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OOC: I’m guessing on my times, please adjust as needed.

IC: Navale closed her eyes and took a breath. She was NOT the chief engineer, she was not the chief engineer, she was NOT the chief engineer. Where was Maria anyway? =/\=It will be at least three hours captain before we have impulse back. Until we plug that leak and reinitialize the system we have no impulse drive. Inertial dampeners shouldn’t be a problem if we close off the areas of the breach, but shields will be an issue. We have a gaping hole in the hull and it will take hours,” she emphasized the plural, “to get something rigged to compensate enough to make landing even possible much less comfortable.=/\=

Lt. Huzzen, Engineer

=/\=Understood, Engineering. We’ll stay put and notify the Outpost. I’m on my way down there.=/\=

Captain Myqian, CO

=/\=Aye Ma’am. Engineering out.=/\= Navale looked around at the teams swarming all over the place and then went back to the main control panel to check and ensure the reroutes they had put in place were going to hold.

In the meantime Emergency Team Epsilon had arrived at the main access point to the impulse drive and they swarmed over the area trying to find the location and cause of the coolant leak.

Lt. Huzzen, Engineer

A couple minutes later, Dira strode in with an intense focus. “Report,” she said calmly. “Where are we at?” she said as she approached Huzzen.

Captain Myqian, CO

Navale looked up from the main table, “Captain,” Huzzen pointed out different displays as she spoke. “The warp drive has some kind of power feedback loop happening, the impulse drive is leaking coolant, we have power overloads all over decks 7, 8, and 9. We’ve shutdown nonessential systems and rerouted what we can. Our priority is keeping the forcefields intact and life support. I am waiting on updates from the emergency repair teams.”

Lt. Huzzen, Engineer

She nodded. “We have the emergency bulkheads engaged, so it should prevent further issues with the breach until we can make repairs,” Myqian said.

=/\=Epsilon Team to Huzzen=/\= an already tired sounding voice came over the comms, =/\=I think we have stopped the coolant leak. We have probably about 25% left in the tanks, and another little bit in the system, so you know, we have that going for us.=/\=

=/\=Is there any damage to the system from the loss of coolant? We don’t want to restart the impulse and blow up because we overheat.=/\=

“MacGuffin, how much coolant do we have in storage?” Navale asked the other engineer helping her.

MacGuffin tapped away and pulled up the inventory report, showing it on the screen for Huzzen. “Depending on the size of the leak we could get to the outpost without much trouble. I wouldn’t recommend doing anything hot such as visiting stars or nebulas on our way there. Assuming the rate of leakage is constant.”

A few moments later, the NE for Alpha team added in, =/\=So’Tar here. Well.... If you don’t mind flying with one nacelle we would be ok going to warp.=/\= An anxious chuckle followed by, =/\=Also, has anyone seen power conduits… sparkle? Like glitter got in the plasma flow.=/\=

GM Wombat

=/\=We don’t want to be flying in circl…wait? Did you say glitter? Connect me to a visual feed of what you are looking at.=/\=

Lt. Huzzen, Engineer

They were close enough to base for a tow, so Dira wasn’t worried about warp, but she was worried about whatever caused her little drill to go so sideways. They would have to do a post-mortem on the entire sequence of events, but right now she was focused on making sure the damage didn’t expand and no more of her crew was put at risk.

At the mention of glitter, the captain frowned and waited for the visual, all the while something in her memory prickled.

Captain Myqian, CO

Bump

MacGuffin tapped away again and brought up So’Tar’s tricorder readings and visual from her helmet. What greeted the captain and the two engineers was something like a unicorn barffed on the side of the jefferies tube. Purple sparkles lined the whole surface, glimmering with radiant energy

GM Wombat