08-01-2024, 03:15 PM
Ian wasn’t sure how he liked working on a starship so far. That is, a working starship. There was so much going on, and he wanted his hand in everything, and there were too many people. He felt rattled. Then, main power to Engineering crapped out, and he found himself unable to pinpoint what he wanted to do. When power did return, he felt himself take a true, deep breath, and found himself surprised that it came out shaky.
As he started to pick up the pieces of his confidence, the idea and implementation of using a Slipstream Drive was being bandied about. As his hands moved slower and slower across the console he was stationed at, Ian realized that he was out of his element. Slipstream theory was out of his league, let alone practical implementation.
Wanting to study it more than take part in it, Ian made himself take a half-step back from his computer and observe. His head was spinning, trying to follow the energy through the main deflector, into the focused quantum field, and past the quantum barrier. But this was something he needed to sit with and study for hours, not watch happen in a matter of seconds. He wanted to watch it happen again and again, and then run his own experiments, his own variations on the idea in order to understand how it worked and how he could tweak it. The numbers of the phase variance bounced around him, and he couldn’t figure their pattern.
And then it was over. Though he had taken no part in it, Ian felt a sense of exhilaration, of adrenaline, and for the first time in quite a while, knew he wasn’t the smartest person in the room, and that excited him.
As he started to pick up the pieces of his confidence, the idea and implementation of using a Slipstream Drive was being bandied about. As his hands moved slower and slower across the console he was stationed at, Ian realized that he was out of his element. Slipstream theory was out of his league, let alone practical implementation.
Wanting to study it more than take part in it, Ian made himself take a half-step back from his computer and observe. His head was spinning, trying to follow the energy through the main deflector, into the focused quantum field, and past the quantum barrier. But this was something he needed to sit with and study for hours, not watch happen in a matter of seconds. He wanted to watch it happen again and again, and then run his own experiments, his own variations on the idea in order to understand how it worked and how he could tweak it. The numbers of the phase variance bounced around him, and he couldn’t figure their pattern.
And then it was over. Though he had taken no part in it, Ian felt a sense of exhilaration, of adrenaline, and for the first time in quite a while, knew he wasn’t the smartest person in the room, and that excited him.