Posted by Gamemaster Budgie (Gamemaster) in Main Sim- Main Engineering

Posted by Lieutenant McKenzie Lovejoy (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim- Main Engineering

Posted by Commander Rodrigo Saravia (Executive Officer) in Main Sim- Main Engineering
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As Lovejoy was about to leave Engineering for the conference room a marine wandered by. He slunk off to a quiet place in Engineering. He placed a device on the ground and set it off. This shut down power in Engineering instantly. The Marine then legged it out of Engineering down the corridor. Lights flickered and the engines shut down. The ship was dead in the water and there was a saboteur on the loose. The XO’s comm came through shortly afterwards =/\= Engineering why are my engines powering up, then down, and now my lights are flickering? I’ve been onboard for 45 seconds and already I’m filled with confidence.=/\=

GM Budgie

=/\= Engineering, the ship was hit with an emp wave. Get that thing in shape, ASAP =/\= Sisnil said. He looked for any other hints, anything to get the ship moving faster.

~ Zoi

=/\=EMP, understood, if there is anything else you can find, let me know=/\= Rodrigo replied as he arrived on Deck 5 and waved down a couple of ensigns and called out to Lovejoy, “We need to get this core back operational, who here has performed a rapid cold start?” He asked as he pointed towards the intermix chamber and said, “We’ll start by overloading the matter / antimatter injectors while restricting flow out of the EPS manifold. The idea is to pump the dilithium intermix chamber to saturation while keeping the reaction contained within the core rather than allowing the plasma to fill the nacelles initially. Basically we’re taking a risk that results in a quickly restarted reaction or a big boom. Any questions?”

–Saravia, XO–

“No, sir,” the nearest ensign replied. “Lieutenant, where do you want us? I have some experience with M/A reaction theory, I’d be willing to supervise the intermix unless you want to do that.”

NE Elfac
Junior Engineer

“I need you guys to start working on getting these lights worked on. Then I need one of you guys to work on the ships diagnostic on the engines. Tell me what is going on.” He ordered her two Junior Officers.

Lieutenant McKenzie Lovejoy
Chief Engineering Officer
U.S.S. Wolverine

Rodrigo turned to the Lieutenant and said quickly, “Lovejoy? Pleasure to meet you. We had an EMP go off here in Engineering, did you see anyone enter or leave that shouldn’t have been here?” He said turning to Elfac, “With me, let’s get this core back online.” He said as he began to manually adjust the injectors, “Set the intermix valves to .44 initially, then down to .32 while I get the matter / antimatter dialed in, this is a new engine for me so it cold be a little bumpy”

–Saravia, XO–

“Commander. Pleasure is all mine. I did not see anyone enter or leave that shouldn’t have been here at all. But I will get this core back online within the next half hour to an hour commander. I wish I could tell you some better news commander.” She said. “Yes commander I’ll do so.” She stood there working on the intermix valves to .44 and then down to .32. “Commander I think it worked.” She said

A young engineer nearby overheard the Commander and Lt’s discussion and coughed.
“I saw someone running away shortly after power went down. I didn’t really think anything of it at the time. But it is now looking even more suspicious.” Ensign Travers said.

GM Budgie

Lieutenant McKenzie Lovejoy
Chief Engineering Officer
U.S.S. Wolverine

“Unfortunately we don’t have half an hour to an hour, we’re going to jump-start the reaction process.” Rodrigo mentioned as he heard the affirmative position of the intermix valves. “Alright” he started, his voice metallic and deep as he spoke with an unusual calm, “Once we start this, there’s we have precious little time, make sure that we’re ready to release the pre-igntion plasma from the intermix chamber and monitor for adequate gravametric displacement in the reaction. Places everyone.” He said as Ensign Travers recounted the stranger and Rodrigo swore under his breath, “Vaia por Deus!” Before he closed his one remaining eye before tapping on his badge and saying in the common tongue, =/\=Saravia to Zoi, I have reports of someone leaving Engineering quickly right before the EMP, do security logs show anyone out of place here at that time?=/\=

–Saravia, XO–

“Yes, commander, on it.” She said as she started to work on what needed to be done. She then stood there working on everything and noticed that something isn’t working well. However, she started to work on the problem. The ignition line was having a problem, but however, she started to get things worked on real quick.

=/\= “Apparently Security is guarded more closely than personnel logs. It’ll take a second…” There was the electronic clicking of a PaDD’s on screen keyboard and then Saravia could hear his grin. “Alright, let’s see....”=/\= He checked security logs for that time stamp and area. “Give me official access and I won’t have to make my own,” he muttered, unaware the comm was still linked.

~ Zoi

The grin was indeed audible from across the ship, a side effect of Sisnil’s own opinion of himself no doubt, as the message came through followed by Rodrigo tapping his badge to reply, =/\=Zat can be arranged, but for now pleez let me know what you find. I will ignore zee rest of your comment for now.=/\= Rodrigo replied, his accent a little heavier as he was more focused on getting the core back online. Turning to Lovejoy he said, “Flux limiters need to be set to only allow a flow rate of .65 and we’re sure to trip zee resonance alarms of zee MARA, assuming I read zee specs correctly on my way here. Are we ready?”

–Saravia, XO–

=/\= “A male Vulcan,” Sisnil gave a description of what he could see, “Carrying a bag, at 1400. Leaves ten minutes later without the bag.” =/\= Sisnil said.

~ Zoi

Rodrigo tapped his badge to reply quickly, =/\= See if you can track him through zee ship. I want to know every movement and I want a name ASAP =/\= he replied as he initialized the matter / antimatter injectors. As the fuel streamed into the restricted valve apertures, the alarms did indeed begin to sound as Rodrigo looked closely at the EM radiation cascading off of the MARA, his cybernetics analyzing the output for any dangerous emissions.

—Saravia, XO—
Lieutenant McKenzie Lovejoy
Chief Engineering Officer
U.S.S. Wolverine
OOC: My engineering knowledge is rather limited, so please do correct me if I’m wrong about anything! (I don’t bite.....much)
IC:
Rodrigo would note that emissions were beginning to leak out of the valve apertures, apparently the saboteur had done more than just let off the emp. This was not going to be a quick 5 minute job.

GM Budgie

McKenzie had then looked at Rodrigo. “Rodrigo. What’s the status of the valve apertures?” She looked over at him.

Lieutenant McKenzie Lovejoy
Chief Engineering Officer
U.S.S. Wolverine