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Engineering Check in

Posted June 1, 2022, 8:33 p.m. by Lieutenant Commander Dagen Thor (CE) (Gene Gibbs)

Posted by Ensign Kalos Onovren (Engineer) in Engineering Check in

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Dagen Thor (CE) in Engineering Check in

Posted by Ensign Kalos Onovren (Engineer) in Engineering Check in
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Beaming aboard the genesis Kalos immediately made his way to engineering to find the chief engineer.
Arriving in engineering it was pretty easy to spot the lieutenant. Approaching, Kalos said “Lieutenant commander Thor? permission to come aboard?”

-Kalos Onovren

Dagen was pouring over shift assignment scheduling. It had zero point to him in an engineering perspective and was taking him away from what he loved to do. He supposed it was a necessary evil to keep everyone on the top of their game by knowing each shift and what they did. That was the easy part for rotations. The harder part was making sure that the various skill sets were optimized.

He was vaguely aware that there were crew rotations and more happening. It was an additional focus element that he would need to include, but that was something to come.

“I’d say you already are if you’ve made it this way,” Dagen said with a smile, running a hand through his mop of salt and pepper hair that just didn’t submit to any real control. That gave him a moment to recall names. He stood and extended his hand. “Welcome aboard. That is Kalos?” he asked. It was one out of three people coming in this swap and the only one who as decidedly Betazoid. The other was female and the other Tellarite.

“Let’s go for a walk,” he said, moving away from the desk with a good excuse to take a break. “You are fresh out of the Academy?” he asked, trying to remember the bit he skimmed. He had a better look at Kalos. He was skinny. His mother would have a field day with him. “What ship class were you assigned to there?”
Dagen, CE

OOC: Bump .. Gene

OOC: oops, sorry about that.

“Yep, Kalos Onovren” he said following Dagen
“right again, fresh out of the academy. but I like to think that no one can tell because of my previous work, hopefully I wont come across as too green.”
People had thought many things about Kalos but rarely did people find him skinny. Granted he was slightly below the average weight for people his hight.
“Just transferred off the challenger, picked up a good deal of field experience but I’m still not used to the way you do things here in the military.”

-Ensign Kalos Onovren, Engineer

They passed the master systems display where the large oval table held an overlay of the Manhattan. It looked like it had Deck 13 up. Mainly those decks were hard to differentiate but for one bearing the nacelles and deuterium storage. Deeg and Angel were arguing over power distribution from the Impulse drive to the computer core as a critical backup, which it was, however one of them - Angel by the sounds of it - thought that it was insufficient in necessary power flow and required a retrofit of the plasma conduits. They passed before he could hear what Deeg’s rebuttal to that was.

They approached the secondary sensor array that appeared to be in pieces. “You have me intrigued now. Tell me about your previous work and how it used to be.”
- Dagen, CE

OOC: Manhattan?

IC: “I was the head of spaceframe design as a civilian for the Far Star class development project. But being a civilian agency contracted by Starfleet my team and I didn’t have to follow the same rules. Or at least not as strict of rules. And because the environment was more controlled in space dock than here in deep space we felt more comfortable taking risks, especially since we knew that ship like the back of our hands.”
Kalos continued, a sad look passing across his face, “But there was an accident and I was injured. the accident was the fault of one of the people I managed, but we were like family on that team and he really needed the work. He had been taken hostage by the Cardassians during the dominion war and never returned to us, but after the war was over he escaped on a stolen cardiassian shuttle. The engineering job provided stability for him and he was only sixteen. I took the fall for the accident and was asked to leave so I decided to join Starfleet as an engineer.”
kalos paused, “It was a big change moving into Starfleet, having to follow stricter protocols and rules.”

-Ensign Onovren, engineer

Dagen laughed. “Different, not stricter, at least I didn’t see that. This,” he said with an expansive sweep of his arm, “is naval routine and regulations. Maybe I don’t notice it with swimming around in that pond for almost two decades, but when I was at the Mars shipyards the safety regs were pretty strict. But then I was coming off of a time away and doing contract engineering work on OP42. The change was a .. culture shock.”

He glanced at Kalos. “What was Far Class and that project?” Dagen had been outed on his own account after belting an admiral, but Kalos had, curiously been shifted in a different way. He had not heard of this project, though he had been immersed in his own with the Genesis.
- Dagen, CE

OOC: the Far Star class ship is just something I made up for backstory but I have been working on specs for it and plan on trying top get it commissioned. I can create a side Simm if you want me to explain it.
OOC: Cool. For now let’s see where the conversation goes here :) .. Gene

IC: “It was actually quite the unique project, the Far Star has a total of 10 interchangeable “mission modules” six for the saucer and and four for the engineering hull. but without anything installed she was just a spaceframe with a bridge, some recreation facilities, a deflector dish, main engineering and warp nacelle plus the crew quarters for the crew compliment required to operate the ship with no modules. I was just responsible for the spaceframe and Bridge but-“
Suddenly Kalos stopped realizing he had gotten carried away and might be boring Dagen.
“If you want we can get a drink after my shift and I can explain it in more detail” he said, his face flushed, embarrassed.

