03-18-2025, 10:33 PM
The young ensign's voice came through his commbadge fairly swiftly. [Han to Chief, they messed up their engines by rerouting their baffles and so we had a fun explosion but so far so good,] she said. [I have the engine shut down now, and while we’re spinning, it seems to be stable enough. I’m looking for anything that could tell us what the Klingon were doing to need that much power. They’re lucky they didn’t blow themselves up before we got here.]
He nodded, chuckling to himself despite the seriousness of the situation. "That's the truth," he told her. "You'd be amazed at some of the patch jobs I've seen attempted, particularly when they're Klingons and untrained." For a moment he almost started relating the story of a Klingon ship he serviced during the last bit of the Dominion War that had just barely made it back to port with a pair of torpedo casings doing duty as a plasma manifold and the interlocks completely disengaged, but he decided against it at the last moment. He could still hear the curses Chief O'Brien spat echoing through his ears today. "Just make sure that life support is still functioning, even if it's on batteries, and everything else is shut off. Then I'd report in to Lieutenant Calleja. Somehow I doubt we're going to get that thing up and running again anytime soon. Keep in touch, and if you need assistance, just call back." He tapped his badge and closed the channel.
For his part, with the diagnostic having reported the tractor beam being out of commission, Jaein started trying to think of some backup options. The first and easiest, as far as he could tell, would be to launch some shuttles to help hold it in position. He turned to the helm and the FO. "Do we have any shuttles on standby? If we could launch a couple, they could likely get a grip on it between them and help stabilize the freighter for us."
==Tags to all involved==
==GM Input on the shuttles? We have options, maybe?==
He nodded, chuckling to himself despite the seriousness of the situation. "That's the truth," he told her. "You'd be amazed at some of the patch jobs I've seen attempted, particularly when they're Klingons and untrained." For a moment he almost started relating the story of a Klingon ship he serviced during the last bit of the Dominion War that had just barely made it back to port with a pair of torpedo casings doing duty as a plasma manifold and the interlocks completely disengaged, but he decided against it at the last moment. He could still hear the curses Chief O'Brien spat echoing through his ears today. "Just make sure that life support is still functioning, even if it's on batteries, and everything else is shut off. Then I'd report in to Lieutenant Calleja. Somehow I doubt we're going to get that thing up and running again anytime soon. Keep in touch, and if you need assistance, just call back." He tapped his badge and closed the channel.
For his part, with the diagnostic having reported the tractor beam being out of commission, Jaein started trying to think of some backup options. The first and easiest, as far as he could tell, would be to launch some shuttles to help hold it in position. He turned to the helm and the FO. "Do we have any shuttles on standby? If we could launch a couple, they could likely get a grip on it between them and help stabilize the freighter for us."
==Tags to all involved==
==GM Input on the shuttles? We have options, maybe?==