Posted by Fleet Captain Drudoc Andone (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim [Holodeck 3]: Faster Than the Speed of Thought… Maybe
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=/\= Get who you need Ensign, if though you don’t think you can secure this in time we do got the Slipstream drive at the ready too =/\= Andone said

Drudoc Andone CO

V’alura paused in her work to salute Caelin and offer one last encouraging smile before he slipped out of the holodeck. She looked to Minifayth and offered the young lifeform another smile, one that did not quite reach her eyes. “I won’t lie to you, I’m scared silly right now, but that’s all the more motivation to get this right.” She asked the computer to create a chair next to her that is suitable for Minifayth’s size. “The thing to remember when scared is that I’m not alone. And now, neither are you. Together we’ll forge ahead.”

She stepped back from her console to breathe in, then out, through her nose. She repeated the motion one more time, and muttered an old Vulcan meditation mantra taught to her years ago. “As they say in the entertainment business, the show must go on.” V’alura stepped back to her console and alternated between ironing out her program, various calculations and monitoring her many screens. The programing was easy, she wrote her PhD. thesis on starship automation after all. The calculations less so. She did all she could, estimating the limits of the systems involved and in turn plugging that into her program.

She worked straight until the very last second, then turned her gaze to the terminal screens before her. “Alright, little one. The moment you or I feel like everything’s going to hell in a handbasket we pull the plug and activate the failsafe.”

Ensign Belmont (Science)

As things were as ready here as they were going to be, MiniFayth took her spot on the minichair nodding a bit. She looked back at the readings. “..I do not know for certain but I believe the second of the three is the first to begin going into death and rebirth.” She said. “..We got less then ten of your minutes left.”

GM CockRoach

As if the protoform’s words were somehow prophetic, an alert chimed on V’alura’s console to let her know that the modifications they’d all worked so hard on were ready. It was do-or-die time… hopefully without the latter.
—Caelian Weir, Engineer—

A moment 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

V’alura ensured MiniFayth was secure in her chair before creating a second chair to strap herself into. Every second felt like a minute. It all came down to a tortuous waiting game. Her left hand was trembling, but V’alura was too focused on the console screens before her to notice.

”..Its happening!” MiniFayth said in wonder looking at the readings then as all THREE protomatter forms died almost at once and began to give rebirth and their energy was collected.

“You’ve gotta be sh-” V’alura rapidly plugged new equations into her console. They weren’t expecting this kind of power! She swore a long string of curses. She needed more time! Just a few more seconds. Please let her make the adjustments in time!

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

Darkness. Sharp pain all across her bottom and lower back. She blinked, and said a quiet swear before pulling herself up into a sitting position. She recalled the the sudden sparks and a flare of light before the holodeck was overwhelmed by an energy surge and triggered the emergency shut-down within the room and de-materializing everything created within. Feeling like a new-born calf, V’laura stood on shaky legs in total darkness. She rubbed the small of her back but it didn’t make the pain feel any less. “Little one?” V’alura called out. “Crap on a stick. Computer? Open the holodeck doors.”

Nothing. “Well. . . crap. Little One?” She hoped MiniFayth was okay. Hell, she hoped her program worked and that no one was hurt when the ship attempted to vent the excess energy. =^= Engineering? This is V’alura in Holodeck 3. Are you all alive? =^=

Ensign Belmont (Science)