Posted by Civilian Captain Khain (Captain of the I.K.S. Khazad’hea) in Runabout Fenrir - “Scattered Memories”

Posted by Lieutenant Junior Grade Toveka Brine (Science Officer) in Runabout Fenrir - “Scattered Memories”

Posted by Lieutenant Duncan Rhodes (Chief Science Officer) in Runabout Fenrir - “Scattered Memories”
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Toveka followed behind him and locked herself to the deck plates a step behind him, closer to the opening. She glanced around and used her own tricorder to confirm the readings. “Well, if the power is coming from someplace other than the bridge, we should see what it is.” Her voice was steady, but Rhodes would recognize the hint of second guessing herself in the timber of her words.

“Easy Brine” Duncan said softly into the comm, “We got this. The ships deserted, no life sign readings and it’s been here long enough that I doubt it’s going to fall apart now. The Star Empire built their ships to last, and whatever that power reading is, this thing has contained it well enough for years. Now lets go.”

Unlike a moment ago, she took the lead and followed the power signature they were both getting. Rhodes was her Chief. There was no reason for him to be first thru the door if something were to go awry. “What do you think could give off this kind of power? If I know my schematics, we are above and passing the engineering bay. So it’s not the core of the ship we are reading. Is it?” She glanced over her shoulder at her boss then looked forward before seeing his reaction.

Toveka
Science

“It’s not the Core” Duncan explained, “These ships use an artificial micro singularity to power them, if that was what we were reading, we would be in all sorts of bother as we got pulled into a black hole” he grinned at her through his visor, wondering if she noted the tease.

“What we are reading, is something far more powerful. It’s unstable and I’ve never seen an energy signature like it, my tricorder cannot identify it either. It looks like we might have found something completely unknown to the Federation that the Romulans were carrying.” He reached out and put his hand on Brines shoulder to stop her a moment. “It might be what we are looking for, we will know soon.”

Presently, the two came to a large door that appeared to lead into one of the storage bays. Without power however, the doors were not about to open and after being exposed to the vacuum of space, appeared almost frozen shut. “What do you think?” he asked Toveka. “We could try cutting through, or see if we can wire our suits or Tricorders to the door to give it enough power to open. The energy signature is on the other side, I don’t appear to be getting any radiation readings from it.”

Lt Rhodes, CSO

Toveka caught the hint of jest and smiled. She wasn’t one for jokes, but his comment was enough to ease some of the tension between her shoulder blades. As they arrived at the door, his deductions and suggestions made sense. “We shouldn’t risk the suits’ powers. We aren’t sure what’s the power issue on the other side, or if it’s tied into the ship.” She pocketed her tricorder and rummaged around in her small pouch for a moment. Coming up with the tool needed for opening the power panel beside the door, she began removing the panel, the small attachment tips stayed in the panel holes because of self seating edges. She set the panel on the floor, removed her tricorder once more and pulled the jumper cord from the wall.

Glancing back at her companion, Toveka shrugged, a rare nervous gesture, and murmured, “Here goes…” She plugged the tricorder in and tried to get the power to sinc up enough to get the door to open.

Toveka
Science

The doors could be heard powering up, and then they began to open with a vibration that, if the sound couldn’t be heard in space, the vibration could definitely be felt. Then they jammed. They were open enough so that a hand, arm, could be pushed through and in the space beyond could be seen a large device illuminated only by the light of their suits flickering through the door, and something else they couldn’t yet make out.

“Keep the power going.” Duncan said to Brine as he put his shoulder and body between the doors, and pushed them to help them open. For long seconds it was hopeless, and then with a sudden release the doors opened enough so that they could walk through unhindered. Pulling himself upright again, Duncan nodded and grinned at Brine. “Good work,” he said, “now lets go and see what treasure this wreck has for us.”

Walking through the cargo doors Duncan flicked his light to wide beams and pulled out his own tricorder again. The power reading was almost off the scale, but no radiation could be detected. Duncan frowned as he looked at the readings. “Toveka,” he said, using her first name, “this energy is huge, it’s reading off the chart and there is no anti-matter reactor in here, and it’s clean.” He said with an obvious emphasis on the last word. “No radiation, and it is reading more powerful in magnitudes over a warp reactor. What the heck have they got?” Duncan looked up from his tricorder and Brine and paused again. “Oh.”

The wall and ceiling above them had been ripped open and was exposed to space, the light of the Romulan star was what had been illuminating the room faintly. Most of the cargo on board had long since floated out and away, but the large device where the reading was coming from, seemed bolted to the ground of the Warbird. It was far too large to move.

Walking forwards, Duncan and Brine soon identified a panel on the machine with a console next to it. Like the doors, the console was without power although the device itself had lights on it indicating it was powered somehow. The panel had a series of markings on it that Duncan couldn’t make out. To Toveka, it would translate as Primary Omega Stabilization Core.

“We could open this,” Duncan said to her, “the console may have information we need if we can get it running again.”

Lt Rhodes, CSO