Posted by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (Gamemaster) in Main Simm - Main Engineering

Posted by Captain Sarah Allen (Commanding Officer) in Main Simm - Main Engineering

Posted by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (Gamemaster) in Main Simm - Main Engineering
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Sarah couldn’t help herself as she got off the turbolift and stepped into Main Engineering. With Orion’s looking down somewhere, this was not a good time for main power to be out and working on backups.

“Where’s the chief? What are we looking at?” Sarah headed towards the warp core pushing up the sleeves of her uniform.

Captain Allen - CO

Ensign on the Spot turned and shook his head in the negative fashion. “The dilithum crystals have given up the ghost, Sir. There must have be microscopic cracks that we couldn’t detect. Better now than if we were at warp or using a lot of power if that had happened we could have lost the chamber and we would have needed to eject the core.”

He shrugged. “Right now all we need are replacement crystals and we’d be good. Of course, there isn’t a star base within 50 light so… might be a while for a re-fill.”

GM

Sarah cursed under her breath, the crystals were practically brand new.

“Any chance of regrowing the crystals? Or salvaging enough crystals, even from the shuttles, to get us at least to warp 1?”

Captain Allen - CO

The Ensign made a face as he shook his head. “The shuttle crystals are the wrong size… maybe we could jury rig it for a couple of hours at warp 1 or 2, but then we are risking the dilithum chamber. Its a big risk for not too much gain wouldn’t make it a tenth of the way to the nearest starbase… A shuttle could make the run and back in about 3 weeks.”

Sarah shook her head, the ensign was right, but it was worth a thought. “3 weeks is to long for us to be out of commission, especially in a potentially hostile area. Do we have any other possibilities?”

Captain Allen - CO

The ensign tried to look hopeful. “Well maybe, if we capture the hostile ship… I’m certain they have at least a couple of crystals… if we have three good ones, we can go warp 5 maybe 6 for a few days, maybe a week.”

GM

“It’s definitely a start. Let’s see what we can do to keep what power we have going, because otherwise we aren’t going to be up for much of a fight. Where’s the Chief anyways?”

Captain Allen - CO