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
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El bent to the console and worked a dial, here and there touching the screen to shift the image. “We’re moving around the edge of the nebula. Looks pretty with the colors.” She glanced over. “It’s exciting. Never been this close to anything like this.” She paused and said before looking back to the screen. “You must have seen a lot out here, Chief.”
- El, Eng

“To be honest, I am usually down here and have not gotten out as much as I would like. That said, yes, what I have seen has been pretty amazing” he responded.

Bohannon, CE

El frowned, disappointed. This was the great adventure. Space. Even here. As an engineer she could pull up almost any console in parallel to see what was going on from sensors and even run her own analysis of things based on her ideas. By the look of things they were still running alongside the nebula’s edge. Computing power was being taken up from sensors analyzing confusing signals. Maybe they were trying to lock them down. A couple of buoys dropped behind them as they went would do the trick, but she figured the bridge would know that straight away and was talking about that even now.

“Such as?” she prodded. With a galaxy out here to explore where few humans had ever been so much must have been astonishing. Like this. So close to something that only telescopes could really see from Earth for the majority of the population and she was on its doorstep.
- El, Eng

Bohannon smiled and replied, “Buy me a drink sometime and I will tell you. In the meantime, let’s get back to work. Captain might need her engines at any time.”

Jay Bohannon, CE

El sighed and hid a small pout. Tapping off the link to the outside she brought up the engine status and scanned recent fuel consumption rates for any deviations from accepted parameters. They were good, though there seemed to be a short ‘jump’ in consumption when the engines moved from warp 2 to 3, but not from 1 to 2. It wasn’t a big spike that went over anything but was something to keep an eye on, especially if it spiked anywhere else.

“I’ve logged all issues with communications relay power converters that had issues when we went into the nebula. According to the logs they are all Mark 19’s. We have 21’s in stock but not enough to do them all. Apart from that we’re looking good to go if it comes to it.”
- El, Eng
“Good job Ensign. I am going to head to the bridge for my watch, please help keep this place running for me” said Bohannon.

Bohannon, CE

“Of course, Chief,” El said. Inside she was pleased to be here to watch over the engines. Not that she anticipated anything worrisome provided they didn’t go trekking back into the nebula anytime soon. On the other side she cast a glance toward Bohannon when the doors slid closed, and muttered softly. “It isn’t like I have to pedal to keep us moving.” That was her cynical moment that quickly evaporated in the face of the unknown and what they might encounter out there.

Given the issues they had on their first slide into the edge of the nebula with systems overloading particularly on communications systems El tapped away on the keys to run a series of simulations - particularly whether or not polarizing the hull at different strengths would best protect them from the deleterious effects of the nebula.
- El, Eng

OOC: As your Chief, I want to give you something to do.
OOC: Tips hat. Much obliged insert thumbs up here

Computer: A humming noise started to come from the main computer, just then circuits started to spark like coffee had been spilled on them…then it looked like a fire might occur......

Bohannon, CE

((The sparked console that blew the communications and universal translator boards came half an hour before reaching the nebula. And we’ve barely skirting the edges, so no, none should think the nebula will cause problems… worrying about them going out again, however, is acceptable. So feel free to try to explore why they went out originally.))
OOC: Ahhh .. thank you. Thought that the ship had ‘skirted the edge’ of it. Good to know!
IC:

As El looked at the timeline of the first issue with the UT and came to the realization that she had been wrong in her assumption. She had taken it from the talk on the bridge that they had been closer to the nebula than they actually had been. She was about to plot back in the logs and navigational path when that happened to try to figure out why when she heard a humming sound. Not having been here ‘that’ long she was unsure if that was a normal sound or not.

Then sparks erupted. For a second she just stared. ‘That’ wasn’t supposed to happen. “Galen!” she called out to the only other engineer she saw close by. “Overload! Cut the power to console … 4-Charlie!” she added, supposing that was what it was, but could be wrong. Springing out of her seat she ran to the nearby cabinet to pull out a fire suppressor container, all the while glancing at the console. What ‘had’ happened there?!
- el, Eng

The sparks were from a repair made earlier that day. A tool had been left under the console. The shifting of the ship had caused it to fall across a panel beneath the console and shorted the panel once more. Thankfully, it wasn’t an active console at the time of the sparking, so no other systems were affected. The panel would need replacing, again, and a full diagnostic would need to be run once more.

Ari
CO

((We’ll be finishing this up, so please don’t stop… but also be aware the NEW MAIN SIM has begun… thank you Rob))

The acrid smell curled El’s nose. The flame retardant was supposed to suppress that however El thought that it was wanting. ‘Probably designed by a boy,’ she thought. ‘They have no sense of smell.’ Dropping to one knee the extinguisher touched the deck with a light hollow clank. A waft of smoke still rose from a crack in the console. ‘That had just been worked on. What had happened?’ she added to her thoughts, fingers turning the small toggles near the deck to open it up, waving away a puff of smoke with her hand. There was little to catch fire in there but it didn’t stop overloads and whatnot from trying. Peering in she examined what was what. Galen hovered nearby.

She groaned out a soft Chinese curse again. “What is it,” Galen asked.
“Not good.” Reaching in she drew out a blackened servo-solder that was now quite useless. “Logan’s servo-solder.” She sighed and dropped it to the deck. “He said he couldn’t find it after he did that repair. Now we know.” Logan was doting after a certain Maco who didn’t return his interest and he had been off in lala land for weeks. This was the first ‘accident’ of note - besides many a small forgotten detail here and there from the lovesick Scot. Studying the interior she noted that it was toast. That was going to take all afternoon to replace. Fortunately it was a secondary unit that had been offline for a fix. “Galen, check stores and see if we have a replacement there. I remember seeing one anyway on the last restock.”
-El, Eng

About this time the Chief Engineer arrived on the bridge for his watch.

Bohannon, CE

El noted the sudden crash out of warp, not as much physically as much as other alarms blaring on the consoles where the computers and engines were ‘complaining’ at their abrupt departure from what otherwise had been a smooth sail. Not having time to see what was going on out there El slapped the console to silence the blare of the alarm, though the flashing lights remained. Her eyes poured over the scrolling status bar faster than most would be able to do; El was scanning for noted words and things that were ‘bad’. By all accounts something had suddenly popped their bubble forcing them out of warp, and by the accounts of the limited sensor information they had, it was still out there. They were stuck with impulse until they could either get around that or get out of that.

“Galen!!” El called back, hoping to catch him before he had departed. Surely he’d not have scarpered off when the ship did it’s belly flop into normal space.
“Here,” Galen said. His eyes were wide. “I heard the engines backfire.”
She wanted to lecture him in that ‘Cochranes’ didn’t backfire, and certainly not her beloved Cochranes. “Run a quick diagnostic on the warp engines for any strain or issues. I’m going to toss come coal into the impulse engines to see if they are okay.”
“Right. What happened?” he asked.
“I’ve no idea. There’s a force out there that wasn’t there a minute ago that is messing with forming a warp field. Chief is up on the bridge. He’ll find out more.”

With that El moved to impulse control. They were always ‘on’ per se as you can’t just cold start a fusion engine. Scanning the status they looked fine. Even if they had a bubble busting force out there it shouldn’t interfere with straight newtonian physics of force and counterforce.
- El, Eng