Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Riker MacMoragh (Chief Engineer) in Main Engineering, Main Sim (engineering)

Posted by Gamemaster Janus (Gamemaster) in Main Engineering, Main Sim (engineering)

Posted by Gamemaster Janus (Gamemaster) in Main Engineering, Main Sim (engineering)
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“I cannot say I agree with the Ensign, Captain, but I will follow your orders. Considering your orders, I think we should look at the communication array and see what needs to be done to fix that then…I mean for local communication. I mean if it is designed to work (under normal circumstances) to other ships and so on, it stands to reason that we could adapt it to our local use here.”

Riker

Natalie nodded “Let’s go. The sooner we get to work the sooner we can have at least ship wide communications back up and running.” She said “What if we revert to analog waves instead. Like a short wave radio?”

CO

“Logic would dictate that power be the first priority unless we have enough crew members to focus on both power generation efforts and local communication repair efforts,” said the NE Vulcan, “Without power, there is not much we can do to confirm whether the communication system is working or not.”

GM

Natalie nodded “Let’s start with the power issue and see what we can get going.” She said as she moved toward the main part of the saucer to see if they could do something to get main or even secondary power up and running again.

CO

Riker followed the Captain’s order and the suggest of the Ensign and went with the small group to see how they could get the power up. “Captain, what if we took parts from the warp engine to build a make-shift power generator?” inquired the CE.

Riker MacMoragh
Chief Engineer

“That may very well work.” She said “I’ll go down to main engineering and see what we can scrounge up to make work.” She said “Let see what we can come up with. Two minds are better than one.”

“Should I come with you, Ma’am?” inquired Riker

Riker

Natalie nodded “Yes, let’s go. Two minds are better than one.” She said trying to think of a creative way to at least get communications up and running and getting at least secondary power back up. Natalie looked at Riker “What are you thinking?” She asked.

OOC: Uh… if I’m recalling my Trek tech correctly, doesn’t a warp core require magnetic fields to operate to keep the anti-matter separate from matter in order to have a stable controlled reaction?

GM

OOC: It does. Natalie will see what other power cells we have that can be used to help with the power for the ship.

Tyra

When the Captain showed up in Main Engineering, an NE spotted her. “Ma’am? Is there something I can assist you with?” The dark unlit warp core only served to remind them the gravity of the current situation and how stuck they were.

GM

Natalie smiled “Power cells?” She said “Extra ones, also couplings.” She said thoughtfully and looked at Riker “What else?”

CO

“Power cells where what I was thinking about, Ma’am. Assuming they were not all destroyed in the crash” answered Riker.

Riker

“Power cells?” an exhausted-sounding voice came from the corner. “I don’t think we have anything bigger than one for a phaser right now, sirs?” Jon said, looking like he’d been working for more than 16 hours while at least a pint low on blood. Which, in fairness, he was.

Ens. Smythe
Eng

It was that moment, two NE engineers hauled in a small crate. “We found some broken power cells – they are all damaged and out of power, but we do have enough to savage to make repairs on them. We also found some usage able power cells but they have no power. They were being charged, but discharged when the ship loss power. We estimate that if they were all charged, it’d give us enough power to activate the machine shop replicator and the backup computer to be able to manufacture the minimum parts needed to repair the current working fusion generator to give us sufficient power to potentially activate a standard replicator and keep the primary computer online. With a standard replicator, we might be able to generate the parts needed to fix another fusion generator or create parts to make a different type of electric generator that is less complicated. With two fusion generators at full power, we’d have enough power to attempt a warp core start but at a high risk of magnetic failure with no ability to transfer power to reinforce the magnetic fields.”

GM
Natalie listened as the two engineers gave a run down “Well. How long had the usable cells been charging before we lost power?” She asked as she thought about their current situation, she had to be missing something, somewhere…but what… She turned her attention back to her engineering crew “What if we harnessed the sun…solar charging panels, it might take a bit, but we can at least get the cells charged and then start getting things repaired.” She looked to the Chief “What do you think?” She asked, this was his department now, not her’s.

CO

OOC: A typical fusion reaction generates 2.13 * 10e8 kilowatts per hour for per 1 kg of fuel – according to http://www.ditl.org/article-page.php?ArticleID=26&ListID=Articles

IC:
“Not long, ma’am. My father worked on a historical solar power musuem on Earth, Captain. A solar panel about 1 meter by 1.5 meters should generate approximately 990 watts per hour. Using a rotating mirror to reflect the sunlight to optimize the most sunlight, and spacing out the solar panels about .5 meters apart, and if we were to say, cover the entire hull of the ship, that would give us the space of approximately 12,152 solar panels, or 12 kilowatts per hour. It’d take us at least 3 days for us to set up anything like that, though. Unfortunately, to charge one of those power cells would probably take 1 to 3 months to charge one cell on solar power alone, Captain. It would allow us to get a single replicator in operation off of one charged cell, however, enough to make the parts needed to fix one fusion generator. We could follow a concentrated solar power model, which would increase the power efficiency output by 50%.”

OOC: I’m making the 50% number up about the power efficiency

GM

“The good news, Captain, is that such a solar power generator would be able to power the backup computer and likely power the communications array. But we’d only power during the daytime sufficient to do so, and wouldn’t be able to charge up the power cells at the same time,” remarked the NE, “At least we would be able to look at and perform limited analysis.”

GM

Listening to all the options the CE spoke up, “My thoughts, Captain, is that what if this sun is not as powerful as we think it is? We are assuming that this sun has the same fusion of hydrogen atoms (I looked it up to make sure I knew what I was talking about lol) that the earth’s sun does. What if it does not? What if the center of the sun is more than the 15,000,000 degrees of earth’s sun; could our equipment still function properly? I just don’t know. But, at the same time, I am not sure we have a lot of other options, either.”

CE

“There’s also the orbital rotation to consider,” Jon chimed in. “A longer day with a lower- power star might offset the difference, but a shorter day would make it harder. Do we know if Science got any data on the star on our way in?”

Ens. Smythe
Eng