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“Ensign, you may have some additional tools for your shop. We’ve taken in a Vulcan container a couple of centuries old. Take a team and unload them and bring them back for us to look at. Lay them out along the bulkhead on E Deck. Scan them for metal fatigue. Sort them by use. Separate what we might be able to use,” Lt Green had said. All El thought of as she compiled the team from the various shifts was ‘This was going to be fun.’

With a clang a piece of the container’s lock fell away to the deck with a metallic clang. Boris tugged back his goggles. His curled up mustache and dark eyes made him look like an ancient villain about to make the reveal of the kidnapped damsel in distress or his evil plot to take over the world. “Secure the cutter,” Fiona said. “Good work, Boris. Galen, Dorian. Gloves on. Let’s get this thing open.”

The two, vastly different, the trim, hairy Greek next to the straw colored blue eyed farm boy, but both with insulated gloves up to their elbows stepped forward and each pulled on the wings of the doors to pull it open and make the big reveal

• El, Eng

The side of the right side of the container and part of the top showed signs of a fire of some sort in its past. Likely the reason it had gotten spaced from elsewhere in the vulcan ship’s cargo hold. As the container’s two doors were pried open as the lock fell, the hermetic seal on the container gave way, releasing ancient smells and particles preserved in the vacuum mixing with the fresher air of the Sojourner.

The smell had a engrained odor of said ancient fire from the side of the container, inside the faint smell of what perhaps could best be described as ancient onions mixed with the faint smell of old oils, and packed spare electrical tools. The container had a narrow two foot wide service walkway with two racks on either side of labeled plastic containers in the Vulcan language. A quick scan by a hand scanner linked to the universal translator easily enough translated the writings.

On the left side on the bottom shelf the five smaller crates contained 10 plasma welders, 5 plasma battery charging units, and 15 plasma cells for the welders. They were older units that strapped to the upper back and shoulders to the wielder and used a wrist extended cutter unit to allow optional two hands free, or a narrower beam attachment could be put on using both hands for finer work. Running a scanner over all this found 3-4 of the 10 welders with a little cleaning and maintenance could be usable again, of 2 of the 5 plasma cell chargers were equally in usable shape once worked over, and 14 of the 15 plasma cells were still fully charged, and were capable of being recharged down the line one at a time if they got the 2 chargers working. The 15th cell had cracked and was junk by this point.

On the top shelf on the left was six slightly smaller crates then those below. The first three held 16 emergency hull sealant capsules and 3 of their sprayers. While most Vulcan ships used an energy forcefield system for hull breaches in case of power loss these were the next best thing for smaller breaches. The sprayers had an adjustable nose that could spray either fine holes down to a pencil point in size or a wider spray up to 4 or so feet wide. The spray on contact with air according to the basic field manual on a PADD that still worked and translated explained it would quickly solidify in 1.192 seconds. Since Starfleet vessels used sectional emergency bulkheads and something similar to this the haul here would be a nice addition if they ran into trouble with combat or the like. Roughly speaking the sealant was on par with what Starfleet had and a little better in some ways. The second set of three boxes had 3 large ship sectional emergency batteries, as well as their basic hook up and service equipment. Each battery held enough juice to run roughly a single section of a ship for up to 2-4 hours. Looking at the outputs and definitions of what the Vulcans consider a ‘section’ of a ship vs Starfleet roughly they could hook one of these up and likely power almost a whole deck’s power needs for a half an hour to 2 hours in a pinch. Sadly these older models were not rechargeable and so were single use only.

OOC: Taking some license with engineering wording to call duro-chips the thing Vulcans used prior to Deuteronic computers in TOS and so are still more advanced then what you all got for the Ent era :)

On the bottom right shelf, they found the 8 boxes contained six duro-chip scanners, six duro-chip diagnostic and maintenance tool sets, six duro-chip extension wands for chip placement or removal, and six duro-chip emergency data shunts, and six duro-chip emergency short term data storage units. All were in solid shape and fully usable.....if they had a ship that used the Vulcan’s duro-chip based systems. The top 4 boxes however, contained a sizable amount of high data bandwidth cabling, at least by Starfleet standards, several cable running tools, and a sizable amount of micro-circuitry sensor units used to catch breaks or damage int a cable run. Looking at the capacity of the cables they had enough here to run the length of the ship from bow to stern about 2 times! It was also ironic that high capacity cabling like this was exactly what they could have used on their last mission to fix the tactical console on the bridge. Given it was slightly better even then they had now they could make some cable runs to improve response times from the bridge to key systems down the line if they wanted.

All in all this wasn’t a bad find! Certainly many useful materials they could use in some form now or in the future if they wanted. The only group of things that weren’t immediately useful was those tools related to the duro-chips the Vulcan used.

GM CockRoach