Posted by Ensign Elemirre Serinde (Engineering Officer) in Engineering - Does Something Smell Burnt?

Posted by Ensign Elemirre Serinde (Engineering Officer) in Engineering - Does Something Smell Burnt?

Posted by Ensign Elemirre Serinde (Engineering Officer) in Engineering - Does Something Smell Burnt?
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“Could use an arm,” Paige said with a short laugh. “Whatcha know about ship power systems Commander?”

Lt. Paige Garrison - CE
Lt. Paige Garrison - CE

Natalia laughed.
“I know the basics. We covered basic ship’s systems on the Command track at the Academy. I can follow instructions and I’m a quick learner. I thought it better to make myself useful down here rather than twiddling my thumbs on the bridge.” Natalia replied with a grin.

“Why don’t I have you start helping out the DC team.

“Fiona!” Paige called out, turning slightly away from Natalia. “The Commander is here to help, think you can put her to good use?”

Natalia nodded and looked over at the red headed Fiona.
“Aye Chief.” She replied moving over to the DC team.

Fiona Cleare turned - a mostly faceless EV mask pointed toward Paige and Natalia - as she held the hose. There were four at it there - two suited and two not. Natalia may note from the roster that she was a Chief Petty Officer. Behind her helping was Bekele Seifu, Senior Chief Petty Officer. Rounding out the help were two crewmen, one suited and thus unknown behind the hood. The nozzle was shut down and with it much of the noise in engineering. Fiona pulled the hood off revealing flaming red hair that she shook. “Temperature check!” she said to the unsuited crewman.

“Aye Chief, if our temperature is stable here we have a great deal to do. Gravity for one. Clean up for another.”

For El the screen data was forming slowly. Too slow and she fought her patience and training to just wait for it. Sasha was looking like he was in the same boat for transferring any power. Were they working at cross purposes? While her brash chief was with the XO, El shifted lightly over to Sasha’s station, propelling herself along the thin railing. “Sasha, we’re both doing the same thing with trying to route power. You’re waiting for the system and I’m not seeing where the power is going to. I’ve set up a power tree to tell us where the power is going to but it’s taking forever. You take my place there and set your station to alert you if it successfully routes power. I’m going up to E-Deck to access the computer core library directly.”

With that she planted her feet and then shot up through the open ceiling to catch herself on the deck above, on E-Deck. Shifting angles she pushed off to the computer library room that was just off the engineering area. Truly, on this deck, apart from some quarters and the cargo bays, everything here was engineering. Pushing herself into a chair and using her knees to keep her in place she brought up the main computer directly. This affected sensors, artificial gravity, thrusters and propulsion and turned engineering into a chaotic pool of damage control. This was too perfect, at least to El. If they did get out of the asteroids then what? A waiting ship? Using multiple consoles El brought up system diagnostics for armory control and hull polarization to see if there was anything unusual there that might just happen to get knocked out next. With another display she brought up the cochrane. Was anything infringing on them going into warp? On a third she did the same with impulse engines. On a fourth and final display she sought to bring up a comparison between the damage they took with what the ‘refit’ had done while in space dock.

In the back of her mind she had thought to tell the Chief her speculation but she was with the XO at the time and Sasha could watch a lagging system as well as she could.
- El, Eng
Natalia CSO/XO

OOC: Sorry for the delay. I like where your thinking is at Gene. Giving me some fantastic ideas.+
OOC: I live to serve :) .. Gene .. oh, and we have the current Plasma cannons aboard. Not updated to the phase cannons yet.

The power diagnostic ‘tree’ finished mapping and five dead zones were displayed. Power was either being shunted into these dead zones but no reading was indicating it or no power was going into them at all. The zones specifically were deflector control, port maneuvering and adjacent systems, the plasma cannon system, the lower launch bay, and gravity control.

Both Sasha and El saw the information at the same time roughly. The tall Russian blinked at these dead zones and typed a message to El who was upstairs. Glancing back the Chief was still talking to the XO.
Sasha: [o] What is this? If power is going there why don’t we have control? [c]
El: [o] Sasha, keep an eye on power utilization overall. I’m going to kill all power to these areas. Let’s see what happens. None are being used or needed right now. While I do that you set a Min/Max power limit for these systems based on typical use pattern. With all this power going to these locations I’m concerned that if we try to use them it might overload them if we don’t know how much power is going there. [c]
Sasha [o] Oh and when you can let the Chief know. I’m likely already on report for this. [c]

While that was happening El was killing power transfer to those systems. They had one port to maneuver which won’t help anything and no deflectors to speak of and no gravity. Those were first up on line to get back barring trouble. But lower launch bay?

