Posted by Lieutenant Commander Maxwell Wynter (Chief Engineer / 2nd Officer) in Jefferies Tubes

Posted by Warrant Officer Walker Darach (Chief Operations Officer) in Jefferies Tubes

Posted by Lieutenant Faye Calloway (Mission Specialist) in Jefferies Tubes
Posted by… suppressed (5) by the Post Ghost! 👻

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“They’ll look after you” Max said to her, his voice soft. “Your lucky Mr Darach was here Faye, I’ll tell you just how lucky later. I didn’t know you wanted to make me that pizza this bad.” His voice held a tone of humor to it, although it didn’t show through to his face at all. Faye couldn’t see that however. Patting the medic on the shoulder in a confirmation to get going, he turned to the Chief of Ops.

“You should get to the sickbay as well, that sounds nasty.” he said, indicating the mans cough but at the same time tilting his head towards Faye in a silent request to look after her. “Power is out along the EPS grid feeding the junction, but we still have a fire in that junction. I need to see what damage is in there and what the hell caused half the conduits in this section to surge and overload.” With his free hand he clipped the breather over his mouth fully and entered the access hatch, not looking back to see if the Chief was waiting, leaving or following. There was still a fire to deal with.

Crouching inside, he squinted through the smoke and his torch picked out the objects. A tool kit beside an open panel, and a cylindrical object that wasn’t supposed to be there. “Hmmph” he grunted and moved forward to the panel, pointing the extinguisher at the base of the fire and putting it out in a few well placed bursts. Seconds later, he heard a hum as the fire suppression system came to life and squirted the ex-fire, and him, with suppressant. With that operational and the fire out, the smoke was cleared from the tube in an instant.

Kneeling down and looking at the damage and the cylinder, Max’s eyes narrowed again. “What have we here?” he said as he looked over the device, reaching for his tricorder.

Lt Cmdr Max Wynter
CE / 2nd Officer

OOC: Going to start a thread for Sickbay
IC:
The cylinder definitely didn’t look like a standard component one would find in a power conduit. A scan would give potentially eyebrow raising results since the only thing that was immediately detectable was the composition of the casing. Duranium and a bit of tritanium allowed the cylinder to remain intact, but it was the unusual amounts of korbonite that were used like a net in the casing that prevented Wynter from finding out what was inside the thing and its purpose.

~Faye Calloway, Data Scientist

“I might be new to the ship Commander, but I sure don’t think that is standard issue,” Walker said as he came up behind the Chief Engineer. As soon as the med team had taken Faye away, he had grabbed a respirator from a nearby supply locker. Well it hadn’t been quite that easy, the medics wanted him to go with, but they had eventually relented. With plenty of assurance that he would stop by soon.

But for now his first responsibility was to the ship. So after grabbing the respirator, he followed behind the chief, having come up right after the fire suppression systems had kicked in. “Any chance that it is some sort of capacitor, and caused a surge back through the eps grid? Because I’ve seen some bad burns in my time, but those were some pretty severe electrical burns.”

WO Darach - COO

With some checking of the conduit access area, they would realize that Faye had likely been intending to hook up the device after she had done whatever fiddling that she had given them a heads up on would required a power draw. But she had also requested that power be shunted away or decreased significantly to the specific access point that was still open. Now that power had actually been shut off entirely, they would note that she had been in the middle of rigging the conduit to flow through something, quite possibly the device Wynter held in his hands. It was also notable that it was all impeccably done. Her work had no obvious errors in it, and if there hadn’t been been so much power in the adjacent system when she had activated the flow regulator, it’s likely they wouldn’t be in a burned out EPS conduit area.

But the real question remained: what exactly had Calloway been trying to do? Because even with her known classified data work, it didn’t exactly line up all nice and neat.

~Faye Calloway, Data Scientist

As Walker looked around, he flipped open a tricorder and checked the conduit. He was looking at the rigging that Calloway had started, hoping to figure out what had caused the short. But as he looked closer, something wasn’t adding up.

“Do you mind if I see that device? Because this isn’t adding up,” he asked holding out his hand towards Wynter. “I was looking at the connections there, and it looks like she was getting ready to hook something up to the conduit, probably that device. But why wasn’t power turned off in this junction? I saw the note in the docket that there was a maintenance request for this junction, but that was it. If I was going to be doing work on an EPS conduit, there is not much reason not to have power diverted, at least temporarily.” Especially because there was no reason to be playing with that much live power when you had the option to turn it off. “Unless of course she was trying to divert attention from what was going on here. But then why was it on the schedule?”

WO Darach - COO

“Power to this junction Was diverted, I saw to it myself. It was sent to nearby points which also overloaded when the surge happened. Faye requested power was reduced by an amount which was followed, I can only assume right now that she underestimated the safe level of power she needed for whatever she was doing, and until we get a team in here to assess what exactly she’s done, and reverse it back to normal operating standard, I have no idea why it overloaded.”

Picking up the device, he looked it over for a second then passed it to Darach. “We can’t do much with it in here with only a tricorder, lets take it down to Engineering and put it through some scans and tests. Find out what it is supposed to do. As of right now, Mr Darach, that item is confiscated as an unregistered piece of tech that she was trying to hook up to our systems. The CO might know what it is, but it wasn’t on any declaration I saw or signed off on, only that she was doing work in here as part of her assignment.” Passing the device to the Operations Chief, Max made his way out of the tube and took off his breather.

=/\= Engineering this is the Chief, send a repair crew to the surge site. We need to find out what Faye was doing in here and repair it. Keep power levels diverted until all the junctions are checked. =/\=

Then, Max turned to watch Darach with the device. “Lets go find out what it does.”

Lt Cmdr Wynter
CE

“Agreed Commander,” Walker said looking over the device. “I’d be curious to get a better look inside of it to see what it really can do. With a good grasp on the device, Walker followed him out of the jefferies tube. As soon as he stepped out, he pulled off the rebreather and took another look at the device.

“Lead the way Commander. Where do you want to start?”

WO Darach - COO