07-25-2024, 09:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-25-2024, 09:12 PM by Altairi Hydish.)
A familiar, busy atmosphere had accompanied the lights' return to Engineering. As Altairi pried open the maintenance hatch leading in, he found every console in sight already manned, and just about his entire department scattered around the room.
Home sweet home.
He turned around. Kedus had just climbed out and was now standing at attention, waiting for orders. She still looked concerned, but at least he hadn't totally compromised his authority.
You slipped up. It doesn't matter.
You froze in front of a subordinate. You know better.
"Go help Vlokar with the engines. I'll take a look at the slipstream drive."
After a quick circle across the deck, he found Laate with the relevant monitors already pulled up. Starfleet could say what it wanted about the Philadelphia's former crew, but it couldn't raise many complaints about their professionalism.
When he was mulling through Nahamcam's journals, the subject of the Yeager's slipstream drive had come up a few times. Theoretically its operation would be close enough to the Philly's, having been lifted directly from a Pathfinder, but he had no records of flight testing to base that assumption off of. The same benamite shortage that had clipped his previous assignment's wings had awarded this particular drive an experimental status. Whether or not it and its associated subroutines were adequately calibrated for the Yeager's spaceframe, he'd find out in the next hour.
Damn you, Nahamcam.
The first hurdle on a slipstream voyage was to break the quantum barrier, which meant the ship's deflector had to be both operational and have an adequate supply of energy to reroute. He could see Laate already checking for those conditions.
The next hurdle was staying in slipstream, a concern that had been the ire of the Corps of Engineers following Voyager's return. Fail to keep up with the quantum field's phase variance, and... He wasn't exactly looking forward to appearing inside a planet.
Starfleet sensors and computing had come a long way since the early days of slipstream, but it didn't hurt to be cautious, especially with the Yeager's systems already proving to be erratic. The last thing he wanted was to put his trust in any particular, fallable computer.
"I'm going to need as many units as we can running the phase variance computations. We'll go by majority rule, but I want to be notified of any discrepancies." He waited for a quick acknowledgement from Laate, then took a few steps back to tap his comm badge.
[Hydish to Commander Qi, we're getting ready to spool up the Slipstream Drive. If you or your people can offer any data or processing time to keep our calculations in line, we'd appreciate it.]
== GM: What's the status of the engines and the slipstream drive? And what am I going to have to hit with a hyperspanner to keep them working? ==
Home sweet home.
He turned around. Kedus had just climbed out and was now standing at attention, waiting for orders. She still looked concerned, but at least he hadn't totally compromised his authority.
You slipped up. It doesn't matter.
You froze in front of a subordinate. You know better.
"Go help Vlokar with the engines. I'll take a look at the slipstream drive."
After a quick circle across the deck, he found Laate with the relevant monitors already pulled up. Starfleet could say what it wanted about the Philadelphia's former crew, but it couldn't raise many complaints about their professionalism.
When he was mulling through Nahamcam's journals, the subject of the Yeager's slipstream drive had come up a few times. Theoretically its operation would be close enough to the Philly's, having been lifted directly from a Pathfinder, but he had no records of flight testing to base that assumption off of. The same benamite shortage that had clipped his previous assignment's wings had awarded this particular drive an experimental status. Whether or not it and its associated subroutines were adequately calibrated for the Yeager's spaceframe, he'd find out in the next hour.
Damn you, Nahamcam.
The first hurdle on a slipstream voyage was to break the quantum barrier, which meant the ship's deflector had to be both operational and have an adequate supply of energy to reroute. He could see Laate already checking for those conditions.
The next hurdle was staying in slipstream, a concern that had been the ire of the Corps of Engineers following Voyager's return. Fail to keep up with the quantum field's phase variance, and... He wasn't exactly looking forward to appearing inside a planet.
Starfleet sensors and computing had come a long way since the early days of slipstream, but it didn't hurt to be cautious, especially with the Yeager's systems already proving to be erratic. The last thing he wanted was to put his trust in any particular, fallable computer.
"I'm going to need as many units as we can running the phase variance computations. We'll go by majority rule, but I want to be notified of any discrepancies." He waited for a quick acknowledgement from Laate, then took a few steps back to tap his comm badge.
[Hydish to Commander Qi, we're getting ready to spool up the Slipstream Drive. If you or your people can offer any data or processing time to keep our calculations in line, we'd appreciate it.]
== GM: What's the status of the engines and the slipstream drive? And what am I going to have to hit with a hyperspanner to keep them working? ==