Lieutenant JG Lystra - Where there's smoke, there's fire
Rameses
((Sick Bay - Enterprise ))
Lystra: I doubt that’ll be the last one we bring in. ::She stated to the physicians:: Alright, first stop. Get a phaser and a cutter. The phaser in case we have to get through anything that we can’t force open by hand. And should we look for a proper stretcher, or save those for Sickbay and go make another makeshift one?
T'Seva: :: glancing at the medical staff :: Do you have one to spare for us?
Bones: Chapel, give them the bloody thing.
Lystra would have to ask Cade if he was related to McCoy at some point or if they took the same ‘grumpy, sassy doctor course’.
The Boslic nodded to the two of them and thought to where they might find an engineering kit. It took a couple of tries to find a case in one of the maintenance areas that hadn’t already been cleared out by an Engineer in need of a toolkit, to get one they could take. So she grabbed the cutter.
Lystra: Alright. We have a cutter now. There should be a weapon’s locker on the fore side of the deck. We should stop there before we look for more. ::She had a thought:: It might expedite our efforts if we ask where the worst damage on the ship is and start there. Chances are anyone in those areas are probably going to be like our last patient. Right? ::She looked at Oz::
T'Seva: That would be logical.
Malyz: The worst damage will be in the disabled parts and if anyone is in those we will be too late. Without life support they wouldn't have made it long. We should just move out and... look.
She caught the look Oz gave them and she nodded in understanding. Since they were stuck having to use the older tricorders, relying on a telepath’s senses would likely be faster and more reliable.
Lystra: Understood.
T'Seva: We also need something to strap patients down. Our next patient, we might be maneuvering them through Jeffries Tubes.
That was a great idea.
Malyz: Agreed, with the lifts being as unreliable as they are, if not broken. I did not trust the one I was in for more than a deck at a time.
Lystra: Yeah. I’m glad the last one we used didn’t give us issues, given how bad that patient was. But we shouldn’t push our luck with them.
T'Seva: There's straps here, if nobody here needs them?
Lystra quickly stepped out to grab a phaser and rejoined them before Oz advised they leave.
Malyz: Let's get back out.
She followed Oz and fell in step to his right, her eyes shifted between her own tricorder and their surroundings for the next possible person who needed their help.
Lystra: Where too?
T'Seva: response
Malyz: I suggest that we return to the area where we found the last one, if that one quarter was in such a bad shape, others may too. Let's move through the corridor and keep your feelers out. Sounds okay?
She nodded in agreement and looked up to keep a bead on where they were going. Last thing she needed was to run into a wall because she had her nose in an old tricorder.
Lystra: Works for me. Hopefully there aren’t that many in need of that level of medical aid.
T'Seva: response
Malyz: I really wonder what happened that so many sections had to be disabled. The ship is barely manned any more. Though lucky the important parts seem to be functional.
He had a good point. This whole ship should have around two hundred people on it to operate properly. And unlike modern Starfleet vessels, they didn’t have the same level of automation that could permit a skeleton crew to man it as well. Though, if she recalled her history from the Academy she could swear she remembered there was at least one instance where Kirk and his officers had taken a ship just on their own.
Lystra: True. And Sickbay isn’t that big. We’re also only seeing one deck. Chances are everyone's just trying to get the ship working again.
As one would expect. But why the ship was in the state it was in was the question. It shouldn’t be the nebula itself, because their shuttles made it through just fine. Unless, the nebula has a quality that modern Starfleet vessels are protected against, but those of Kirk’s era weren’t.
T'Seva/Malyz: response
Lystra: What could have happened to cause this much damage to the ship? When we approached I didn’t see any signs of a battle.
A few minutes of searching the corridor they were in had them pass near a secondary maintenance room of some kind. Faint wisps of smoke drifted out from the seams. Her tricorder chirped.
T'Seva/Malyz: response
Lystra: There’s a fire in that room. Doesn’t look like the suppression systems kicked in. But I can’t tell if there’s anyone inside. Oz? ::She looked to the medic::
T'Seva/Malyz: response
Lystra: ::She placed her gloved right hand on the door:: It’s not hot. The fire isn’t up near this door. We should grab some handheld fire suppressors before we try and open this door. ::To Oz:: Anything else we should get too? What are our concerns going into that room, for us and anyone inside?
She knew they would likely need rebreathers to avoid any smoke inhalation, but this was Oz’s area of expertise. She had the standard Security training when it came to dealing with shipboard fires. But it never hurts to double check with the person who’d be patching everyone up if they forgot something.
T'Seva/Malyz: response
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Lieutenant JG Lystra
Tactical/Security Officer
USS Constitution-B NCC-9012-B
SB118 Podcast Team
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