Ensign Roop - Treasure Maps
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(( Late Beta Shift, TCS bays, Shuttle Repair & Fabrication Workshop, Deck 11, USS Ronin ))
Roop: Until tomorrow morning, crewmen. See you then.
Roop shut off the holoprojectors and ensured everything was offline, on standby, or ready for the project. He picked up his large LCARS padd and, connecting the strap, slung it over his head and one shoulder for travel like a medkit.
Nakada: See you, Roop.
(( Alpha Shift, TCS bays, Shuttle Repair & Fabrication Workshop, Deck 11, USS Ronin ))
Nakada: =/\= Nakada to Roop =/\=
Roop: =/\= Roop here. Good morning, Mister Nakada.
Nakada: =/\= How’re the shaft checks going? =/\=
Roop: =/\= We’re about to finish up the first section and move over to the port saucer section. No EPS issues discovered at all. So far, we’re checking off boxes on overdue verification of the emergency bulkheads and forcefield emitter maintenance.
Nakada: =/\= Have you taken a look at lift 3L yet?=/\=
Roop: =/\= Three-L? No, we won’t get there for another hour and forty minutes. Why? =/\=
Nakada: :: brief pause :: =/\= Well, something’s up with it. It’s running slower than all the others, and also seems to never stop at engineering decks. =/\=
Roop: =/\= I rode on Three-L from Shuttle Bay One to the Bridge when I first arrived. It had the highest variance of the four lifts I inquired about with Chief Tucker.
Nakada: =/\= Well, could be a faulty isolinear circuit … :: hesitates :: could also be malware. =/\=
Roop: =/\= We’ll leap-frog over L One and Two to take it first, no problem.
Nakada: =/\= I think 3L is one of the lifts servicing the bridge. =/\=
Roop: =/\= Precisely. Both Threes become the Primary lifts when the ship goes into Reduced Power Mode. One is routed to the Bridge, while the other is routed to the Security Complex. Takes a Command Override from Senior Staff or release from Ops to initiate any other lift.
Nakada: Response
Roop: =/\= Reduced Power Mode is a very specific flight mode. It certainly should not bypass Engineering, even then. Does 3L still stop at the Auxiliary Bridge?
Nakada: Response
Roop: =/\= That’s on the Port section. Let’s find out, then, before we shut down the port side lifts. We’ll route 3L there, you track it from the Datacore side.
(…pause…)
Nakada: Response
Roop: =/\= I wonder…Let our project move over to the port side, and we’ll tackle Three-L first. Assuming it doesn’t think we’re engineering. We’ll contact you in about…25 minutes, Mister Nakada.
Nakada: Response
His fingers momentarily knotting into a ball and then twiddling like a magician, Roop ran his tongue around inside his cheek. His eyes glazed over in deeper thought.
Blake: Back the vestibule up a bit, mate. The left flange is catching.
Dahl eased back with the antigrav’s bottom handle as a lever, grunting, even though the device was doing all the heavy lifting.
Roop: ::refocusing on the turbolift refit:: Is that the last piece?
Blake: Aye, Sir. She’ll be right after.
Looking around, the maintenance bay was in mid-morning hum. Various crew and then a Valkyrie appeared, passed, and disappeared again by the roof’s opening up to Shuttle Bay One. Roop watched a crewman walk diagonally over the safety forcefield with blue-white footsteps. Ott felt like a fish watching a water-strider on the surface.
Turbolift 4R squatted like an egg on the floor stand, cracked open to reveal the interior that was far more familiar to everyone but Toolies. Roop watched Blake reach up and adjust a floating belt-light before reaching in with a laser welder. Dahl turned his head from the glare but kept the motor steady as a rock.
Dahl: What was the chatter from Ensign Nakada, Sir?
Using his hand as a blinder for his right eye, Roop turned to answer Dahl without going blind.
Roop: When we shift to the port section, we’re going straight for the third turbolift. Mister Nakada’s sifting of the Core found something fishy going on with it.