Armory and hull polarization read as okay. The warp drive was intact and useable but it would heavily depend on deflector dish which was currently damaged. Impulse engines were likewise limited to the maneuvering control damage affecting the thrusters.

~Creeping Dread

El and Sasha, Eng

OOC: Let me clarify. The five areas are dead zones so it’s unknown if they’re getting power or if they’re dead. Though you can intuit that deflector control is because of the two in there rigging the manual switchover system. Are you sure you want to turn them off and on again? Oh and good catch regarding the plasma cannons.
OOC: Never good when the GM asks ‘are you sure’? <G> .. Gene

~Creeping Dread

“My spidey was tingling Ensign,” Paige said pushing herself back towards Sasha. “Did the diagnostics finally spit out something? And where did Serinde go?”

Lt. Paige Garrison - CE

“More or less, Chief,” he said. “Five areas here are showing nothing and that is where 30% of our power is going.” He pointed to each in turn for deflector control, port maneuvering and adjacent systems, the plasma cannon system, the lower launch bay, and gravity control. “Power is supposed to be going to those areas but it is evidently not happening with gravity. We’re not using deflector or plasma cannons and there is nothing happening in the launch bay. There is only one thruster operating and that will not give us control anyway. El went up into the computer core thinking data might come up faster direct from the system.”

“She is worried that if they come to be used there will be a further power surge because of excess power. It could also mean damage. She wants to remove power to those areas. She asked me to set up a Min/Max power limiter to those areas so that after we start it up again there will be governors on them so they won’t overload until we can physically check them.”

Paige nodded. “That makes sense, I’d like to avoid putting any more holes in the ship.”

Meanwhile El was upstairs awaiting indication from Sasha that he was ready for her to knock out the power to those areas and then reinstate it in a controlled level. Her finger hovered over the button ..
El and Sasha, Eng

Natalia made her way over to Fiona Clare the CPO, as directed by the Chief. She smiled as she reached the Chief Petty Officer and held out her hand.
“I’m Natalia, I don’t think we’ve formerly met. I’m here to lend a hand. I can follow instructions and I’m a quick learner. Where do you need me and what do you need me to do?” She asked, direct and to the point not wanting to waste any time.

Petrenkov CSO/XO

Fiona hid her general look of huh behind her hood but took the offered hand then brushed some floating bits of suppressant from the air between them. “If our temp is good we can move to something more proactive like gravity control here rather than worrying if we’ll blow up.” She glanced up at the crater in the ceiling section that was coated in a slimy mix. THAT was not going to be a quick fix. She pointed to a gloved hand at a console that had been in the backwash of the coolant and had its share and a half of the goop on it. “That console there is dedicated to artificial gravity and inertial damping. Can you .. ” two more engineers came into the room - Boris and William - and Fiona called out to them. “Hoy! You two! Get over to AG and help the commander. Start cleaning it off and help her where she needs it!”

Natalia looked up at the slimy section and groaned. No quick fixes there.
“I would love to not get blown up.” She mumbled to herself in between the interruption from Boris and William.

Then back to the XO with somewhat better tone. “If we’re going to get it going that may be the place to start.” The XO would note that the two in the suits were handily secured to the decking in magnetic boots.

“Artificial gravity, gotcha. Let’s see what we’ve got.” She replied floating and slightly jealous of the two in the suits with the magnetic boots.

Suddenly a voice called out. “Is everyone all right?” A female voice, steady but concerned, carried across the room as a young woman appeared in the doorway. Despite floating, she gave the appearance of someone unperturbed by the inconvenience. Almost as if she was used to it.

Her eyes moved to each individual, scanning the room as she went as if looking for others at the same time. “I’m Ensign Niles from Medical. Chief sent me to see if anyone needed assistance.”

Ensign Niles
Medical

All heads turned to Ensign Niles. Nearly all hands lifted but Fawkes waved his hand. “Over here. Selwyn took a hit.” Selwyn had been secured against and in a webbing that was mag attached to the bulkhead wall. He didn’t look well and was certainly unconscious at best.
- Various Engineers

OOC: Poor Selwyn took a hit .. he might be a gonner but GM will let us know. We’ve been holding out hope that he didn’t meet the fate of Millicant who is definitely gone. .. Gene

OOC: Poor Ensign Millicant… we hardly knew him.

NE Selwyn seemed to move very slightly at his being mentioned. Whether that was a trick of the air flow in zero G or not will need to wait until Niles checks for vitals.

On the matter of the exploded power junction the temperature had cooled enough to be warm to the touch still but not melt the flesh off the hands.

~Creeping Dread

El meanwhile messaged down .. [o] Sasha? Are we ready? What is the problem? [c]
Sasha quickly responded .. [o] Waiting on the Chief. Standby [c]

Paige pointed to herself, “Me? I thought you had already set them. Can you do it all here? Or do we need to do it locally at each location?”

