Posted by Captain Jonathan McBride (CO, USS Centurion) in USS Centurion- Putting Us Through Our Paces

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Markus Woods (Chief Star Fleet Science Officer) in USS Centurion- Putting Us Through Our Paces

Posted by Captain Jonathan McBride (CO, USS Centurion) in USS Centurion- Putting Us Through Our Paces
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The Suutane came back registered as a civilian research ship that was more or less a kitted out runabout that was registered with the Federation Science Council and conducted small independent research projects. It was listed as being under the command of Leeann Drayman and usually had 2-4 people aboard in total. In addition to an advanced sensor suite, the ship had metaphasic shielding.

The Yalkrin System was a small, uninhabited system 2.6 ly from Oed with four planets orbiting a Class A star:

Planet	Type	Distance	Other Notes
Yalkrin I	Class B	0.8 AUs
Yalkrin II	Class N	4 AUs
Yalkrin III	Class J	6 AUs	5 satellites
Yalkrin IV	Class C	11 AUs	Planetoid

The current hypothesis for the large distance between Yalkrin I and II is that there was once another planet there that was knocked out of the system.

Yalkrin III, the gas giant, was about the size of Saturn at 102 ,000 km in diameter. Its metallic core was surrounded by hydrogen (89%) and helium (11%) and with a density lower than water, a surface pressure of 140 kPa, and was 95 times the mass of Earth. It had a magnetosphere slightly less than Earth’s. It’s solar year was roughly 6989 Earth days and it’s rotational period was 16 hours.

It had 5 moons, none of which had an atmosphere and were basically all large rocks:
Moon A: 1.2 day orbit- 286 km in diameter
Moon B: 5.7 day orbit- 1,123 km in diameter
Moon C: 22 day orbit- 4,905 km in diameter
Moon D: 43 day orbit- 1756 km in diameter

“Helm, alter our course for the Yalkrin System. Warp 9.5 as long as we can sustain and then drop us to Warp 8,” McBride ordered. “What would our ETA be?”

The helm took a moment to work it out and looked over their shoulder. “Just over 10 hours, Captain. Changing course and speed.”

Jonathan nodded before opening a comm line. =/\=Bridge to Engineering. We’re responding to a distress call and we’re going to push the engines as long as we can, then drop to Warp 8. Helm says it’ll take us 10 hours. Let me know if that number can improve.=/\=

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Hannah nodded in agreement with Cattaneo. “A backup is always ideal. They reported a head injury so it is possible, at least that one individual will not be safe for the transporter.” And there was of course the usual technical and scientific considerations. Like not being able to beam down because of some sort of interference.

Asimina, AMO

Tiberius was interested in knowing what the captain thought of the idea. He had not heard much yet out of her so maybe it was a good idea. Tiberius then said, “I am still not picking up much on sensors yet but I am still keeping an eye on it until we get to the location to begin the away mission.” He was hoping nothing major would happen so far so they could rescue the people on the shuttle craft but he always knew something could happen. He was still astonished by the looks of Asimina but wanted to hide it from everyone. It had been a while since he had seen anyone as attractive as the doctor in a long time. He just gave her a smile while waited to hear from the captain.

Lt Cmdr Cattaneo
COS

Mark frowned. “Why go over at all? We could just tractor or transport the vessel into one of the cargo bays, the former through the external access bay doors. It’s not a full shuttle bay but it should have enough room to work. It would be pressurized, with gravity and atmo.” A runabout was bigger than a shuttle, but not terribly so .It wouldn’t fit in either of the auxiliary craft bays, but the cargo bays were bigger. Though it would likely be a tight squeeze.

Lt Cmdr Woods, CSO

Tiberius looked over at Mark and thought for a few seconds. He was unsure if the ship would fit or not but it might be a good idea. He then responded to Mark and said, “We might need to get with engineering in order to determine if it would fit in the ship. I would believe its probably not possible since we are in an Avenger class vessel. But it might because there is already a runabout on the vessel. ” He was curious what the captian thought about this idea. He then said to the captain, “What do you think about having the ship pulled into one of the cargo bays if confirmed to fit?” He then waited on a response.

Lt Cmdr Cattaeno
SFCOS

“What variables would we have to consider? Any risks?” Jonathan said.

