Posted by Ensign Tellek Bog (Engineer) in Shuttle Bay - Valkyrja

Posted by Lieutenant Casela Synthi-er (Counsellor / RTF) in Shuttle Bay - Valkyrja

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Casela raised a brow, “By now I would think you’ve heard the gossip about me Mr. Bog. This shuttle should be prepared for anything and everything. I’m a hot head, remember. There’s no telling what I might get involved with or who I might make mad. Not everyone is as understanding as you.”
Lt. Synthi-er

“ I am rather easy to get along with, aren’t I” still poking around looking at the damage” Time frame?”

She was reparable, but if the space frame was as stressed as the rest of the ship an over haul might be in order.

Bog

“How ever long you need. The sooner the better. I’m not planning on going anywhere any time soon.” Unless she decided to jump out an airlock. But she wouldn’t need the shuttle for that. “But whatever upgrades you give her, are confidential. I don’t want the whole ship knowing about it. But on that note if you need help, get it. Just make sure you trust them.” She stops here thinking about the last time she took her out. “Would there be a way to put holoemitters on the outside, to use the projections like camouflage?”
Lt Synthi-er

“That’s an old Romulan trick we use for precontact survey teems. Should be easy enough. Won’t fool modern sensors unless maned buy an idiot, but their are other ways to spoof them.”

“But can it be used in space? Like if I want to hide her in a nebula. Can I use the holoemiters to make it look like I’m not there? Visually anyway?”

Taking a more critical look at the exterior, seeing both ground fire and near misses from heavier ordinance. “Did you use her for a batting ram?” Noting the impact damage. It was a testament to her designers she even made it this far.

Casela shrugged, “Not on purpose, took out some boulders and some trees when I got hit before I got her righted.”

“Defensive and offensive upgrades?” Bog asked? He had some ideas but it would reduce her cargo capacity.

Bog

“Both if her system can take it. I know she’s older, so there is only so much she can take unless we put in a whole new system into the frame.” Casela wasn’t opposed to that, but she doubted she had enough credits for all of that. She had a ton of credits, there was nothing she used them on, but she wasn’t rolling in it either.
Lt. Synthi-er

“I will see what I can do, there is potential here the Type 8 is really just an upgraded Type 6. So it’s a proven design.” Cost never entered the Tellurites mind, aboard a federation dreadnought as long as the reactors we on line and the replicators functioning most components could be replicated from the original molecular material even the entire space frame was not impossible. Subsystems for the most part were just the cost of raw materials and anything else was either available threw their Farringi contacts of the Einstein salvage.

“I imagine you don’t what her to look like a gunboat, but how much leway do ain’t have with the original appearance?”

Bog

A wicked smile crossed her face. “No I don’t want a gunboat. I don’t want to look intimidating. Well…usually I don’t. But the less like a Federation vessel she looks, the better if your imagination can stretch that far.” She laughed at her own joke. It had been a long few weeks. “But honestly, Mr. Bog you have free reign. I need room inside for 5 people and personal gear, but all gear has to be carried, so not a lot of room is needed for cargo. Usually.”
Lt. Synthi-er

“I will see what my limited imagination can come up with, but then you have to find some one who can fly it…”

Bog’s mind was already listing the tools and equipment he needed to replicate to make the cargo bay into a small dry dock Cation field, work station…

Bog

Casela walked back into the shuttle intending to hand the controls over, but there was no need, there was no power to the old shuttle. Not enough to worry about anyway. “I leave her in your capable hands, Bog. Unfortunately I have appointments. But I shall return to help, not that it will do much good. And whenever she’s done, we’ll take her out for a test flight.” Casela left, heading back to the counseling deck for the time being.

Lt. Synthi-er, knows when she’s not needed