Commander Lael Rosek-Skyfire: Voles and Conduits, Oh My! (Pt. 2)
Lael Rosek-Skyfire
It felt good getting her hands dirty again. Though she had developed a fondness for leadership and command, her first love would always be engineering. Fixing things and building things. There was something so immensely satisfying in seeing the lights and hearing the gentle hum of a machine coming to life that she built circuit by circuit and algorithm by algorithm.
She glanced around the room, seeing the others hard at work finishing up the last touches. Vanlith had joked about a cocktail to make things better when Robin returned to find her quarters not quite as she'd left them. But, in all seriousness, Lael hoped that the first officer wouldn't be overly upset.
Vanlith: How are we looking with set up? Is power confirmed at the other terminals? Just finishing this one.
Rosek-Skyfire: I've checked all the algorithms and everything should line up and function like it's supposed to.
Moore: Running the last of the cables now!
Saavei: Response
A familiar hum of mechanics coming to life filled the room.
Vanlith: This one is all good.
Moore: And I am seeing a solid connection to the station’s computer core. Speed isn’t as fast as Ops, but given the lack of networking traffic with everyone gone, we should be golden.
Rosek-Skyfire: Jury-rigged systems never seem to work quite as good as the original. Besides which, I don't believe residential quarters were designed for this sort of power. We'll have to be careful.
Vanlith/Saavei: Response
She was just getting ready to test a simple set of commands in the console when the familiar chirp of her combadge echoed in the room.
Wong: =/\=Aloha? This is Lieutenant Wong. I’m going to be on my way up with some hypos of lectrazine-hyronalyn and a portable replicator.=/\=
Rosek-Skyfire: ::taps her combadge:: =/\=Acknowledged, Doctor. I assume Doctor Skyfire left behind the instructions for my injection?=/\=
There were definitely downsides to being allergic to the radiation inoculations. There was something in the hyronalin that her system just wouldn't tolerate. At least not without comas and seizures.
Vanlith/Saavei: Response
Wong: =/\=Please no transporters. I’m not exactly keen to have my body scattered to the four corners of the Outpost if we have a mishap.=/\=
Vanlith/Saavei: Response.
Wong: =/\=I tend to file transporter accidents on the list of things in space that kind of want you dead.=/\=
Lael shook her head. While she usually wasn't adverse to the use of transporters, her husband had been particularly paranoid since the two of them had learned of her pregnancy. It had meant a lot more walking than was comfortable. Of course, he didn't have unfettered access to the transporter logs and she did cheat every once in a while. A pregnant woman could only walk so much before her feet were screaming and threatening to fall off.
Rosek-Skyfire: =/\= Fair enough. =/\=
Vanlith/Saavei: Response.
Wong: =/\=Uh…. Question? How stable are the turbolifts right now? Because right now, there’s one between me and you.=/\=
Vanlith/Saavei: Response.
Wong: =/\=AHHH!!! STARS!!!=/\=
Before she could give the order, Lieutenant Moore was already on it.
Vanlith/Saavei: Response.
Wong: =/\=Sorry. It’s one of Orrey’s stupid vole—er— weasel things jumped out at me. You know it occurs to me that I don’t think we ever settled on a proper name for these things yet. But anyways, side note - we have a rodent problem. Apparently, some of them made their way to engineering.=/\=
Wonderful. Just what they needed. The equivalent to tribbles in Engineering. Whoever thought those stupid things were cute had truly never experienced how much of an annoyance they could be.
Moore: =/\= Those aren’t the conduit-eating kind, are they? =/\=
Vanlith/Saavei: Response.
Rosek-Skyfire: ::frowns:: =/\= There's different kinds?=/\=
Wong: =/\=Response.=/\=
Moore: =/\= Well, have we tried shooting them? I am seeing a few more around you, and we really don’t need anything chewing on the EPS relays or causing a fire.=/\=
Rosek-Skyfire: =/\= Shooting them may not be the best option, depending on how many there are. Is there possibly a way to put them to sleep without putting the lieutenant to sleep? Induce hibernation or something? Or we can just beam them somewhere else where they will be less trouble? =/\=
Vanlith/Saavei: Response.
Wong: =/\=Response=/\=
Rosek-Skyfire: =/\= Whatever we're going to do, we need them someplace where they're not going to cause damage that we just don't have time to fix. We can't afford to lose any power right now. We need everything we've got. =/\=
Vanlith/Saavei/Moore: Response
Wong: =/\=Response=/\=
Rosek-Skyfire: ::to Vanlith:: What do you think? Will it work without turning us into sitting ducks?
Vanlith: Response
Saavei/Moore: Response
Wong: =/\=Response=/\=