Ensign Frank Montanari - Cutting it Close

[Christopher Kadish]

((Sick Bay - Deck 5 - USS Icarus))

Lystra: Oh, great. Must be a Tuesday. ::she grumbled:: I can confirm, Cade. Power to the transporter just dipped slightly. We may have to try beaming them in groups faster than we anticipated. ::to Frank:: So, if the hyperwarp drive turns on we’ll all end up jumping through subspace again…right?

Montanari: :Eyes widen:: If it's charging for a jump, that means it's on a timer! Unless you want to go where we did and come back in another century or so, we need to either turn it off, or abandon ship!

Pretak: Respond

Douffet: Respond

Byrnes: Respond

S’Jenes: Based upon previous observations, that is the most probable outcome. I recommend we complete the evacuation before the drive reaches full activation.

Foster: So we have to get as many as possible as fast as possible before we all end up stuck in another subspace rift. ::he looked towards Lystra:: How many can we lock onto with our current set up?

Lystra: I just did a test to see how many solid transporter locks we can get. Any more than four and the lock becomes unstable on all of them. Unless they can give us more power I think that’s the best we’re going to get. We don’t have any more power units. 

Foster: Ok, grab four, right now. I’m checking if we can… you know, make some magic happen.

S'Jenes immediately began comparing the transporter telemetry from the previous cycle against the current power curve. Overlay after overlay filled the LCARS display as he isolated transporter lock acquisition, pattern buffering, EPS consumption, and transport initiation.

Pretak: Respond

Douffet: Respond

Byrnes: Respond

S’Jenes:  Lieutenant... transporter lock acquisition is not the limiting factor. Significant power consumption occurs only during matter stream conversion.

Lystra: Lock is holding. Ready when you are, or we’re going to have to wait until they send us more power and hope that damned engine doesn’t activate. 

Foster: Grab four. I want to track the power curve while you grab them, and how much time it takes.

Pretak: Respond

Douffet: Respond

Montanari: What can I do to help?

Byrnes: Respond

S’Jenes: Recording. Pattern acquisition remains stable. EPS load is nominal until transport initiation.

Frank watched as a quartet of his shipmates dematerialized, then rematerialized and looking more solid than before. I hope we have the time to get everyone taken care of, otherwise we'll be trying this again 100 plus years from now!

Foster: Alright, the pattern shift is stabilized. ::He turned towards S’Jenes and Lystra:: I think we can do this. The signal lock isn’t what’s draining power – it’s the actual transport where the power drastically drops.  The system is limiting only to the signal locks it knows it can process. So… Lystra, I need you to de-activate the system’s safety protocols.

Pretak: Respond

Douffet: Respond

Montanari: Are you sure that's a good idea?

Byrnes: Respond

Lystra: Respond

S’jenes: Analysis confirms the transporter's safety algorithms are limiting signal acquisition based upon projected transport power requirements rather than available pattern storage.

Foster: Ensign S’jenes I want you to connect the Emergency Medical Transporter with the cargo transporter with the Aleek-Om.

Pretak: Respond

Douffet: Respond

Montanari: The cargo transporter? Will we have enough time for that?

Byrnes: Respond

Lystra: Respond

S’jenes: Understood.

Foster: Yeah. ::He nodded.:: The idea is to feed all the data into the Aleek Om, catch each lock, one by one with the emergency medical transporter we are currently using, feed them into the Aleek-Om’s cargo transporter and then once we’ve grabbed every signal lock, initiate transport with the Aleek-Om’s transporters and the Aleek-Om’s power.

Frank could only look on anxiously as they raced the clock to save his shipmates. He only hoped that they could save them all.

Pretak: Respond

Douffet: Respond

Montanari: ::Moves to a station to monitor the countdown to jump:: Must go faster Doc!

Byrnes: Respond

Lystra: Respond

S’jenes: Locked in, sir.

Foster: Alright, that’s the plan, let’s get on it!

Pretak: Respond

Douffet: Respond

Byrnes: Respond

Lystra: Respond

S'Jenes: =/\= Icarus sickbay to Aleek-Om Bridge. Ensign S'Jenes. Prepare your cargo transporters to receive remote pattern locks from our Emergency Medical Transporter. Please refrain from energizing until I give the command. =/\=

Anyone on the Aleek-Om bridge: =/\=Respond=/\=

S'Jenes: =/\= We will relay each acquired transporter signature to your pattern buffer. Once every life sign—including my own—has been transferred, execute transport. Please confirm readiness. =/\=

Anyone on the Aleek-Om bridge: =/\= Respond =/\=

Frank had to admit, this was a pretty savvy way to use a transporter. And it was looking like they might actually save everyone. Now hopefully they will be able to escape too!

S'Jenes: Forty-five unphased transporter signatures successfully acquired. Relay integrity remains within operational tolerances. Aleek-Om acknowledges receipt of all patterns.

He tapped his combadge.

S'Jenes: =/\= Ensign S'Jenes to Aleek-Om Bridge. All unphased personnel have been successfully relayed to your cargo transporter. Pattern integrity is nominal. You are cleared to energize all stored patterns simultaneously. Following completion of the transport, acquire and beam my pattern directly to Cargo Bay One. =/\=

Anyone on Aleek-Om Bridge: =/\= Respond=/\=

S'Jenes: All civilian and Starfleet personnel accounted for.

Foster: Respond

Lystra: Respond

Montanari: ::Letting out a held breath:: Thank you, now we should be leaving as well.!

Anyone: Respond

S’jenes: =/\= Ensign S’jenes to Icarus Deck 5. We got ‘em. =/\=

Foster: Respond

Lystra: Respond

Shimisi: Respond

Perax: Respond

Anyone: =/\= Respond =/\=

S'Jenes: =/\= Fifty total arrivals confirmed. No measurable pattern degradation detected. =/\=

Frank turned and smiled to Lt Byrnes.

Montanari: I guess it's time we rejoined our shipmates.

Byrnes: Respond

Ensign Frank Montanari
Helmsman
USS Icarus - NX-8461
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