-Ensign Kalos Onovren, Engineer

Dagen’s mind wheeled about to fathom this and the design engineering for it. That would require a lot of load balancing for engines and thrust and more. “How did you balance the modules with the structural integrity fields necessary to keep it together? What was the vision for them? Close in system work? Service and support?”

Kalos’ glance would show a considerable interest in Dagen’s expression. “Tell me more. That is one ambitious project.”

Dagen, CE

“Well since you insist” Kalos said grinning, finally beginning to feel at home.
“the spaceframe was designed not to need SIF generators and was only equipped with three. The original design is loosely based on the old intrepid class ships. Since those were relatively small ships we didn’t need much. But to make the ship extra strong each module has to meet specific requirements such as having a SIF generator installed as well as other various things like its own independent life support, living quarters, and power grid to name a few. each module would be installed and synced to the main computer so the ship could calibrate the SIF fields together. but these ships weren’t designed to have separable modules. its not like the galaxy class where the saucer can detach and attach at a moments notice. Each module was fairly permanent and needed starbase facilities to remove. the engines were handled the same way: the FTL team designed a spec for Far Star class nacelles varying from type one to type eleven engines, where type one were the least powerful and eleven the most. an empty weight would be calculated and and a particular type of engine selected with factors such as mission profile, desired top speed, desired range, etcetera, being accounted for during the selection process. However the engines were even less modular and would require nothing short of a refit to replace. as for the trimming and the weight and balance, specs for weight and CG coordinates were given to Starfleet so they could create modules that would balance the ship out. but what little error was left was accounted for by the computer which would calibrate everything using the variable geometry warp field that was unique to the intrepid class and not the Far Star Class. dont ask me how that works, all I know is that the guys in software development created this nifty bit of code that did the trick. As for the modules themselves, they can be anything you want from hi-tech science or engineering labs to something as mundane as storage. but they were even designs for special extreme habitat units for diplomatic missions as well as any number of recreational, tactical, medical, or even extra auxiliary craft and their support facilities.” there was a pause indicating he had finished.
“Does that answer all your questions?” Kalos asked

-Kalos Onovren, Engineer

Dagen laughed. “Enough for a brief introduction of the project.”

They walked along, circling the warp core. Dagen glanced at the displays. Bat, the portly Bolian, passed them with a wave and uncharacteristic silence. He must be late in his weekly inspections to be one of ‘few words’. “When I started a long time ago on the Columbia at the Academy I thought I would be something like, well, Bat there. A good engineer doing his thing. I would neve have suspected that I’d have been a part of a ship design and construction project like the Genesis here. It’s quite the thing to walk the girders of a ship in space.”

He paused and looked around. “Is the ship designed to fly without any modules? Or partial modules? Are they fixed or can they be adjusted. You had said the ship is configurable for the warp and other systems though it sounds like a change in one requires a change in the other.”
- Dagen

“She will fly without any modules but no faster than warp two or she will tear herself apart. To be structurally sound at warp she has to be fitted with a full compliment of modules, however they dont have to have a designated function, they can be labeled for future expansion or cargo or even just be an empty shell. And what do you mean adjusted? Yes a change in modules would require the ship to recalibrate all of its major systems.”

-Ensign Kalos Onovren

OOC: Sorry .. on holidays this week and time totally got away on me ..
IC:

“What I meant was that there is a significant difference on energy requirements, artificial gravity and inertial dampers, to name a little, between say a module for additional quarters or cargo and a mostly unmanned, but massively populated module for sensor equipment, weapons or computer cores.” He shook his head trying to get his own head around it. “That must have been so complex to balance. I love the idea. It allows for a great deal of specialization or versatility as one wanted on a single frame. One could craft a ship as needed for exploration or even emergency evacuations.” He paused both in talk and movement and leaned on a rail overlooking the thrumming warp core. “It’s an amazing thing to walk a corridor that is nothing more than a frame, force fields between you and the stars and planet below, and knowing that what you’re building will one day see incredible things.”
Dagen, CE

“Amazing Indeed…” Kalos trailed off Gazing into the warp core, lost in thought, hypnotized by the pulsating blue light.
shaking himself out of it a look of longing briefly crossed his face before he turned to apologize for his lapse in focus, “Sorry, I just miss that project a lot and the people I worked with.”

OOC: no problem I have been super busy this last couple of weeks too

-Kalos Onovren, Engineer

Dagen clapped him on the back in a way hopefully encouraging. “New thing. Boldly go and all that,” he said. “Well, provided we keep the engines running that is.” He too watched the lights. Utterly a technical fabrication to give audial and visual representation of what was happening to accompany the readouts but it was still not unlike watching waves wash ashore on a lake. “I agree. It’s hard to say farewell to others and start over again. I thought I’d always have been on the Discovery, helping out there as an instructor on that Academy ship. Then I thought the same on the Draco. OP42 was the hardest. I made a lot of friends there.” He smiled. “Some of them were even above the law.” He paused. “Some.”

“I’d say what is your field of expertise as a way of fit you into that slot aboard, but I’m prone to asking what you are most interested in working in?”
- Dagen, CE


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