Dahl: Bloke’s right, this will do it. Hey, Cátedra? How’d the scans go on the old parts?
The dark-haired Petty Officer with a goatee stuck his head out of the turbolift interior.
PO3rd Bergallo: Superb, again.
C2nd Reynolds: All the gear’s showing the expected wear and tear, but if we’re looking for answers to peculiarities, we’re certainly not seeing answers yet.
The weld-lighting from the motor mounting ended the strobe effects on everyone.
Roop: ::putting his blinder hand down:: Maybe Section Two will reveal something. Excellent work, people. Thank you. We’re on track.
A round of ‘thank you, sirs’ followed as Roop picked up his display padd.
The heavy display PADD Roop used was far bigger than typical padds. At 28 x 43 cm, it was more akin to a “legal-sized” clipboard. The right side featured a built-in, heavy-duty engineering tricorder with a removable scanner, and the unit housed a small optical subprocessor that could operate remotely or be hard-wired to the ODN. The top had slots for five iso-chips. Three stuck out slightly now as flat glowing nubs. The first was Ronin’s protocols and procedures, and the second was Damage Control protocols. They rarely changed in these first days. The last two were currently empty.
The third isochip today was for Ronin’s TCS system, and if it had been a thermal chip, it would have been glowing brightly enough to match the welder.
Roop: =/\= Ensign Roop to Gondola Team. How close are you on the Deck Fourteen hard points?
Zakdorn Sujat: =/\= We’ve finished the diagnostics on the deflector bulkhead. Ardiansyah’s just taking a whiz before we’re ready to move to port. =/\=
Looking from his padd to the 3-D turbolift model, Roop could see that the gondola and probe were well out of the way of routing 3L to the garage door.
Roop: =/\= Well done. Proceed across the connector to port side when ready. =/\= Ensign Roop to Ops.
Ops: =/\= Go ahead, Roop. =/\=
Roop: =/\= Go ahead and red-tag the port turbolift section. When the gondola-probe crosses over, we can return the starboard turbolift section to full operation.
Ops: =/\= Roger that. =/\=
As the tractor emitter wound itself up, Roop looked at the four crewmen taking a quick breather.
Roop: Let’s get Four, here, back in service, and start routing Three-L here next. We’ll take a coffee break after having a look at Three.
After unhooking the power clamp from the lift’s tap, Turbolift 4R rose up off the floor stand just like one of its brother shuttles, and the garage door opened, receiving by tractor the last refitted turbolft for the starboard section. The motors hummed to life as it contacted the EPS lines and slowly vanished away in the shaft. Bergallo and Reynolds got to work readying the next set of parts.
Turbolift 3L made its final appearance coming in the shaft to the garage door. It looked like just another turbolift at first. The same beehive design.
The IDS waveguides were mounted differently on its sides, however. It was duranium composite just like all the rest, but a distinctly darker shade. One that did not go unnoticed by technicians as the tractor lifted it into the maintenance bay air and set it upon the floor stand.
Dahl: Bet you this one’s got a surprise.
(( Later ))
Wrestling a motor back in place, Dahl and Blake were underneath the open doors of the 3L lift. Roop was coordinating with the gondola crew when Reynolds stuck her head out of the lift opening.
C2nd Reynolds: Cátedra? Look at this. ::holding out the manual translation LCARS panel that controlled the turbolift::
Bergallo: ::sliding the replacement to his armpit to accept the old panel:: ¿Qué es eso?
C2nd Reynolds: Turn it over. Look at the isolinear circuits.
The PO 3rd class they were lovingly calling ‘the Professor’ spun the quadrant-shaped panel in his thick-fingered hands, revealing the isolinear circuits on the reverse side. Professor Bergallo whistled a long, dropping note as he scratched his neck.
Bergallo: Ensign?
Stopping his tricorder scanning of a removed motor, Roop took the offered LCARS panel from him.
Roop: What’s this odd chip?
