Posted by Lieutenant Kalika Darz (Chief of Security) in Into Dark Space

Posted by Lieutenant Mike Stone (Chief Engineer) in Into Dark Space

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Mike didn’t want to get too gloomy. “I’d like to inspect one more node, I guess we could split to cover the ground quicker if we each go down one hallway, but I think we should stick together for now. See what’s the situation down one hall then the next one. If both are also dead, then I think best action would be to reconnect the first node that’s working again with the second one, or see if there’s a break or something like that....”

He knew it was important to check things out, but he also didn’t want to just walk around the ship and just assess things. He know the situation was bad enough. It was about time something was done as well, even if it was just bringing a few halls more online and functional.

Lt. Mike Stone, CE

Kristi almost held her breath as he recommended they should split up. Thankfully, he decided staying together was a wiser course. She relaxed inside and nodded. “We can check that one first,” she pointed down the hall behind her. “Then that one over there.” Her hand waved to the one back behind him. “And I agree. If they are fine, we start at the beginning and one by one get things running. If they are all tagged like this, it should be relatively straightforward.”

As she turned to head towards the panel on her side, she frowned. “What do you mean ‘disappeared’? How can someone disappear on a ship?” The idea that dead critters weren’t the only thing they would find, tightened her chest a bit. Afterall, a small rodent was one thing. A crewmember was a completely different story all together.

Ensign Kristi

“Left it is then.” Mike said. As they walked he explained a bit about the dissapearances. “Well acording to our ship’s records i think over 60 people are missing, that were supposed to be on our roster. I think there might also have been some administrational error here and there, but truth is, for a few dissapearances our teleporter was responsible. We learned that transporting up to 3 people at once is perfectly safe, but any more then that and the matrix buffer overloads and simply… forgets what he held. We’re not sure what all went missing, but we suspect there has been a few crewmembers amongst other things. ”

He realised their conversation took a rather dark direction. If he had a better singing voice, he’d start to sing ‘Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to work we go....’ luckily for Kristi’s ears he had enough self control and easily suppressed that wish to sing.

“Man, that sure was a nice job. If the next one was fixed as well, we could be done with this section before noon.”

Lt. Mike Stone, CE

Kristi listened as Mike talked about missing crewmen. A nervous laugh filled her throat, “Remind me to stick to shuttles.” The idea of being mixed up, it even lost COMPLETELY, during a transporter accident suddenly scared her to her core. “Yet they keep you in space,” she murmured under her breath.

“What was that?” Mike asked not catching the last part of what she said compleately. “I actualy like shuttles a lot. Definately a prefered travel method over our teleporter.”

He wasn’t so sure why he used plural for shuttles. USS Viking only had a singular fully functional shuttle. Second one was able to fly, though he wouldn’t want to risk entering a planet’s orbit for sure. The third one was mostly stripped for parts for the other two and definately required a lot of work before it would fly again, if ever.

She wondered who had done what that was so terribly horrible to render an entire vessel exiled into space, away from maintainance and refitting.

As she neared the next panel to check, she smiled for him once more. “Here’s to not having to order in for dinner,” she laughed and knelt down. Settling her box beside her, she began to unfasten the panel
Ensign Kristi O’Larria
Engineer

While Kristi was busy with the panel, Mike took his tricorder and started to record power readings.

Lt. Mike Stone, CE

((To keep from having to figure out how to tie this in, I am going to halt this and auto that Mike and Kristi call it quits because the shift is over and Mike is needed back in Engineering. When the Sim is ready, and GM is ready, we will come back to this point (as in ‘so this is where we were last’ and continue so the Sim can tie in.... till then I will BUMP to keep this active so readers can catch up at that time..... Meli))

Sounds cool. There was one thing i wanted to squeese in, but it can be postponed, no worries.
Miha
((Post it above the oocs and we can play out what it was, then ‘call it a day’ so we actually leave the corridor …. no worries))