Ensign Maezel Fenn – The Power of Stability
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Mar 29, 2026, 2:24:20 PM (4 days ago) Mar 29
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(( Observation Bay, near Engineering Annex, Gibaria Outpost ))
Thanks to the aggressive, otherworldly life forms, the team had made a quick exit from the engineering annex (where they’d initially been stationed) and made their way to the observation bay. Upon entering the huge, transparent, aluminium paneled room they had immediately noticed a heavily modified shuttle that seemed to shift in and out of their plane of reality. Needing more information to even begin explaining this to her crewmates, Maezel had looked at a nearby monitoring station. The readouts were confusing, the mathematics intense and the science well outside of her Xenobiology expertise.
Fenn: I can tell you whatever this is supposed to be is reading as stable though I’m not sure how much I trust that assessment at this stage.
Marshall: Given everything else on this station that's been both stable and contained, that's a healthy dose of skepticism.
Kovar: Response.
Maezel noticed Commander Marshall moving to another one of the consoles surrounding the shuttle. As she tapped away at the controls, the look on her face told Maezel that they had another crisis to deal with. No doubt caused by the bad science that had created the current situation, she was sure it was going to be another mistake that the crew of the Gorkon were now risking their lives to correct.
Marshall: The dimensional field around the shuttle is degrading. Has been since the stabilization systems went offline. My guess is when the dimensional breach opened, it knocked out the automated systems. We've got maybe four hours before the field collapses entirely. ::Her eyebrow nearly escaped to her hairline.:: That's not ideal.
Thanks to the aggressive, otherworldly life forms, the team had made a quick exit from the engineering annex (where they’d initially been stationed) and made their way to the observation bay. Upon entering the huge, transparent, aluminium paneled room they had immediately noticed a heavily modified shuttle that seemed to shift in and out of their plane of reality. Needing more information to even begin explaining this to her crewmates, Maezel had looked at a nearby monitoring station. The readouts were confusing, the mathematics intense and the science well outside of her Xenobiology expertise.
Fenn: I can tell you whatever this is supposed to be is reading as stable though I’m not sure how much I trust that assessment at this stage.
Marshall: Given everything else on this station that's been both stable and contained, that's a healthy dose of skepticism.
Kovar: Response.
Maezel noticed Commander Marshall moving to another one of the consoles surrounding the shuttle. As she tapped away at the controls, the look on her face told Maezel that they had another crisis to deal with. No doubt caused by the bad science that had created the current situation, she was sure it was going to be another mistake that the crew of the Gorkon were now risking their lives to correct.
Marshall: The dimensional field around the shuttle is degrading. Has been since the stabilization systems went offline. My guess is when the dimensional breach opened, it knocked out the automated systems. We've got maybe four hours before the field collapses entirely. ::Her eyebrow nearly escaped to her hairline.:: That's not ideal.
Fenn: Then that’s how long we have to become experts... ::gesturing casually to the shuttle:: ...in whatever this is.
Kovar: Response
Kovar: Response
Marshall: Best case scenario, the shuttle phases completely into the other dimension and we lose it. Worst case— ::She glanced at the shuttle existing in four different states of reality.:: —the field collapse triggers a localised dimensional cascade
that spreads outward from this bay.
Perhaps it was simple instinct but something told Maezel that the latter was the most likely outcome. She wasn’t normally a pessimistic person. She’d always had the ability to see the light in the darkest of situations but this mission was testing that particular skillset. Still, the seemingly impossible challenges of life had never been solved by resigning herself to an unsatisfactory outcome and this mission was simply the latest impossible challenge. With a renewed determination, she moved to another console and tried to find something that would help her understand how this shuttle worked.
Fenn: Either way, not great outcomes. Either we lose our ability to potentially traverse the gate safely, or we die.
Kovar: Response
Perhaps it was simple instinct but something told Maezel that the latter was the most likely outcome. She wasn’t normally a pessimistic person. She’d always had the ability to see the light in the darkest of situations but this mission was testing that particular skillset. Still, the seemingly impossible challenges of life had never been solved by resigning herself to an unsatisfactory outcome and this mission was simply the latest impossible challenge. With a renewed determination, she moved to another console and tried to find something that would help her understand how this shuttle worked.
