Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Gamemaster) in Main Simm - Flight Deck

Posted by Lieutenant Koria Sutret (Chief Engineer) in Main Simm - Flight Deck

Posted by Gamemaster Wookius Furrius (Gamemaster) in Main Simm - Flight Deck

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The runabout came up to the flight deck and settled near the designated point. The rear hatch slowly opened to form the rear ramp to the cargo area. It would be a tight fit but it looked like it would just squeeze in. By Sutret’s estimation it was designed for just such a space to fit a runabout.

Meanwhile the teams gathered and worked at the replicator unit, attaching anti grav units that came with the unit. These were smaller and thinner, but more abundant which would make the fit into the runabout, well, workable. It would take a team of four engineers to get that bad boy installed.
- Wookiee

Koria eyed the anti grav units that her teams had pulled out and attached to the replicators. Eyeing the size of the replicator, she looked over at the cargo door on the runabout, and she could definitely see why they went with the slimmer profile. Hopefully it would fit, but it was going to be super close.

As her team surrounded the unit, they pushed it over to the runabout. “Two people inside, help guide the unit in place. It’s going to be tough, so make sure it doesn’t get caught on anything.” With the two engineers running into the runabout, the other part of the team got the replicator lined up with the door. Koria took a step back and tried to get an eye around the edges of the unit.

“Well no time like the present! Push it nice and slowly, let’s try and keep the scratches to a minimum.”

One of the engineers quipped back, “But chief, if we make a few scratches we’ll keep ourselves employed by needing to fix them.”

“Sounds like you are needing more work. Thanks for volunteering,” Koria called jokingly back.

“I’m an ace with a paint brush. Just ask my mother about the gig of the wall, the paint and my third birthday,” he said, then, “Easy there. Elevating it just a bit.”

Koria kept eyeing it as it slowly moved closer to the opening, “A little to the right… Now back a hair… There we go….” As the first unit slid past the opening and into the runabout, it got easier. With the unit fully in the runabout, they deactivated the anti-grav units, and the unit settled to the deck.

“Alright let’s get it tied down, and get the other units loaded.”

As a mag unit was activated at the decking with a soft hum the same engineer replied, “It’s secure. Nothing like making a unit that just fits. You’d almost think they designed it that way. Sheesh. Chief, you think they had an engineer helping them out?”

After the engineer, NE Mok Tal, a tall, thin Bolian, poked his head out. “I don’t think we’ll fit a second one in here, Chief. Too snug. Best to fit this in a second runabout. In the meantime, will this be going down first or will we send both at the same time? Or a second trip for this?”
Wookiee

Lt Sutret - CE

“Nah, they probably made it to big, and the first time they tried to load it an engineer had to fix the problems they made,” she said chuckling. “Plus, if I was designing this, I’d have put the anti-grav units into the housing.”

“Not too loud, Chief,” Mok said. “They’ll pull you from here into some design tank on Earth and we won’t see you for months.”

At the Bolian’s comment, Koria looked more closely at the runabout and silently cursed. “Yup, they definitely did not have an engineer doing the initial design.” They were just a bit to long.

“Let’s see if we can get a second runabout, so we can do all of the install work at once. Otherwise we’ll just have to do the second trip.”

Lt Sutret - CE

As it happened there was a second runabout that could be pulled up and arrived shortly. It was an older model, or at least the model before the previous one. This one would involve Mok or another lucky soul to remove an inset stool which was at an engineering monitoring station midsection. The upside was that there was otherwise a touch more room in the cabin for it.
- Wookiee for Mok

“That was easier then I thought,” Koria chuckled as the second runabout arrived. As the cargo hatch opened up, she peered inside. “Hey Mok, grab your spanner. We can make this work, but we’ll have to do a bit of work. There looks to be a stool in the way, think you can handle taking it out?” she asked with a grin.

Lt Sutret - CE

“Spanner? Can’t I melt it down into a nice bit of Klingon impressionist art? Fleet ships don’t decorate enough,” he commented, though did have a spanner in hand as he slipped through the rear hatch. Some clanging and Bolian cursing resounded soon thereafter … “Come on you son of a Sop-Crawler ..” followed by some banging, evidently that of the spanner whacking something followed by quiet. He emerged, spanner in one hand and the stool held up in the other. “K’plah!” he said .. Sutret would note that the base shaft of the stool was .. dinged.
- Mok

Koria raised an eyebrow at the banging noises inside the runabout. “He’s new,” she said a wry grin and a shrug to some of the passing deck crew. She tried to keep from laughing as the engineering team chuckled behind her.

As Mok held out the stool, Koria just shook her head. “Just… Just leave the stool. We’ll find someone to get the ding out later…”

She turned and looked at the engineering crew who were standing there grinning at Mok. “What are you all looking at? Let’s get that replicator loaded, and these runabouts into the air. Let’s move!”

Lt Sutret - CE