Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Jay Bohannon (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - ENGINEERING - And away we go

Posted by Ensign Elemirre Serinde (Engineer) in Main Sim - ENGINEERING - And away we go

Posted by Captain Arialla Bovar (Captain) in Main Sim - ENGINEERING - And away we go
Posted by… suppressed (4) by the Post Ghost! 👻

SNIP

It was a short while later that El returned from the bridge and sought out the Chief. She had a chuffed look to her and wore a grin. “Chief, bridge is set up and working again. Secondary board was fried and power matrix as well. Replaced them and swapped out the Model 21 Matrix for the 19. Seems to be holding the bursts better. I’m wondering if the sensor/comms array is acting like a lightning rod to what is going on in the nebula. I’m wondering too if we polarize the hull if it will disseminate the energy and ease up on the communications. At least until we can replace the 19’s. What do you think?”
- El, eng

The Chief stopped what he was doing to consider the words of his junior officer, while he would not have thought that…it was not a bad idea. The problem was, did the bridge have enough power to function the way it needed too, much less polarize the hull. Bohannon walked over to the power indicator board in engineering and looked at the readouts.

GM what do the power levels say?

Jay Bohannon
CE

El realized that her last report and thought must have came out in one long burst of babble in a single breath. She had been excited about all of this. Sure it wasn’t like she’d not fixed anything since being on in even this short time - but it was her first run at actually repairing something in a ‘situation’. El also thought to apply some gossip since she had overheard some things. “We’re outside this nebula but the Captain wants us to be real quiet like. There’s some ships in there, maybe, and they want to avoid them.” Her brows furrowed as she hadn’t entirely caught the ‘why’ yet on that. “But there was a transmission in what one fellow said was old Morse code that translated to ‘HER’. Now if that isn’t bizarre!”

She moved with the Chief to the panel. Her mind spit out calculations on power utilization. “We’re not at warp right now,” she said. “Zeffie should have enough power.” Whether that was her consensus or simply her hope would come out on what the board said. Idly she chewed at her bottom lip while waiting. She supposed that was better than chewing on her nails. The doc should be happy there.
- El, Eng

After making a quick swing past sickbay, Jonathan made it to engineering. He had grabbed a data pad on his way, and had loaded the short bios on the crew on it. His transfer had been pretty quick, and he hadn’t had a chance to learn all of the crew yet.

Stepping through the hatch, and closing it behind him, Jonathan looked down at the data pad. Comparing the picture on the screen to the crew around, he moved over to who he thought was the Chief Engineer.

“Lt Bohannon?”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

A man turned around with geese and other materials all over his hands and face. Not knowing who it was that said something he simply replied.

“That’s me…can I help?”

Bohannon
CE

“Commander McKnight, just made it to the Bonaventure as the new Executive Officer. The Captain wanted me to check-in with you and your team and see how everything was going. Maybe lend a hand if needed. It’s been a few years since I’ve been stationed in an engine room, but I’m sure it will come back pretty quickly.”

Jonathan stepped forward and moved over towards the chief.

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

Hearing the reply, Lt. Bohannon snapped to attention…

“Sir, I did not know you were aboard already…please excuse the mess.”

Jay Bohannon
CE

El stepped back when she saw the unknown man with the rank come looking for the chief. He didn’t ‘look’ like an engineer. If this was some years back that was a lot of changes that had taken place in the design of this ship and warp theory in general at least according to her teachers. She hid a small frown. Did the captain not trust them? Forgetting the lip chewing she unconsciously brought a thumb up and nipped at the nail with her teeth.
- El, Eng

“At ease Chief. No need for all the formalities, it is your engine room. Plus I don’t know if I could trust an engineer if they didn’t leave at least some mess out,” Jonathan said with a grin.

“So bring me up to speed. I know we’ve got a mission, but the Captain didn’t have a chance to get me quite up to speed yet. But it sure seems like we are on the clock already.”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

El decided that standing there gawking in a cynical fashion was perhaps not ladylike so she turned to the nearest console to the two talking (so she could overhear, of course) and brought up a list of notes that had been affected and just how many 21’s she would have to swap out. The question that next arose was did they have enough of them in stores? If not she would have to triage them and replace them with the old ones or perhaps only do the necessary ones and leave the others until they were clear of the nebula where she could then do the rounds without fear that they would burn out on her again.
El, Eng

“Sir, we are almost done here…although it seems to never stop. I have a top notch engineering crew and they have worked hard to get us up and running again” responded Bohannon.

Jay Bohannon
CE

“Well unless you need my help, I’ll let you get back to it then. An engineers work is never quite done, there always seems to be another problem to fix,” Jonathan said chuckling.

“Just keep us apprised of what you need, as I have a feeling we are going to be testing your skills here shortly.”

Cmdr. McKnight - XO

“Aye, sir” came the reply from Bohannon.

As the new Commander left Bohannon went back to work. One could see that he always had his work cut out for him. The ship must be running all the time and the CE was masked to make sure that occurred.

Lt. (j.g.) Jay Bohannon, CE

OOC: GM we are waiting for something to do down here, or should we post somewhere else? Just want to make sure we are staying up with you guys!

Bohannon

“What was THAT all about,” El asked quietly, watching the XO disappear out of engineering before opening her mouth. He swished in, flaunted his skills then swished back out again. Seemed more that he was spying on them. She consulted her list. “We have enough Model 21’s to swap out in the more essential areas regarding Comms, but I wonder if we get hit with more whether it wouldn’t do to wait and find another solution. The 21’s are more band aid and I don’t think we should use them all up before we’ve finished scrapping with that nebula.”
- El, Eng
OOC: Sorry on my LOA there. I thought I’d be getting in while on holiday but got pulled away for basement storage room archaeological excavations.

Perhaps twenty minutes after the departure of the XO, the ship came to a full stop. Orders on the console, passed from the helm, were to maintain static position and to stand by for emergency warp.

Ari
CO/Computer

OOC: Moving along then :)
IC:

El had been logging areas for repair, both future and immediate when she felt the change in the engines and the low rumbling in the plates diminish to a mechanical murmur. Her head, bent over the console with stylus in one hand, tipped up and listened. She felt the almost imperceptible tug of the forces that kept them from being squished to jelly from the changes in momentum.

Glancing at the ‘orders’ from the bridge she couldn’t help but wonder what was going on. Emergency warp. That sounded exciting. She glanced at the ‘Cochranes’ and wondered when the last time that order had been given and the immense energy it took to propel the ship to those velocities. “What’s going on, Chief?” She asked.
- El, Eng

Bohannon was busy working when he felt the ship come to a complete stop.

“What is going on?” he asked.

Bohannon, CE

Well that was helpful with them both asking the same question at the same time, El thought to herself. She brought up the status log and shrugged. “Don’t know. ” She sighed and read the status screen again. “Says to prepare for emergency warp. No reason.” Swiveling in her chair she said, “When I was up on the bridge fixing their comms I overheard them talking about ships in the nebula nearby. They didn’t say what for or what they were but they were pretty tense, you know, like something serious was up.” Had they run into it?

“I’m going to try to access the sensor scans. Should be able to do it on a real time check alongside power utilization curves without.” She started to bring that up. Sure they’d not get a high resolution output like on the big screen on the bridge but something much smaller on the console especially when split with power graphics and other data.
- El, Eng