Fenn: Either way, not great outcomes. Either we lose our ability to potentially traverse the gate safely, or we die.
Kovar: Response
Marshall: Right, new priorities. Fenn, I need you to work out how to access and restart the auto-stabilisation sequence. Your call, make it fast. Kovar, shuttle access. We need the onboard computer active and communicating with the external systems but
the pocket is blocking the connection, so we need to get on there. While it's phasing between dimensions. Also not ideal.
Maezel stole a quick side glance at Commander Marshall following the command to “make it fast.” One did not simply learn an entirely new branch of science in such a short space of time. She took a breath and reminded herself of the Commander’s original orders back in the engineering annex – it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to work. She hoped that was still sufficient.
Maezel stole a quick side glance at Commander Marshall following the command to “make it fast.” One did not simply learn an entirely new branch of science in such a short space of time. She took a breath and reminded herself of the Commander’s original orders back in the engineering annex – it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to work. She hoped that was still sufficient.
Fenn: Aye, Commander.
Kovar: Response
As the team settled into their tasks, Maezel searched her console for any reference to an auto-stabilisation process. She realised that while she was not going to sufficiently get to grips with the advanced level of physics required to understand the experiment in the time they had, the logical first step to buying them all a bit more time was to make sure the experiment didn’t blow up in their faces. She hoped the engineers who set this up had created an automated process. The last thing she needed was to have to create one and risk damaging the shuttle or blowing them all to pieces.
Fenn: ::letting out a breath in relief:: Found it Commander! There’s an automated stabilisation subroutine we can run.
Kovar / Marshall: Response
Maezel activated the subroutine from her console. Frustratingly, she was met with a red X that flashed across her screen with each press of the activation command. She ran a diagnostic to see what the issue was. The computer quickly came back with an in-depth analysis of the underlying error codes. Maezel read through it trying to find a way of conveying the relevant information to her colleagues.
Fenn: Ok so because the shuttle is maintaining a presence in multiple dimensions, the power draw needed for any stabilisation attempt is going to be immense. Long story short, the computer won’t allow the subroutine to run until we find another 53.47 terawatts of power for it to run successfully.
Kovar / Marshall: Response
Fenn: We might want to check in with the power plant repair team. Ideally, we'll need them to get whatever fuels this thing running properly again first unless we’ve got... ::pausing to do the maths:: ...nine Galaxy class starships we can plug in to the outpost.
Kovar / Marshall: Response
Kovar: Response
As the team settled into their tasks, Maezel searched her console for any reference to an auto-stabilisation process. She realised that while she was not going to sufficiently get to grips with the advanced level of physics required to understand the experiment in the time they had, the logical first step to buying them all a bit more time was to make sure the experiment didn’t blow up in their faces. She hoped the engineers who set this up had created an automated process. The last thing she needed was to have to create one and risk damaging the shuttle or blowing them all to pieces.
Fenn: ::letting out a breath in relief:: Found it Commander! There’s an automated stabilisation subroutine we can run.
Kovar / Marshall: Response
Maezel activated the subroutine from her console. Frustratingly, she was met with a red X that flashed across her screen with each press of the activation command. She ran a diagnostic to see what the issue was. The computer quickly came back with an in-depth analysis of the underlying error codes. Maezel read through it trying to find a way of conveying the relevant information to her colleagues.
Fenn: Ok so because the shuttle is maintaining a presence in multiple dimensions, the power draw needed for any stabilisation attempt is going to be immense. Long story short, the computer won’t allow the subroutine to run until we find another 53.47 terawatts of power for it to run successfully.
Kovar / Marshall: Response
Fenn: We might want to check in with the power plant repair team. Ideally, we'll need them to get whatever fuels this thing running properly again first unless we’ve got... ::pausing to do the maths:: ...nine Galaxy class starships we can plug in to the outpost.
Kovar / Marshall: Response
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