Posted by Civilian Simon Jacobs (Journalist) in Main Sim - Operations.

Posted by Lieutenant Mike Knight (Chief Engineer) in Main Sim - Operations.

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Aaron Foley (Executive Officer) in Main Sim - Operations.
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As most bad things start, they start small. A small ping, in an engine that goes away for a little bit. That one little bump on your neck that gets ignored. That one spot of mildew on the drywall.

And so it began here. Small and innocent, undiscovered for now, but still the beginning of a bigger problem. It started with a simple spike in the environmental controls read out in operations.

NE Glastonberry narrowed her dark brown eyes at the monitor before looking over her shoulder around the room. “Lieutenant?” she meekly asked, seeking help from one of the more senior engineers. It was momentary but it was still there, something caused the temperature in one of the cargo bays to drop, ten degrees, for two minutes before it warmed back up.

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Mike made his way to her “yes crewman Glastonburry” he asked looking at her screen. His presence in engineering was that of a big brother.

Lt. Mike Knight (CE)

She looked over her shoulder at Knight and gave a relived smile. “It looks like there was a small temperature anomaly in the deck 43 cargo bay. Nothing major, but the system reported a drop in temperature of ten degrees for 127 seconds. Could it be a sensor failing?”

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Mike looked over the readings “have the computer run a level 3 diagnostic and Can you go to cargo bay on level 43 and run a link diagnostic there just to check it out” he said as he pressed a few commands.

Lt. Mike Knight (CE)

The diagnostic came back that there was a slight power blip that caused an erroneous report but other than that it seemed fine. Further digging showed that there was a cargo shipment from a cargo freighter named the Grasshopper that moved in there three days ago but there was no other activity except what was normal for the station.

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Mike had a bad feeling so he check the computer to look up reports from the cargo vessel Grasshopper and checked to see it is still docked at the station. =^= CE to security can you check some cargo in on level 43 cargo bay =^=

Lt. Mike Knight (CE)

Meanwhile, Ben could be seen through the closed transparent doors that seperated his office from the main operations area. He was clearly talking on the comm system but his words couldn’t be heard.

-Gillespie

Mike went to another consul and ran a diagnostic on the COM’s. To see if there was a problem with the COM’s. Hand through the diagnostic then tried a station wide com broadcast. =^= this is Lt. Mike Knight chief engineer of the station we are experiencing some technical difficulties and our com systems might be affected at this time if there are any other malfunctions please send someone to engineering to let us know that is all =^=

Lt. Mike Knight (CE)

“Is there something wrong Lieutenant?” Aaron asked as he stepped off the turbolift into Ops. He was just coming on to his shift. Looking around he could see the Captain over in his office, either talking to himself, or on the comm with someone.

LtCmdr Foley - XO

“Well I have a feeling that coms are down. None of my engineering staff are responding in Engineering and With the coms down who is the captain talking to“ he said as the Consol started to glitch out and try to say everything was fine “ not to mention every consul I seem to be touching is glitching out whenever I try to access engineering systems keeps on saying everything’s all right but I know they’re not”

Lt. Mike Knight(CE)

At the announcement, Ben glanced from his console. He saw his XO and CE in discussion and resumed his conversation, knowing that if it warrented his attention, they would have already knocked on the door.

-Ben

A moment later, in the chair across from Ben appeared an apparition. It was translucent but clearly a humanoid dressed in a Star Fleet operations uniform wearing the pips of a lieutenant.

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