Posted by Fleet Captain Drudoc Andone (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim [Engineering]: All or Nothing
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With the minutes ticking down the adjustments were made barely in time with less then ten minutes to spare. They were as ready as they could be to accept the dying protomatter’s energy to harness it to hopefully return home.

GM CockRoach

Caelian winced as the back of his head kissed the bulkhead, but the overwhelming sense of relief washed the pain away as he set his spanner down. The isolinear array hummed before him, indicator lights letting him know that it was operating as expected. It would have to be. Grunting the heavy panel back into place, the engineer snagged his toolkit and began to wriggle backward out of the jeffries tube. It was sheer willpower that kept him from collapsing once he was back in main engineering.

=^=Weir to Jackson,=^= he gasped, slapping his comm badge. =^=What’s your status?=^=

=^=Jackson here. The deflector is primed and ready, boss. No issues to report.=^=

Caelian nodded, tapped his badge again. =^=Weir to L’Nel. Status.=^=

=^=Assuming no further distractions,=^= the Vulcan’s voice came back dryly, =^=I am ready. All personnel have been cleared from the surrounding area.=^=

=^=Acknowledged.=^= Shaking his head at the host of numbers and equations crashing around in his head, Caelian dragged himself to his feet and keyed up a nearby console. After checking his work both visually and with a computer-aided diagnostic, he sent a quick message to V’alura to let her know that they were prepared.

=^=Weir to Bridge,=^= he called finally with a sigh, =^=Captain, we’re about as ready as we can be here. Remember, our integrity measures will only give us about five minutes after we begin collecting energy before we either need to use it or dump it. Safe hunting.=^=
—Caelian Weir, Engineer—

=/\= Understood Ensign, good work =/\= She said.

A second later Drudoc’s voice came over ship wide. =/\= Attention all hands brace for a possible rough ride, we’re about to attempt to harness protomatter energy to return to our home. Secure all stations and standby. =/\= Andone said.

Drudoc Andone CO

A few minutes later the ship shuddered and power sky rocketed off the charts, it was beyond the measurements of known science. It seems their timing had both been on point, but also bad, they had not only captured one dying protoform but THREE. Immediately the ‘thought drive’ kicked into gear and there was the impossible reading of actual movement beyond again any measurement. Systems began to blow out and consoles blew in sparks. The whole ship shuttered under the colossal energy it was somehow holding together within itself.

Then just as it seemed things would literally explode around them the shuddering and sparks ended and all the lighting on the ship died out except for emergency lighting and life support.

GM CockRoach

For Miz’uki she had been at the main center console of Engineering when everything went down she had held on for dear life and her fur was standing on end afterward as things settled down for the first time since this whole escapade began a smile broke across Miz’uki’s face and she fell back onto her tail She began laughing “well That was....New” she giggled “Alright lets get main power back on line and figure out what progress this little experiment made us!” she said picking herself back up

Miz’uki