Posted by Gamemaster GM (Gamemaster) in Engineering - Main Sim

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dagen Thor (CE) in Engineering - Main Sim

Posted by Gamemaster GM (Gamemaster) in Engineering - Main Sim
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Dagen was riding the waves of being newly married and for this time happy that Chan was on the bridge and he could work undisturbed below decks. He noted they were approaching a nebula. Traditionally that could affect systems but the ship was a tough little ship and was more science related and so better made to handle any such fluctuations. Confident that they were fine as the sensors hadn’t told them differently he was looking at duty schedules.

Then the alarms went off. He visually ‘saw’ the shield strength sink from green into an ugly orange level. 40%?! “What the hell?” he said as he jerked up from his desk and went into the main area of engineering. “Emergency power to shields!” he called out to Bat who was on the controls. “Deeg! Report!”

“Impulse engines in reverse. We’re moving back,” Deeg reported.

Slapping his badge. =^= Thor to Chan. What’s going on up there? What hit us? =^=
- Dagen

OOC: Explanation at this post … https://www.star-fleet.com/core/stf6/genesis/posts/97265/
OOC: Got it. Thanks :)

Kenson

As they moved back the settings resumed a reverse of what they had seen. Seraph reported, “The nebula is affecting the shield harmonics. Their pulses are eroding shield strength.”
Deeg rang in, “We’re safe at a billion and a half kilometres. 1.2 we start feeling it.”
Dagen tapped at the console’s edge with his fingers. “Suggestions?”
Sebastion pushed his glasses up his nose. “What happens if we only go with nav shields?
Bat replied, “don’t think so. If they are pulses from the nebula we should be able to predict them and nullify their effects with a neutralizing pulse through the shield emitters.”

Dagen tapped the console. =^= Thor to bridge. Something for our science crew there. We’ve been looking at the effects of the nebula. Two question for them: One: if we only run nav shields will the nebula negatively affect the ship, and two, can they work out the power and frequency of the pulses to work out a neutralizing pulse through the shield emitters or deflector array to nullify it at a distance? =^=
Dagen, CE

It was not long after that Dagen saw on the display that they had abandoned the nebula and were speeding away on impulse. That alleviates the nebula issue, though he was a little irked at there being no reply from the bridge. But then they retreated so probably it was no issue now. Now he just needed to keep an eye on the impulse engines. They’d not had a workout like this since shakedown so he was watching them carefully.

“Bat, keep an eye on the injectors. I’m sure they are fine but this is a good time to run a low level diagnostic on them to check fuel flow rates and efficiency.”
The Bolian waved back his assent; Dagen was sure he was going to stretch and burst his uniform at some time there. He reminded himself to not take the Bolian bowling in uniform.
- Dagen

=^= Chan to Dagen. Apologies for the delay. we’ve encountered a creature of unknown origin.It bumped us as it passed. We’re now following it=^= Chan reported through the com.

Lieut Chan (Sub DH Robotics)

Dagen was curious and cautious. There were lots of creatures that could move about in space and few of them that they had encountered were particularly benign. Nature had an odd way of looking incredibly beautiful but was also incredibly deadly. As his grandfather used to say, ‘It looks nice but it is out to kill you’. =^= A creature? I hope not an energy sucking planetary sized amoeba like creature. Any surface damage from the .. bump? Residuals? =^= He imagined some kind of energy acidic residue eating away at the hull, or a leftover slime that was like the energy of the nebula wreaking havoc on their systems.
- Dagen

The affected systems were in the background now and Dagen was watching the creature on his console, mirroring the bridge monitor. How ‘was’ that thing moving? It’s not like it had internal engines of sorts but how was it moving? It was past any sense of solar. They were too far out for that, Dagen thought. It had a kind of course. Was it working on gravitic waves of sorts? Idly he tapped out spatial gravitic forces in their region. Was it following anything like a galactic ley line?
- Dagen

The sensors showed something strange. For a few seconds, the creature disappeared from sensors and then appeared about 0.9 light yeats away. Then the speed dropped to 83% light speed and stayed there. Whilst not exactly a warp field, the gravitic forces detected showed that it was working in a similar principle. Somehow, the granitic forces just ahead of the creature stayed higher than the forces at its rear. In fact the gravitic forces at the fore was increasing at such a rate that it literally pulled the creature out of space for the few seconds that it disappeared from sensors. Just before it reappeared, a great gravity vortex of sorts formed at the re-entry point. That pulled the creature back into space but at a distance that could not be covered by a warp drive travelling at warp 9 in a few seconds.

GM

“Well hello you beautiful thing,” Dagen murmured as his eyes flickered over the screen and what just happened. His engineering mind marveled at this. Generating a gravity well ahead of one that pulled it ahead, and a decrease behind and to be propelled ahead .. by means of the gravity to such a degree that it rivaled a high warp? Amazing. It was a small creature that affected this. How did it? Could they do such a thing with a warp engine - that kind of power to generate a gravitic anomaly of that magnitude?

He sought to take in the data at the head of the creature where the gravity well was the greatest. What magnitude was it talking? Was it a pinpoint thing or larger? Was it straining dimensions or manipulating this one? How on earth did it do that organically?! And could they duplicate it mechanically as a new source of propulsion? Certainly warp drive did a similar thing in ‘warping’ space that allowed them to travel at such velocities. But still ..
- Dagen, Eng

Unfortunately, the data they had of the animal was not enough for the computer to propose a credible hypothesis at the moment. The interpretation of the gravity ‘potential’ mechanism was due to the fact that these gravitic phenomena had been recorded before when stars went nova.

GM

Dagen shrugged. Seeing an answer for a whole new propulsion system so early was not realistic. “Don’t worry, little guy. You are my new best friend and I hope we are going to stick close to you to figure this out more. Whether you are sucking this up from the star or what … what I want to know from you is how you get going.” There didn’t seem to be more he could learn just yet, but the idea of it was interesting.

What he wanted to know was how powerful gravity well was ahead just before it ‘jumped’ and how much of a reduction behind.
- Dagen