Posted April 15, 2021, 11:58 a.m. by Ensign Kesh (Engineer) (Daniel Bupp)
Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dagen Thor (CE) in Engineering - Main Sim
Posted by Ensign Kesh (Engineer) in Engineering - Main Sim
Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dagen Thor (CE) in Engineering - Main Sim
Dagen came on shift with hair ruffled (as usual) and, this morning, a mug of coffee in hand. Yawning, he slipped into his chair. The mug rang off the desktop as it encountered it a touch too hard. Peering through his overnight status reports between sips; self heating mugs were just the thing in keeping coffee at the proper temperature. Dagen so didn’t like coffee or tea cold and this baby that Reia had found was just the thing. Odd that replicators just didn’t add that to the repertoire.Routine maintenance of the mainfolds, skitchy oxygen filtration on Deck 6, JT Droid .. got lost? That was strange. Course and speed deviation from planned route. Hmm. With the mug held up and ready to be used he tapped the comms on the console. =^= Thor to Kesh =^= He hoped it was Kesh on the bridge shift today. Mornings. Not his forte. =^= Where are we headed? =^=
- DagenThe very tiny little squeak that comes through the comm channel sounds like the mystery of the JT Droid was about to be solved, though the immediate voice of the felinoid engineer tells a different story. A story of both heart valves leaping upward when an already nervous state is compounded by the inquiry of a superior officer. No calm start to first bridge shift for this Ensign.
“We are headed to… ooo… the… system labeled J11 dash 23877B. Uncharted, ah.... system, that appears to have a potentially warp-capable civilization. The captain has been notified. No other anomalous matters to report, rrrnth.” Bit of a shaky start, but everything flows smoothly by the end.
->Kesh, Engineering
Dagen’s brow rose. They seem to be springing up in this sector. Was there a kind of parallel technological evolution in this area? He scanned the engine levels and fuel consumption. It was a fascinating thing that while dilithium powered things that the engines yet rolled with deuterium. He sipped at the mug. Steady as she goes, he noted. Not that he expected otherwise there.
=^= Another one. Not too long ago we had a positive contact with a warp civilization. Their warp tech was based on nuclear power. Quite the thing. Messy politics with colonies and pirates and the like. Left them in the hands of diplomats. See what you can get on a long range scan to the system looking for any warp trails based on our computer library of known warp trail types from the races we’ve encountered. See if we get a hit. Power sources outside of their own world? Other planets in the system colonized? Stellar spectroscopy that may hint at dilithium as a resource? =^=
Reia was on the bridge. He could see her station powered. He sent a text note up to her. =^= Walk in the woods after shift? Holodeck 2? Picnic. =^=
- Dagen
“Mnnn, a sufficiently tuned warp field emitter could run on the power output of a nuclear reactor, if it, too, were particularly efficient. Rrrnth.” Kesh interjected after Dagen’s first remarks, the nervous edge to her voice seemingly calmed, now that the subject was on that which she was a keen expert: starship engines.
Her reply to the rest is immediate, “Mmnnrrr, I am not detecting the kind of elevated dilithium levels typically associated with warp-capable species, but that is not necessarily.. ah… telling. We will not be able to pick up definitive information if they are using Romulan or Tholian-type reactors until we get closer. Rrrrnth. I have requested a subspace disruption scan to pick up signs of lesser-used styles of warp engine.” Without senior officer approval, it may take a few minutes to get through the queue of scans being conducted, of course. This information funnels in from the bridge terminal as well, with quite a few annotations for what the caitian considered note-worthy elements of the scan data. She may be a nervous Ensign, but she is very well written.
->Kesh, Engineering
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