Ensign Jori Mec - Team Work, Dream Work, etc
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Mars Elliot Hallman
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to USS Constitution-B – StarBase 118 Star Trek PBEM RPG
((Main Engineering, Deck 36, USS Constitution-B, End of Third Shift))
Jori Mec was beginning to fall in love.
The Constitution-B's Engineering section was the place, and the object of his affections wasn't quite the ship herself - rather, it was all of the people working quietly, diligently, and proudly to keep her humming along. He hadn't even noticed he was humming along with the ambient noise of the warp core until he heard a harmonizing vocalization from a Bolian crew mate working nearby.
Mec: ::smiling bashfully:: Oh! Sorry, Bellu, I didn't see you there.
Ensign Bellu had a radiant, bifurcated smile and a tittering laugh.
Bellu: You're early, Jori. Are you not sleeping well?
Mec: I just wanted to get a jump on the day, is all.
Bellu: Mmmhm. You're headed the right way for a quick burnout, if you ask me.
oO I didn't ask her... but she means well Oo
Mec: ::inclining his head politely:: I defer to the opinion of my senior, of course.
Bellu: ::She mocked swatting at him with her PADD:: I am not one cycle older than you, young man!
Jori Mec laughed and ducked her swipe, but before he could retort, Lt. Shimisi arrived, PADD in hand, looking business-like. Mec cleared his throat and tried to look ready for orders, while Bellu stifled a giggle of her own before returning to her own station to sign out for the day.
Back to work!
Mec: Good morning, Lieutenant.
Since Perax had a watchful eye on the warp core, Jori stood by a corner workstation on the lower level, diligently monitoring a display showing the ship's overall power demands on the energy coils, ready to call out any unusual activity as the ship entered the nebula.
oO It looks a lot like a creature breathing... Oo Lost for a moment in the rhythm of the ship, he snapped to attention at the sound of the captain's voice.
Rajel: =/\= Bridge to Engineering. I need you to try to improve our sensors. I know it’s difficult but I need to be able to see where we are flying. =/\=
Shimisi: =/\= Understood, we'll do what we can. Engineering out. =/\= :: He looked around :: All right, aside from boosting power to sensors, how can we let them see something better?
Perax: We could give them old fashioned glasses to see better. ::he said unhelpfully while chuckling, then quailing slightly under the look he got in response:: Alright, part of the problem will be to know what is wrong with the sensors. Are the sensors being reflected, refracted, absorbed? Most nebulae cause issues with the sensors, but they don’t all cause the same problem.
Mec: ::Calling up from below:: Could be more than one, depending on what this thing is made of!
Shimisi: Maybe we can use a Class four probe to go ahead and relay the information to us.
Perax: That might work if the transmission from the probe doesn’t run into problems. The nebula might interfere with communications too.
Mec: If we go the probe route, I'd recommend a full-stop and pre-programmed return route, so we could pull the data from the probe directly instead of... ::He trailed off, realizing he was suggesting telling the bridge where and when to move the ship:: That is, if the lieutenant agrees.
oO Take it easy, Ensign!! Oo
Shimisi: We can always find a good viewing port, like in ten forward, and relay the image to the bridge…
Perax: I’ll grab the telescope, or would binoculars be better. ::he grinned.::
Mec is too cowed by his own suggestion to really laugh at Shimisi, but he hides his own smile by turning his attention back to the energy readout.
Perax: I know it sounds crazy, but since a nebula is not a true vacuum, but a cloud in space, could we rig a sonar pulse to find objects... We couldn’t use natural sound waves, because we wouldn’t be able to go to warp, but maybe we could use the principle with the subspace sensors?
Mec: ::finding his "confident" voice again, for Perax's sake:: Hey, that idea is sound. If we don't want to use a probe, we could try traveling at impulse while we collect those subspace sonar pings.
Perax: We should check with science to see what the nebula is made of. That might help us find a spectrum or frequency that will help cut through the interference.
