Posted May 27, 2020, 4:55 p.m. by Gamemaster Wombat (Gamemaster) (Geoff Joosten)
Posted by Chief Petty Officer Oscar Cameron Cascarrabias Demalia (Engineer (Grouch)) in Main Sim - USS Ogawa Exterior
Oscar smiled as he put the finishing touches on the paint job that he was giving the hull panels which the Starbase personnel were going to replace. They had given him a chromatic indication sprayer, a marked plan, and an instruction to put the indicator spray on every panel which needed to be replaced. When Oscar realized that the panels included the ship’s registry - name and number - he knew exactly what he wanted to do. Technically, he was supposed to use the device to make a small but visible mark on each panel, but they had never set limitations on how much of the spray he was supposed to use. As such, he had made a little bit of mischief.It was akin to what he’d been told when he was supposed to mark up decommissioned vessels back when he worked at the Starfleet Salvage Yard - tag them and move on. The thing was, he discovered that he was so efficient with the job that he had given himself a lot of free time. Being in an isolation suit for practically his entire life had made him quite capable in an EV suit. Since he had spare time, plenty of material, and a way to automate the paint job, he had done a little more than just marking up the vessels. His boss at the Salvage Yard had come in the next morning to discover that there was a USS Van Gogh tagged up like Starry Night, a USS Mozart with the entire chart for the Minuet in G written on it, a USS Torvalds painted to look like it was actually an artificial and pixellated image, and a fourth vessel that had been rechristened the USS King Grouch, GAR-2175, but with perfect Starfleet paint. The first three wound up going to museums as a group display, and Oscar had been displeased to receive a commendation for “creative reuse of inoperable Starfleet materiel”. The fourth was simply stripped and scrapped, but for whatever reason, that was Oscar’s proudest accomplishment.
As such, the Ogawa was fully prepped for panel replacement, and to boot, for the moment, it also had a completely new name. For the moment, the USS Ogawa was now called the USS King Grouch II, GAR-2176. The registry number kind of broke the joke, but he had to honor the original. He sighed loudly as he reached the point where he could see the entirety of his handiwork.
“If this doesn’t cement my reputation, nothing will.”
Oscar Cascarrabias
Engineering Department
From outside the ship, Oscar was more or less isolated from, well everything that was going on inside the station but occasionally he heard something pop up over the comms. Someone was prattling on about needing to find some oysters and then a few moments later someone else was asking engineering for a carpenter. Since when did Starbases need carpenters?
GM Wombat
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