Posted by Ensign Elliot Finnegan (Engineering Officer) in Main Engineering (Tag: CE, Ensign Finnegan, 2O, GM)

Posted by Commander Jevek (Second Officer) in Main Engineering (Tag: CE, Ensign Finnegan, 2O, GM)

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Riker MacMoragh (Chief Engineer) in Main Engineering (Tag: CE, Ensign Finnegan, 2O, GM)
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Finn dropped a crystal and tried to grab it on the table, but it bounced and skittered onto the floor. He muttered and crawled around for a short while before he found it and scooped it up with the tweezers. He came back up holding it up in victory, then sheepishly placed it in the combadge.

“So what do you think, Chief?” he asked MacMoragh. “Think we could build a steam powered generator?”

Finn, Engineering

OOC: Bump.

GM

Finnegan grabbed a pencil and paper they’d been forced to use with the power out and began sketching. “A reservoir of water, piped over a fire, which turns the water to steam…” He sketched out the pathways on the sheet. “Narrow the pipe as it approaches the turbine, increasing the pressure. Steam turns the turbine, which turns the generator.” He drew another set of pipes. “Steam leaves the turbine, condenses back to water, and returns to the reservoir.”

He tapped the pipe leading from the turbine to the reservoir. “We could add a condenser there, so the steam returns to water more quickly. Maybe by passing the pipe through the river.” He turned back to the combadges. “But the condenser isn’t necessary, just makes things easier, faster.”

Finn, Eng

“Where are we going to get the pipes from?” asked an NE.

GM

Finn glanced at the NE as he assembled the next combadge. “I see two ways - pass me that circuit would you? Thanks - we could use interior paneling; held further away, our plasma cutters soften the duranium enough that it can be bent and shaped, and then welded. Alternately,” he turned and faced the NE, tossing him a combadge. “Do you know how many hundreds of meters of shielded ODN conduit there are on this vessel? Every milimeter of ODN cabling that isn’t in a terminal or a junction is in a metal tube. One might even call it a pipe. Test that out, cycle it from subspace to radio to dual mode, and then off. It’s yours.”

Finn, Eng

“Well, that could work. What do we do about hull repairs?” replied the NE.

It was that moment, Commander Jevek arrived at Main Engineering.

“Status report, please,” said Commander Jevek.

Commander Jevek, 2O
GM

Finn glanced up at voice and then stood to attention. “Good morning, Commander,” he greeted, then held out a combadge. “We have completed most of the combadges, prepared them for use on EM bands as well as subspace frequencies, and changeable to between modes. There’s a dual mode as well, but it is very power intensive.”

As Jevek had only arrived recently, he was the only remaining senior officer who hadn’t received an altered commbadge. Jevek traded his badge for altered commbadge. “Thank you Ensign, good work. Commander Jevek, Second Officer. I crashed landed a day ago. And you are?” inquired Jevek.

“Ensign Finnegan, sir,” he replied, extending his hand. “But you can call me Finn.” He grinned. “Most people have since I was a kid.”

He gestured to the pile of combadges. “We have a few left to do, for engineering crew. The rest should be ready to distribute to the crew.”

Finn, Eng

“You seemed to be in discussion about something before I interrupted, Ensign Finn. Would you please start over and continue?” asked Jevek.

Commander Jevek, 2O

“Keep in mind that we do not believe that this com badges will have the range of the regular ones. How far the range will be we don’t yet know” said Riker.

Riker, CE

“That would be a logical assumption, Mr. Riker,” replied Jevek, “However, EM band frequencies have certain properties that we already know. Depending on the power settings, we could potentially get 100 kilometers.”

Commander Jevek, 2O

Finn waited for the senior officers to complete their conversation before he continued. “So, what I was discussing was the possibility of building a steam turbine as an additional power source. We have enough material it should be doable, and it could provide enough additional energy we can start replicating more complex items, which can mean repairs go more quickly.” He shrugged. “Theoretically, any way. We have a water source, we have trees for fuel - unless someone found a coal seam nearby, it’s our best bet anyway.”

Finn, Eng

“That is a most ‘interesting idea” replied Riker.

He thought for a minute and then continued,

“Do you think we have all the necessary materials for such an endeavor? What I mean by that is, materials that we can part with?”

CE