Posted May 9, 2021, 9:53 p.m. by Lieutenant Robert Mason (Chief Engineer) (Joe P)
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When Oscar walked into Engineering, he got some quizzical looks. Oscar looked at the nearest NE, who technically outranked him but obviously was more than willing to defer to somebody with far more experience.
“Camera crew. We’re supposed to show some reporters around the non-sensitive stuff on the ship,” Oscar said. “Okay, everybody, security mode on all consoles and panels, we’ve got a civilian in house!”
After what happened to the Enterprise-D, a lot of engineers had insisted on installing protocols to make sure that what happened on that Galaxy-class ship couldn’t happen anywhere else. Signal interruption, visual scattering, and symbol obstruction were quite useful. If only the Prometheus hadn’t had its protocols compromised, the Romulans would never have been able to hijack it. Once Oscar was certain that everyone was ready, he walked into the Engineering section.
“And this, if you would believe it, is the warp core. Somehow, this baby can push us to the same warp speeds as quite a few other ships in the fleet, even though it looks like we ripped it out of a ship from the Romulan War and just shoved it in because it’s what fits.”
Oscar Cascarrabias
EngineeringSena took furious notes as she scanned the room, eyes transfixed on the warp core for sometime before turning back to Oscar, “You.. don’t find the look of the warp core aesthetically pleasing? How would you have designed it differently?”
GM Wombat
“I don’t do design - that’s for higher ups. It’s just that vertical warp cores have been what we’ve been using since they retrofitted the Excelsior-class, and they were proven to be more efficient for a very long time. Suddenly, Starfleet Engineering gets this crazy idea in their head that they might be able to use the dilithium better if they try horizontal designs again, and so here we are. It’s not like they couldn’t have made a vertical core work in this rig - just look at the Intrepid-class.”
Oscar paused for a second.
“Honestly, though, since this ship warped here instead of being built on site, it’s not like it doesn’t perform as advertised - at least for now.”
Oscar Cascarrabias
EngineeringSena scribbled down more notes in her PaDD as she continued to follow Oscar around, hanging off of his every word. “Uh huh uh huh, Tell me more about the pros and cons of the…” She made a cross, “Up and down versus side ways. Tell me more about that.... What do you think the reason was? Is it just efficiency or is it also space savings?”
GM Wombat
“Space. We’ve known for a while that a vertical warp core more efficiently allows the reaction to be channeled into the warp conduits, and for the reaction energy to be more effectively converted,” Oscar said. “I haven’t had a chance to look inside the casing, but I’m pretty sure that this horizontal core is actually a bunch of vertical cores in sequence.”
Oscar was deliberately lying to the reporter just for a laugh. He knew well enough that there was no practical reason for the difference other than what would fit in the hull. Moreover, the horizontal placement made the core ejection safer, given its placement and the general nature of the vessel. The thing was, he had a feeling that, unlike him, the reporters had either not been given a manual for the Nightingale-class before coming aboard the new Ogawa, or, also unlike him, they hadn’t done their due diligence and read the manual. He was almost tempted to say that they got all of their deuterium from the replicator systems just for a laugh.
Oscar Cascarrabias, Engineering
Oscar thought for a second. “Honestly, though, if you want to really see the biggest difference between the Nightingale-class and other Starfleet vessels, you’re going to need an external view. Can that gear record holographic projections, or do your filters do something funny with artificial environments?”
Oscar Cascarrabias, Engineering
Sena thought for a moment as she furiously started to keep notes documenting everything Oscar said as if he was the sole authority on engineering specifications. She looked as if he could tell her that the entire ship was EMHs and she would believe him. “Oh… well I am not sure. Do you have external footage? Like a repair drone flying over the hull in something dramatic?” She waved her hand, “Oh if I can bring that back… I would be so in good with the boss. He is a real artist you know. Demanding but… artistic.”
GM Wombat
“You know it’s quite funny you mention that,” Lieutenant Mason said in a helpful tone from somewhere behind Sena. He passed behind her, and then stood in front of her off to the side, so that the three of them would form a closed group.
“I’ve just come from a briefing where I made a very similar suggestion to the Captain. If you have good enough recording equipment, I was thinking it would be very dramatic for you to capture an exterior shot of Ogawa as it jumped to warp. It might take some effort to coordinate but if your equipment is good, it would look spectacular. Like, rising trumpet fanfare type stuff. Especially with that whole nacelle geometry thing we’ve got going on. But we’d have to plan that very carefully, of course, depending on how you planned on recording it. Exactly what kind of recording equipment did you bring on board?”
Bob said this all in the same neutral, trying-to-be-helpful tone throughout, just like he did in the briefing room. Even though everyone in the briefing room knew right away what the real point of the suggestion was, nobody actually expressed disapproval of the plan or ordered him not to try it…
– Robert Mason, CE
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