Anyone: Response
--
Ensign Jori Mec (he/him)
Engineering Officer
USS Constitution-B
C240209JM2
@marselliot on Discord (he/him)
Jori Mec was beginning to fall in love.
The Constitution-B's Engineering section was the place, and the object of his affections wasn't quite the ship herself - rather, it was all of the people working quietly, diligently, and proudly to keep her humming along. He hadn't even noticed he was humming along with the ambient noise of the warp core until he heard a harmonizing vocalization from a Bolian crew mate working nearby.
Mec: ::smiling bashfully:: Oh! Sorry, Bellu, I didn't see you there.
Ensign Bellu had a radiant, bifurcated smile and a tittering laugh.
Bellu: You're early, Jori. Are you not sleeping well?
Mec: I just wanted to get a jump on the day, is all.
Bellu: Mmmhm. You're headed the right way for a quick burnout, if you ask me.
oO I didn't ask her... but she means well Oo
Mec: ::inclining his head politely:: I defer to the opinion of my senior, of course.
Bellu: ::She mocked swatting at him with her PADD:: I am not one cycle older than you, young man!
Jori Mec laughed and ducked her swipe, but before he could retort, Lt. Shimisi arrived, PADD in hand, looking business-like. Mec cleared his throat and tried to look ready for orders, while Bellu stifled a giggle of her own before returning to her own station to sign out for the day.
Back to work!
Mec: Good morning, Lieutenant.
Since Perax had a watchful eye on the warp core, Jori stood by a corner workstation on the lower level, diligently monitoring a display showing the ship's overall power demands on the energy coils, ready to call out any unusual activity as the ship entered the nebula.
oO It looks a lot like a creature breathing... Oo Lost for a moment in the rhythm of the ship, he snapped to attention at the sound of the captain's voice.
Rajel: =/\= Bridge to Engineering. I need you to try to improve our sensors. I know it’s difficult but I need to be able to see where we are flying. =/\=
Shimisi: =/\= Understood, we'll do what we can. Engineering out. =/\= :: He looked around :: All right, aside from boosting power to sensors, how can we let them see something better?
Perax: We could give them old fashioned glasses to see better. ::he said unhelpfully while chuckling, then quailing slightly under the look he got in response:: Alright, part of the problem will be to know what is wrong with the sensors. Are the sensors being reflected, refracted, absorbed? Most nebulae cause issues with the sensors, but they don’t all cause the same problem.
Mec: ::Calling up from below:: Could be more than one, depending on what this thing is made of!
Shimisi: Maybe we can use a Class four probe to go ahead and relay the information to us.
Perax: That might work if the transmission from the probe doesn’t run into problems. The nebula might interfere with communications too.
Mec: If we go the probe route, I'd recommend a full-stop and pre-programmed return route, so we could pull the data from the probe directly instead of... ::He trailed off, realizing he was suggesting telling the bridge where and when to move the ship:: That is, if the lieutenant agrees.
oO Take it easy, Ensign!! Oo
Shimisi: We can always find a good viewing port, like in ten forward, and relay the image to the bridge…
Perax: I’ll grab the telescope, or would binoculars be better. ::he grinned.::
Mec is too cowed by his own suggestion to really laugh at Shimisi, but he hides his own smile by turning his attention back to the energy readout.
Perax: I know it sounds crazy, but since a nebula is not a true vacuum, but a cloud in space, could we rig a sonar pulse to find objects... We couldn’t use natural sound waves, because we wouldn’t be able to go to warp, but maybe we could use the principle with the subspace sensors?
Mec: ::finding his "confident" voice again, for Perax's sake:: Hey, that idea is sound. If we don't want to use a probe, we could try traveling at impulse while we collect those subspace sonar pings.
Perax: We should check with science to see what the nebula is made of. That might help us find a spectrum or frequency that will help cut through the interference.
Anyone: Response
--
Ensign Jori Mec (he/him)
Engineering Officer
USS Constitution-B
C240209JM2
@marselliot on Discord (he/him)
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