C2nd Reynolds: That’s the question.
Bergallo: It looks late modeled. A couple of decades late.
Blake: ::standing up to see it closer:: That’s not one of our standard replacements.
Easing the chip out, Roop held it in his hand to study.
Dahl: May I, Sir?
Roop handed the chip to Dahl and then ran his fingers over the back of the panel circuits with the other isolinear chips.
Bergallo: That’s not a 2397 variant part. That chip’s been running live on this turbolift panel for a long time now.
Dahl: I’ve been on the Ronin since Starbase thirty-three and seen every system on the Ronin. We’ve never purposefully used an isolinear chip as old as this, Sir. ::offering it back to Roop::
Scanning the isochip first, Roop then inserted it into his PADD top. Inspecting the chip’s details, Roop tried to whistle just like Bergallo had whistled. He came eerily close.
Roop: This is from the USS-Constitution-B.
Dahl: What? ::his face contorting his words into a finishing chuckle of disbelief::
Stepping up closer to the lift, Bergallo ran his hands over the oddly colored duranium composite skin.
Roop: =/\= Ensign Roop to Nakada.
Nakada: Response
Roop: =/\= Mister Nakada, you’ve sent us on a treasure hunt with your malfunctioning isolinear chip. We got a rare find here on turbolift Three-L. According to refit records, this turbolift is requisitioned surplus from a USS Constitution-B refit in the early 2390s.
Nakada: Response
Roop: To top your treasure map off, records show this entire Three-L turbolift was once the backup emergency turbolift between the Constitution’s Bridge and its Battle Bridge.
Nakada: Response
Dahl: ::interjecting to add:: We got it from Thirty-Three in the last refit.
Roop: Yes. ::nodding:: And it was still online to the ODN with three other isolinear chips. This chip seems to only understand two destinations. Do you believe this one chip of four on the panel would cause sufficient confusion for the turbolift to answer this lift’s erratic behavior?
Nakada: Response
C2nd Reynolds: ::looking back over her shoulder into the lift:: We should put up a little plaque up in here to honor the ‘Undefeated.”
Blake: That’s from the ‘Undefeated?’ Oi! I’ve heard of that ghost ship! The Flying Dutchman’s own!
Roop: ::looking up to Reynolds:: What a good idea. We’ll ask Lieutenant Tucker and the XO if we can. =/\= We’ll hold this chip in my PADD for you to peek into and see what it is all about. I'm routed through the Maintenance Bay.
Nakada: Response
Roop: Let’s get back to fitting the correct modules in this precious lift.
[TAG/TBC]
===============================
Ensign Roop
HCO Officer assigned to Engineering & Lieutenant Tucker
USS Ronin NCC-34523
Captain Karrod Niac commanding
R240206OR1
Roop: Until tomorrow morning, crewmen. See you then.
Roop shut off the holoprojectors and ensured everything was offline, on standby, or ready for the project. He picked up his large LCARS padd and, connecting the strap, slung it over his head and one shoulder for travel like a medkit.
Nakada: See you, Roop.
(( Alpha Shift, TCS bays, Shuttle Repair & Fabrication Workshop, Deck 11, USS Ronin ))
Nakada: =/\= Nakada to Roop =/\=
Roop: =/\= Roop here. Good morning, Mister Nakada.
Nakada: =/\= How’re the shaft checks going? =/\=
Roop: =/\= We’re about to finish up the first section and move over to the port saucer section. No EPS issues discovered at all. So far, we’re checking off boxes on overdue verification of the emergency bulkheads and forcefield emitter maintenance.
Nakada: =/\= Have you taken a look at lift 3L yet?=/\=
Roop: =/\= Three-L? No, we won’t get there for another hour and forty minutes. Why? =/\=
Nakada: :: brief pause :: =/\= Well, something’s up with it. It’s running slower than all the others, and also seems to never stop at engineering decks. =/\=
Roop: =/\= I rode on Three-L from Shuttle Bay One to the Bridge when I first arrived. It had the highest variance of the four lifts I inquired about with Chief Tucker.