While El waited she brought up diagnostics on the Thrusters. What was happening with them? What was damaged that they needed to fix?

Will and Boris moved with careful motions; many surfaces were slick with the coolant goop and floated toward the gravity controller. Boris made a motion and Will peeled off to get the equivalent of a wetvac.

Bekele called out. “Temperature is stable. Warm but we’re not in danger. Slowly decreasing.”
Fiona let out a breath and relaxed. “Galen, stow the hose and monitor the temperatures. We need to know if it increases at all or is a steady decline.” Galen nodded an aye and clunked off still in his suit. Fiona looked at Bekele. The broad Ethiopian looked about. No time to dilly dally. Deflectors were being looked at. Gravity control. “Engines,” he said. “Let’s make sure they will operate when we need them.” Together the two moved to the engine status screen and studied the results.
- El and crew ..

Natalia managed to awkwardly float herself over to the console by artificial gravity and inertial dampening. She cast her eye of the console before pushing any buttons to see if it had any power. Not seeing anything obvious she pressed a button hoping it would come to life.

Petrenkov CSO/XO

The grav control console came to life but the status display showed that everything was either offline or no signal was being received.

Karina slowly made her way over to where she was hailed from. Seeing the Ensign in webbing made her smile and nod to the others around them. “Hi. I’m Karina. Good call on the webbing. Hard to hold someone still in zero G. And propping them under a console makes treatment difficult.”

The young woman had placed most of her needed tools on her belt or in pockets. A med kit was also slung across her chest. Pulling out her scanner she made a pass down then back up the unconscious NE. Her eyes looking for open wounds as well. “What happened to him? Injured in the explosion?”

The explosion theory wasn’t hard to guess. There were bits of debris and something akin to slime on everything. Locking one of her feet onto the bottom of the webbing to keep from floating away she glanced at her readings while waiting to see who would answer.

Karina
Medical

Fawkes, in his clipped British tone, said, “Yes, doctor, the explosion caught him and threw him. We were all pretty tossed about to one degree or another so didn’t see exactly what happened.”

Meanwhile Will and Boris obediently followed the Commander’s lead and scraped or wiped off the slimy coolant off of the console where she was looking. Their own ‘engineer’ eyes looked about at the consoles and readings to try to get an idea of where things might have gone wrong with it if the console was going to reveal that secret.
- Will, Boris and Fawkes

The exploded junction was still steadily decreasing in temperature. It looked like it wasn’t going to spike in heat again.

~Creeping Dread

Natalia tapped the console with her hand.
“Damn.” She stated and turned to Boris
“It looks like everything is offline or isn’t getting a signal.” She stated with a sigh. She looked around the console at the grav station for any obvious signs of damage. rule out the simplicist solutions first she thought to herself.

Commander Petrenkov CSO/XO

Lt. Paige Garrison - CE

The console itself and its connective cabling looked fine.

~Creeping Dread

OOC: Okay .. a little daring do here to move things along a little ..
IC:

El was waiting but there wasn’t anything coming back to her. Had there been any confusion? What has happening down there? She chewed on her lower lip and messaged.

[o] Sasha, I am going to knock out power to gravity control. Have you placed in the power governors for there? [c]
Sasha, below glanced at the Chief and then replied. [o] I have and are ready [c]
[o] On the count of 5 I will kill power to gravity control. I will check power distribution again. But first, what is the condition of the AG system? [c]
Sasha looked over. “Boris, what is the AG console showing?”
Boris, busy checking cabling, replied in a similar accent to Sasha’s, “It’s dead. We are getting nothing No outward damage.”
[o] El, the console is showing no power to it. No obvious damage. [c]
[o] Starting countdown to cut power to AG. Verify power end at conduit junction 128 Alpha. Mark [c] With that she hit the switch to stop power to the artificial gravity. Both she and Sasha watched for power distribution adjustments. Where did that missing 30% going to?
Sasha called out to Boris. “We’ve cut power to the artificial gravity. Run a power trace to and from Junction 128 Alpha.”

Meanwhile at the artificial gravity station Boris said to the Commander. “Power should be off to this station. I’m going under to connect a wire tracer to the main power conduit to here. Once I connect it you should have a reading.” He handed her the small unit.

Meanwhile, a call for the Chief .. [o] Engineering, Green here. We have jury rigged a fix on the deflector control. Bridge is informed. Where should we go next? [c]
- A Bunch of Engineers

[O] Head to port maneuvering. We are still trying to figure out where the power drain is coming from. [O]

” Are we still seeing a power drain coming from deflector control?” Paige asked looking over at Sasha.

