A Bit of Bad News

Posted on Thu Apr 28th, 2011 @ 5:50am by Vice Admiral Quinn Androski

Mission: Episode 2.2 - "Resistance"
Location: Main Engineering, USS Orlando
Timeline: Mission Day 01, 1200

ON: [[Main Engineering, USS Orlando, MD-01, 1200 hours]]

"Are sure that’s the problem?" Jack (NPC) asked.

"Would you stop asking me that, of course I am sure that's the problem," Alistair (PNPC) snapped. "Besides, who is the more experience engineer here?"

Jack look at Alistair before arching an eyebrow at his crewmate. It was true, despite his rather boyish looks; Alistair was 4 years older then Jack and had a few years on him when it came to actually working on a starship.

“Just make sure you don’t get stuck in anything,” Jack smiled.

“I really wish you would let that go already,” Alistair sighed, taking the tool that Jack had handed him. He went to work, tightening a few things before handing it back to Jack.

“Hmm, I think that fixed the problem. What’s the diagnostic say now?”

Jack turned around and called up the diagnostic on the nearby computer screen. It only took a moment for the computer to cycle through affected coupling before delivering its verdict.

“Looks like the boy genius fixed it again,” Jack chuckled.

“Knock it off,” Alistair snapped. “I think its only temporary fix though, have a look in there.”

Jack shrugged and handed the tools to Alistair before poking his head inside the open access panel. He didn’t see anything out of the ordinary at first but then he spotted what Alistair was talking about. A good portion of the EPS line that fed the coupling looked to be blackened and charred.

“Huh, I wonder how that happened?” Jack mused, as he withdrew his head from the access panel.

“My guess is that all that power that we were kicking out before we got the battery systems in place,” Alistair said. “Looks like it fried a good part of the EPS line. I would say we could replace it but that’s probably not a good idea when we are flying around at warp.”

“I’d say not,” Jack said. “I suppose we could it into the secondary grid for the time being, try drawing power from the secondary line.”

“Might have to for the time being,” Alistair nodded. “That might be the only way to stabilize it. Come on, lets get down to engineering and give Lt. Alana the bad news.”

Jack nodded as they headed back down the corridor. “Just one question for you?”

“And whats that?” Alistair asked.

“How did you get stuck again?”

OFF:

All NPCs Played By:

Lieutenant Zekk Alana
Chief Engineering Officer
USS Orlando