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Side sim- Engineering (Pop in if you'd like)

Posted Oct. 4, 2021, 3:46 a.m. by Lieutenant Junior Grade Cleolet (Chief Engineer) (Nathan Derricutt)

Posted by Senior Chief Petty Officer Karl Johansson (Engineering Petty Officer) in Side sim- Engineering (Pop in if you’d like)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Cleolet (Chief Engineer) in Side sim- Engineering (Pop in if you’d like)

Posted by Senior Chief Petty Officer Karl Johansson (Engineering Petty Officer) in Side sim- Engineering (Pop in if you’d like)
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Cleolet was never one to sit in an office, she had always been hands on. That was how liked it, even with her promotion and being one of the first Caitians in star fleet. she still liked to get her hands dirty. She wore the standard red uniform dress of engineering. while she could chose to wear trouser and some might say it would be more appropriate. she liked the freedom the dress provided, after all when you were crawling round access hatches and Jeffries tubes, no one tended to look.

But right now she wasn’t crawling through hatches or getting her hands dirty. She was sitting in her office looking over the suggestion of her engineers. Her tail swaying gently side to side as she read. With the introduction of the new transporters the ship had a power to spare, power that could be used a hundred different ways. So she had opened it up to her engineers and the rest of the crew, who where interested, on what to do with that power. She had her eye on increasing shield or phaser power, but comparing ideas was part of the fun.

She liked a good brain storm and so far her engineers had come up trumps, to use a humans phrase. And she knew the ideas weren’t finished yet. To that end she had left an open door policy in place. if someone needed a chat or had an idea, she wanted them to feel comfortable enough to come to her.

Liuet j.g Cleolet (Chief Engineer)

A head popped from the edge of the doorway almost completely sideways. It was the face of Karl Johansson, a plain-looking man with a kindly smile almost constantly fixed on his face “Morning Chief” He said, his Scandinavian accent thicker today “Desk looks good on you” He’d only know Cleolet a little as a junior Officer during his few months on the Sentinel but he suspected she would do fine at her new job “Thinking of new power allocations?” The seemingly disembodied head asked.

SCPO Karl - Eng

Cleolet looked up from her pad and smiled “Chief, I still have to get used to that” she said before turning her chair to face the door and Karl “You can come in you know.” she said pushing the chair opposite her out with her foot/paw.

His smile widened and he seemed to half fall to the side but caught the side of the doorway and turned it into a half swinging motion, moving to the seat and sitting down.

“And yes I’m looking at the options. Do you have any ideas?” she asked knowing he probably did.

Liuet j.g Cleolet (CE)

“I have a few knocking around the old noggin” He said carefully crossing his legs “I haven’t had the opportunity to read the new power change reports, Spent half the night crawling through deck 4 fixing that grav issue” He said in an amused tone “I wasn’t involved with the new transporter setup, how much are we getting?” He asked, usually he would have read up by now but small issues had been piling up and he didn’t like for them to become big issues. Besides that’s what officers were for, dealing with the big issues.

SCPO Karl - Eng

“10% give or take” Cleolet said simply “It’s mad how much the old transporters took. I mean the new ones where a pain to install, but you can’t argue their efficiency. Even if it did take half the engineering staff to install them.” she added passing a pad over to Karl

“Its a list of suggestion so far” she said after a short pause. the pad contained a list of things from the ingenious like using it as an emergency power shunt, to the slightly less important, like using it to increase cooking times in the galley. The usual suspect where there as well impulse engines, shields, phaser and so on. it was safeto sa the power could be sued a hundred different ways.

“So what are your ideas” she asked

Lieut j.g Cleolet (CE)

Karl nodded slowly as he read through the list “Well I guess the choice is if you want to give the power boost entirely to a single system or spread it out among several key systems, it’s a bigger boost than I thought but then of course the old Transporter system was a hungry beastie” He tapped the device absently as he considered “I’m assuming the thought of using it as a reserve has come up?” He didn’t wait for an answer “Most ship operations don’t really need a boost all the time but perhaps we can set up a new emergency reserve for certain key systems to be poured into when needed bypassing the ordinary time it takes for reserves to be used” He shrugged “I don’t have any math or a working model for this but I think it’s sound in theory”

SCPO - Karl

“Like an emergency reserve. something we can pour into a specific system if we need to on the fly. That was one of my ideas” Cleolet said simply punching something into her computer the turning the screen to face Karl “It’s a good idea, I’ve already started work on the calculations. but it might take a lot of work. Finding somewhere to store it and finding a way to activate it instantly is just the start. we’d have to run tests on the systems to make sure we didn’t overload them. but if it worked, it would be one heck of a surprise in a fight ” she added pausing for a moment. if Karl was to read the equation on screen, he would find the maths to be sound but it was also clear that unless they came up with some way of managing the extra energy it would indeed fry what every system it was fed into. The systems would handle it to a certain point, they had built in safeties but after that point that was it, the extra power would cause an overload.

“Any ideas?” Cleolet asked

Lieut j.g Cleolet (CE)

Karl nodded as he read “Yes it is a problem, perhaps we can ask the Bridge to allow us some time for stress tests next time we’re drydocked, see how much additional energy each system can handle, perhaps find a way to temporarily disable the safeties if the need ever arises” He frowned “We may need to build a secondary energy coupling and perhaps something to discharge excess energy if it becomes neccecary”

SCPO Karl - ENg

Cleoelt nodded in agreement “We might be able to discharge it along the ships hull, most energy discharges are dissipated that way, so it shouldn’t be much of an issue. Stress test are a good idea, I’ll ask when I get the chance. But that’s just one idea, where do you think extra power is needed?” she asked, she valued Karl’ opinion he was a good man and a great engineer, in fact Cleolet would put money down that if he wasn’t a non-com and had a commission, he would have been chief engineer over her.

Lieut j.g Cleolet (CE)


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