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“Did…” L’Nel’s voice was as blackened as his uniform. “Did we succeed?”

Caelian nodded, and it seemed to soothe the Vulcan. He hadn’t the heart to tell the other man that he didn’t know. As he hauled himself into an access hatch, Caelian wondered the very same. With the ship completely dead in space, and with no means of communication with anyone else, he really had no way of knowing. The thought that they’d just blown every relay on the ship just to go nowhere was sobering. But no, it had to have worked! Otherwise, all this had been a waste.

Once he’d ratcheted the adjacent bulkheads shut to contain the fire, Caelian returned to his friend. With luck, the fire would consume all the oxygen in the module and smother itself. If not? Well, they’d burn that bridge when they came to it. If nothing else, it would buy the repair teams time to restore the ship’s systems and hopefully get fire control back online.

“Let’s see how bad this is,” Caelian murmured as he knelt next to the Vulcan, taking L’Nel’s head gingerly in his hands. “Assuming, that is, I can remember my Starfleet field medical training.”

L’Nel managed to give him a pointed look. “Your bedside manner is not encouraging to that effect, Ensign.”

“No one asked you. Now hold still!”

—Caelian Weir, Engineer—

OOC: I’ll leave the detail of your tender medical treatment to you Weir :) For now lets wrap up things!

About this point the lighting flickered and rose to more normal levels, not back to 100% but certainly 90% there. NEs were coming and going at a job and a group soon were on hand to go into the suite room to put out the fire manually. Another group soon after arrived and a ship wide comm came through. =/\= Attention all hands this is the Fleet Captain Andone. I am pleased to report that we have made it through our journey back to the Milky Way, we are currently holding position a half a light year from Starbase 243. Aide ships are on their way though I am confident from damage control that we should have motive power shortly before they arrive. All departments provide status updates by 0900 hours tomorrow morning. Starbase 243 has already been apprised of our detour this past week and welcomes us back safe and sound. Good work everyone, Andone out. =/\= She said.

GM CockRoach