Natalia nodded to Boris and held the unit in her hand, she stared at the screen ready for a reading to pop up on the screen. She was glad to have Boris on hand. She wanted to be useful but couldn’t push the thought away that she was getting in the way somewhat. If anything it had given her a chance to see the Engineering team at work, it looked like the Chief had things running very smoothly indeed. She let her thoughts wonder and then snapped back returning to staring at the screen.

Commander Petrenkov CSO/XO

Lt. Paige Garrison - CE

The power distribution remained unchanged after power to anti-grav was cut off. That didn’t seem to be the system draining power.

~Creeping Dread

Natalia tapped the device and gave it a little shake.
“Boris, that didn’t do anything, I’m not getting a reading. Are you sure you’ve done whatever you’re doing correctly?” She asked Boris, who was trying to re-esatblish power to Anti-grav.

Commander Petrenkov CSO/XO

OOC: Trying to move things along quite significantly here
IC:

Natalia didn’t wait for Boris to respond, she put down the device and glided over towards the chief.
“Chief, I’m going to call a briefing. We all need to know what the situation is. Discussing over a communicator is fine, but we need a clear plan.”

Paige opened her mouth to object, she needed to be in engineering. But she saw the look on the Commanders face, at the same time pain shot through her shoulder. At the moment she was more of a liability, and not able to help as she should be able to. Cursing she tossed the communicator over to Natalia.

After Paige responded and handed over the communicator she flipped it open.
[o] Bridge, this Commander Petrenkov. I think we need a staff briefing, we need to know what the situation is and we need a clear plan moving forward. I would appreciate all the Senior Officers being there. Paige and I are heading to the Bridge now.[c] With that, she beckoned to Paige to follow her and she glided her way back through the tubing to the Bridge.

Commander Petrenkov CSO/XO

“Ensign,” Paige said towards Sasha as she started following the Commander. “You’re in charge here. Gravity, then engines, make that priority.”

With her bad arm tucked in tight, Paige pulled herself into the service tube behind Natalia.

Lt. Paige Garrison - CE

OOC: At long last ..

Sasha swallowed hard but nodded. If he could manage a damage control team he could do this at least until Lt Green returned. But he was off looking at the thruster issue, having come in, collected Bekele and Emerson and left with them and the warrant officer. That was a formidable group. He glanced over to Fiona and knew her tongue was sharp when she smelled incompetence, especially in officers. “Yes, Chief,” he said.

[o] El, we need gravity control soon. Let’s do the plasma cannon and launch bay. The officers have moved off to do a briefing so things must be stable for us to cut power and see if we are lucky with finding out where the power is going. [c]
While he waited on a reply he sent a message to the Bay and the Armory saying they were doing a controlled power cut as a diagnostic check. When that was done he saw that El had written.
[o] I’m ready to see what happens here. [c]
“Boris, Galen and Dorian,” Sasha called over. “Start a repair on the communications lines from Engineering.” That would take them some time to do that but right now they might have that time and it was better than having to use a communicator all the time.
[o] El, I’m cutting power now to the Launch Bay and Armory. [c] he said as he did it .. and with his other hand crossed his fingers.
- Sasha, El and more ..

El sat in the computer seat lightly balancing herself in the chair to keep herself from floating off. The slightly canned air in the clean room (or clean-ish) tasted tinny and the air from the vents loud in the otherwise mostly silent environment. She looked at the data scrolling across the screen, her eyes taking it in as it moved and updated. But something didn’t add up. That much power didn’t just disappear into nowhere. Nor could it be bleeding out through a break. If it had there would be sensors going off more angrily than a swarm of wasps. Had there been sabotage during the upgrades that had been hastily done?

Lt Green will see what was happening with port maneuvering. They had ruled out gravity control and deflector control. That only left lower launch bay and plasma cannon system which they were now cutting power to to determine what was going on. Of course was it on one thing? They would know soon enough, she hoped. Get power back from that null zone black hole and they could get gravity back.

She recalled the last time there was such an issue aboard and the cryptic message she had received afterward by an anonymous source .. ‘It was not an accident’ .. was this along the same lines? She chewed a nail while thinking and waiting for data from the power cut.
El, Eng

OOC: Bump for GM .. Gene .. and again ..

OOC: Sorry Gene! Taking over from Matt. Please correct me if I’ve gotten any details incorrect!

Ensign Serinde was indeed correct, it was not an accident. Looked at the data it appeared that there was a massive diversion of power to the plasma cannon. In a way it was lucky they had taken the hit from the asteroid field, otherwise they wouldn’t have spotted it. It would seem that someone had hoped to cause an overload in the canon the next time it was fired. At best it would have left them defenceless. At worst, the damage could have been catastrophic.....

Temp GM