Posted by Cadet Connor Washburne (Engineer) in Main Sim - Engineering

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Dael Stadi (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Engineering

Posted by Cadet Connor Washburne (Engineer) in Main Sim - Engineering
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=^= Rodier to Stadi and Sickbay, affirm. We’ll need some tight security in the Shuttlebay, but we can make it work. The mess is right there as well, if it’s needed. Heading down to Sickbay now. Rodier out. =^=

~ Lt. jr. gr. Henry Rodier - COS (crosspost)

=^= Sickbay to Stadi and Rodier - acknowledged. We’ll see you in a few minutes, Lieutenant Rodier.=^=

[Cadet Ven Miya] (crosspost)

=^= Washburne to Stadi. Understood. In route to Engineering.=^=

Washburne was out the door before he finished speaking into the comm. No rest for Starfleet he thought.

|Cadet Connor Washburne|

Dael noticed Washburne enter Engineering out of the corner of his eye and looked up from his diagrams.

“Cadet, looks like we’ve got an assignment from the higher ups. Looks like a colony is needing an evac, and they’ve given us the pleasure of being their ride. We’re looking at around 385 colonists. I’m thinking of using Cargo Bays 1 and 2 on Deck 6 as the place to put them, giving them access to Sickbay and potential overflow to either the mess or shuttlebay there.” Dael pulled the schematics he had been looking at on his console onto the larger screen in Engineering. He pointed towards the areas he was describing as he continued. “We’ll have to make accommodations for these people, moving our storage from these areas to the other cargo bays, but I think we can make it work. My biggest concern right now is making sure they have some sort of livable area, I’m thinking looking in our storage for or replicating some basic structures so they have a place to sleep and have privacy. I don’t know how long we’ll have them here for. I’m assigning NE Burton and NE Doohan with carrying that out.”

Dael gave a nod to those two members of his team, both of which gave a similar response before breaking off to work on their assigned task. He turned back to Washburne. “The reason I called you down here Cadet is because I know you have a background with transporters technology and theory. We’re looking at a high capacity situation and while I haven’t heard it as a fact, they may need to get off that planet in a hurry. We should at least try to have a plan ready, because believe me, complications like that come up all the time. It’s our job to prepare for them, and I want to hear what your suggestions and ideas are to prepare our systems.”

Lt. jg Dael Stadi, CE

Connor mentally logged every detail the Lt. gave him. He knew very well that the smallest piece of information could make a world of difference. He was caught slightly off guard when the Beta-zoid asked for his suggestions. He had fully expected to just be given orders like the other engineers had been. Focus on the task at hand he thought, shaking it off.

“Yes Sir. I’ve been researching the benefits of relaying persons through transporters in the event of an emergency. Normally with mass emergency beaming there’s an inherent risk, because you have to choose between rematerializing them all at once which tasks the system and can be dangerous, or rematerializing them in groups which takes time. But if we link the transporters together two and two, we can mass beam up two large groups at a time, and rematerialize them in smaller groups at the relay transporter. The down side is it is going to draw a significant amount of power, so I would not recommend doing it if we can afford not to.”

The cadet finished explaining and stood ready to carry out whatever orders he would be given.

|Cadet Connor Washburne, Engineering|

Dael listened to the cadet’s suggestions, running through the various scenarios in his head. “Good, so instead of having our four transporter rooms individually taking up groups, you’re looking at using them as one giant transporter for a higher load. It could work, but I do see the power draw being an issue. That and making sure we don’t lose anyone in such a mass transport.”
He gave the situation some more thought before adding. “I agree, I think it’s a little risky so we should have it on standby if the situation calls for it. I’m going to make sure we have pattern enhancers ready to set up if the colony’s situation allows for it as well. Get it done, I’ll be here in case you need any support. Just make sure it won’t overload the phase transition coils, we don’t want to lose our transporters and have to do the evac all by shuttle because we overdid it.”

-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, CE

“Understood Sir.” The cadet hurried off to begin his work. He had never done practiced this, but he understood the fundamental ideas behind it and felt confident he could accomplish it.

|Cadet Connor Washburne, Engineer|

OOC: Hey Dillon! Great thinking with the problem at hand. Normally we’d roleplay a little bit of making the adjustments, both for fun of keeping a thread going with interactions and for the possibility of the GM throwing some things at us, for example: “Dael took out his hyperspanner out of the toolkit, trying his hand at rerouting some of the power from the auxiliary systems to boost the output the phase transition coils could handle.” Gives the GM an idea of what system might blow up… I mean, have a malfunction if it goes wrong, or that you might need to take a look at another subsystem. Or that it worked great!
Feel free to continue doing that here if you like, or we’ve also got a separate thread started by our illustrious Captain for Engineering here: Main Sim- Main Engineering-Arriving at the Colony when we arrive on site of our mission (Academy ships move fast with our sims!) so you can also jump ahead there instead and see how everything goes! Let me know if you need a hand with anything too, that’s what we’re here for.

IC:
Dael nodded back to Connor in response to the acknowledgement. It was going to be a busy few days preparing for the refugees. He keyed in some more schematics into his panel and started doing the logistical nightmare in his head of moving the cargo bay materials around. It would be tighter than he liked it looked like, he preferred to have an even amount of distribution among the four bays, but manageable. At least that’s what he hoped. Looking up some basic survival structures that could hopefully house the individuals with some bedding and privacy, he forwarded those designs he thought appropriate to NE Doohan and NE Burton. He had already delegated that task to them, but he wanted to make sure that everything was ready on time. It was only a matter of time before the ship would have an extra three hundred and eighty or so extra people, taxing the power and resources for who knew how long. But first things first, get them off the planet and into a prepared space. He just hoped the situation wasn’t as dire as to require the Cadet’s transporter link. Best to always be prepared though, and if the younger man needed any assistance in putting it together, Dael was already pulling up more information on the ship’s transporter systems to refresh on. So much to do, so little time.

-Lt. jg Dael Stadi, Chief Engineer