Posted Dec. 4, 2020, noon by Lieutenant Commander Kord (XO) (David Bennett)
Posted by Gamemaster CockRoach (Gamemaster) in Main Sim - Alien Ship - Engineering
[snip]Entering into the engine room, the pair found six of the female aliens working on a mess of blown out fuse boxes and a tangle of wires in one corner where it seems some kind of fire had earlier broken out but now had been put out and they were in the process of trying to salvage wires and relays. One looked up and pointed to the group, another rose coming over. Dusting off ash and oil like residue on her jump suit. After a moment to process the words the UT translated. =/\= You must be the alien folks the came to help. Quite a difference between you two I must say. =/\= She said looking between Tia and Kord. =/\= Got to admit I never expected to see a what seems a male alien in my life time. =/\= She said in Kord’s direction. Then shrugged =/\= Anyhow you folks must be here to help not let me talk whatever passes for your hearing ability off. Right now we are trying to replace a series of blown relays from the main engine core feed line. A fire broke out earlier but we got that under control. Problem is we some unknown word, perhaps an insult felt we did not need spare parts or wiring hence why we wound up in this situation. Any chance you could get us some gold plated high power transfer capable wiring? As well as a plasma line conduit to these specifications? =/\= She said handing a piece of paper with the alien script on it which would need to be translated by scanning.
GM CockRoach
Tia took the paper with a slight sideways smirk at Kord for the compliments paid to him. Apparently she had good taste in men if even alien species found him intriguing at least.
A quick glance back at the one before her, she nodded. “I am sure we can manage this. I will see what I can do.” She looked back at Kord once more. “You ok here while I get these scanned and beamed to us?” She knew it was a yes but she had to ask anyway. Her tricorder was already scanning the paper to send to the Merri for translation and creation.
Tia CE
Kord smirked ever so slightly.
“You want to leave me alone in a ship full of alien women? What could go wrong?” he said teasingly, “I’m sure I’ll be fine.”
Kord turned to the alien engineer.
“Do you use a reactor configuration that utilizes superheated steam, created by a controlled nuclear reaction, to drive turbines that generate electricity to power your systems?” he asked.
- Kord, XO
It seems the UT didn’t translate Kord’s words well, as the females gave him odd looks in reply, perhaps he should try again.
Scans showed the reactor used a crude lithium matter/antimatter mix chamber reaction. Similar to early warp 1 engines on Earth. The core was stable but power feeds lines were burned out from the reaction chamber into the mess of burned wires and relays. They could be replaced easily enough from basic parts on board the Merrimack once beamed over.
It was less than thirty minutes and Tia was back with two NEs and a couple boxes of parts they managed to get from the list. They had all but one of the hardest pieces to find that didn’t quite make sense. But Tia had grabbed a couple things to use in its place and smiled at Kord as she returned, nudging his shoulder as she passed. “Hope you behaved yourself.” Her soft laughter following her as she went to see what she could help install as quickly as possible to get things going.
Tia CE
Kord had been working on puzzling out the tangles of wires and seeing what could be salvaged.
“On my best behavior.” he said with his hands still amongst the nest of wiring, “They could use some better cable management.”
- Kord, XO
The aliens working with Tia and Kord were soon wrist and elbow deep in replacing wires, relays and other feed lines that had gotten burned out. The process would end up taking a better part of a day or so but by the end of it they had the ship’s core soon ready to initiate a restart power up cycle.
GM CockRoach
Kord went around double checking the reactor shielding and connections.
“At least they don’t use infrareds as reactor shielding.” Kord said absently.
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