Posted by Lieutenant Scott Woods (Engineer) in Main Sim- Engineering (The Collapsing warp bubble problem
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NE lipscotte saw Woods smack his head stumble about and then wander aimlessly. So she dialed up a glass of water and offered Woods a seat. “I hit my head like that all the time. When someone calls for you whem your in a confined space looking up is normal. It’s a wonder we Engineers don’t end up with more head bumps than the Klingons.”, she said offering Woods the cool but not cold water, “You might want to get that checked out. But I suppose as your in command of the deck you can’t really leave. Should I ask sickbay to send a nurse down?”, the totally unremarkable Lipscotte asked with some concern.

NE Lipscotte. Engineer.

The lieutenant grunted something about not being the first or the last time something like this would happen to him today and waved a dismissive hand. “Yes well I am fine. I am sure the nursing staff have better things to deal with than a clumsy man’s mistake.” He grinned a little bit then looked around, “Where is that Caitian Ensign? I thought she was supposed to be dealing with something…”

Lt. Woods

NE Lipscotte looked about and finally shrugged, “Youl’d think someone that big would be easy to keep track off.” She said as she moved in to check Wood’s scalp. “Tsk, a bump and likely some soreness, but I guess you’ll live.” , she said dismissing her earlier concerns. “Guess it’s up to you to solve the problem.” She said as shexreturned to monitoring reactor outputs.

NELipscotte. Engineering.

Woods frowned and narrowed his eyes towards Lipscotte, “Why would she go and do that? There is a problem to be solved is there not? And to be clear I am not entirely sure what that problem is much less what has been attempted to fix it…” He looked to the consul and began pulling up files, “Can you get here back here please, Miss Lipscotte? I don’t like waiting when there are problems to solve.”

Lt. Woods

NE Lipscotte finished marking gdown her readings , “I an not qualified to interpret the motivations of non human personnel. As for why we can’t form a warp bubble I can tell you that it’s not a power systems issue. We are actually running at higher than normal efficiency.”, and she looked up reasons for the increased efficiency, “Ah thats what M’Nalie’s been doing. She has been replacing every power relay that was damaged or operating at less than peak efficiency for the last three days..”, and she frowned, “Actually for every shift for the last three days.”, and she looked at Lt Woods. “I wasn’t aware Caitan’s could go that long without sleeping sir. I know she usually does a twelve hour day. Like most of engineering I assumed she was bucking for a promòtion. Nobody likes a keener makes people doing their normal jobs look bad. Oh and I hear they called security on her because she got in a fight with the new councilor.”, NE Lipscotte said warming up to the topic now that rumors and gossip was the subject.
Even on a ship with as small a crew as the Ogawa the rumor mill was a primary source of entertainment for the crew and NE Lipscotte was a dedicated hub on the rumor mill.
“Oh here it is.”, she said, having found a relevant entry, “Ensign M’Nalie Ehenti found unfit for duty by the ships councilor.”, and she hrmm’d, “She started working imediately after this was filed and only just logged off duty.”, and she looked up at Woods with a shark sencing blood in the water type of look.

NE Lipscotte. Engineering.

Woods arched his eyebrow. “I am not sure, ensign, if we should be talking about the unfortunate health affects of being Catian,” he said in a low tone as he tapped a few buttons on his console. “Right right well anyway. We will need to figure out what we need to know about this little anomaly before it gets out of hand. Hmm.”

he processed a few more tests and waited for the computer to come back with any results he may need.

Lt. Woods
Engineering

Lipscotte turned attention to her console as well. “So what do we know and what we need to know sir? I wonder if Sciences knows anything useful about the space we are stuck in?”, she asked Woods

NE Lipscotte.