Sharah turned from where she was working to face Woods and spoke quietly, “We need to talk.” Then she turned fully to face Cattaeno and McBride. “We would still need to do an assessment. The cargo transporters are the only transporters with enough power to grab a runabout. They aren’t configured for living matter. They can be adjusted, but then we lose power to beam a shuttle up. The tractor beam is risky as well, until we know the structural damage. We could move it and cause further damage and injury to the crew.”

After hearing that from the medical chief, Tiberius thought this would be an issue. He believed getting a scan and getting some current accurate data would be ideal before making a decision. He knew having the data was the most important to know how best to move forward. Having different ideas were always good and having discussions and get everything out there because others might come up with something he didn’t think about. Tiberius believed that going down to the shuttle/runabout is probably the best option but giving options is always best so the captain to make the decision on the best plan of action. He waited to hear for everyone else and to hear what the plan was going to be moving forward.

Lt Cmdr Cattaneo
SFCOS

Fayth, CMO

Hannah nodded in agreement, “Medically speaking, Captain, I would much prefer to go down and assess them before moving them. Assuming it is safe to do so, of course.”

Asimina, AMO

[bump]

OOC: Not sure if we are still supposed to be running with this or not.

Lt Cmdr Cattaneo
SFCOS

OOC: We are. I’m just not doing very well and struggling to come fully off LOA. I’m also going to jump ahead in time soon as well, since there is only so much we can do so far away.

Mark listened as the others played mental tennis with the idea. The concerns were valid and similar to his own. The cargo transporters were problematic, as was trying to move that much material at once, especially for an Avenger-class. Maybe a science vessel could, or possibly one of the heavy explorers, since they had much bigger power plants and could leverage more transporter pads. Even then it would require algorithms working together to sync the whole operation, and make sure the pieces were assembled correctly again. And then there was the computing power required to map, disassemble, and reassemble all the mass in those patterns alone. The programming he and the chief engineer could do. But there were just some hard limits they couldn’t get around with the limited resources of the Avenger.

“Actually it’s moot,” Mark said after a minute. “Even if we had the space, Doctor Fayth is right about the transporters. And even if we cobbled together a hybrid transporter system, we just don’t have the computing power for the whole pattern to move it all of it in one piece. Not on the Centurion.” He sighed. “Good thought exercise though, I suppose. And it’s a dumb risk we don’t need to take. Maybe if we had weeks or months to find work-arounds.” He shook his head.

Impossible was a word he hated, but in this case, they just didn’t have it, not with the circumstances as they were. Better to work within the constraints of reality.

Mark lapsed into stony silence, watching the scanners as data came back. Idly he shifted through various sections of the full spectrum analysis, looking for the tiniest hint of anything that stuck out even the slightest bit. Though hours away, it was likely futile.

Lt Cmdr Woods, CSO

((I haven’t heard otherwise…

Sam h. ))

The sensors didn’t have anything new just now.

While it might seem odd for McBride to be more on the quiet side right now, there was a method to his madness that wasn’t abut personality or even personal command style, even if it all gelled quite nicely at the moment. Right now, he was listening and learning. Learning how each person thought, how they handled group tasks and offering their own expertise. He wanted to see where their group strengths were and what might be potential weaknesses they had to work on. So right now he was happy to let them troubleshoot the issues.

“Let’s have a shuttle prepped and ready to go in case transporters aren’t an option. I want an away team ready to either beam down or go by shuttle. We still have lots of time, but we’ll see if engineering can get us there a little faster. Commander Cattaneo, you’ll lead the away. Pick your members and make sure everyone is ready.”

Captain McBride, CO

“Are we going to try to recover any of the wreckage, or tow the craft back to the colony,” Mark asked when there was a moment. Presumably there might be an investigation to follow as well. In which case, they’d need a hand with either matter. And of course, the lab would have to be ready in case of said investigation. But still being hours out,t ehre was nothing else to do in the interim, except continue scanning ahead.

Lt Cmdr Woods, CSO

“If we can? Yes. But let’s get there and see what’s we’re working with,” the captain said. “If you want to work through what that might look like, by all means.”

Captain McBride, CO

Mark nodded. “Aye, Captain.” For now, they were still too far away to have an accurate idea of the situation ‘on the ground’. But the closer they were, the more they would know. “Will let you know when we have some idea on that.”

woods, CSO