Nakada: =/\= Well, could be a faulty isolinear circuit … :: hesitates :: could also be malware. =/\=
Roop: =/\= We’ll leap-frog over L One and Two to take it first, no problem.
Nakada: =/\= I think 3L is one of the lifts servicing the bridge. =/\=
Roop: =/\= Precisely. Both Threes become the Primary lifts when the ship goes into Reduced Power Mode. One is routed to the Bridge, while the other is routed to the Security Complex. Takes a Command Override from Senior Staff or release from Ops to initiate any other lift.
Nakada: Response
Roop: =/\= Reduced Power Mode is a very specific flight mode. It certainly should not bypass Engineering, even then. Does 3L still stop at the Auxiliary Bridge?
Nakada: Response
Roop: =/\= That’s on the Port section. Let’s find out, then, before we shut down the port side lifts. We’ll route 3L there, you track it from the Datacore side.
(…pause…)
Nakada: Response
Roop: =/\= I wonder…Let our project move over to the port side, and we’ll tackle Three-L first. Assuming it doesn’t think we’re engineering. We’ll contact you in about…25 minutes, Mister Nakada.
Nakada: Response
His fingers momentarily knotting into a ball and then twiddling like a magician, Roop ran his tongue around inside his cheek. His eyes glazed over in deeper thought.
Blake: Back the vestibule up a bit, mate. The left flange is catching.
Dahl eased back with the antigrav’s bottom handle as a lever, grunting, even though the device was doing all the heavy lifting.
Roop: ::refocusing on the turbolift refit:: Is that the last piece?
Blake: Aye, Sir. She’ll be right after.
Looking around, the maintenance bay was in mid-morning hum. Various crew and then a Valkyrie appeared, passed, and disappeared again by the roof’s opening up to Shuttle Bay One. Roop watched a crewman walk diagonally over the safety forcefield with blue-white footsteps. Ott felt like a fish watching a water-strider on the surface.
Turbolift 4R squatted like an egg on the floor stand, cracked open to reveal the interior that was far more familiar to everyone but Toolies. Roop watched Blake reach up and adjust a floating belt-light before reaching in with a laser welder. Dahl turned his head from the glare but kept the motor steady as a rock.
Dahl: What was the chatter from Ensign Nakada, Sir?
Using his hand as a blinder for his right eye, Roop turned to answer Dahl without going blind.
Roop: When we shift to the port section, we’re going straight for the third turbolift. Mister Nakada’s sifting of the Core found something fishy going on with it.
Dahl: Bloke’s right, this will do it. Hey, Cátedra? How’d the scans go on the old parts?
The dark-haired Petty Officer with a goatee stuck his head out of the turbolift interior.
PO3rd Bergallo: Superb, again.
The man’s tonal drop on ‘again’ signaled the continuation of unremarkable test results on good equipment. He started down the scaffold stairs from the lift’s interior. A crewwoman with her hair in a box-braid bun and carrying a tricorder followed him out of the lift.
C2nd Reynolds: All the gear’s showing the expected wear and tear, but if we’re looking for answers to peculiarities, we’re certainly not seeing answers yet.
The weld-lighting from the motor mounting ended the strobe effects on everyone.
Roop: ::putting his blinder hand down:: Maybe Section Two will reveal something. Excellent work, people. Thank you. We’re on track.
A round of ‘thank you, sirs’ followed as Roop picked up his display padd.
The heavy display PADD Roop used was far bigger than typical padds. At 28 x 43 cm, it was more akin to a “legal-sized” clipboard. The right side featured a built-in, heavy-duty engineering tricorder with a removable scanner, and the unit housed a small optical subprocessor that could operate remotely or be hard-wired to the ODN. The top had slots for five iso-chips. Three stuck out slightly now as flat glowing nubs. The first was Ronin’s protocols and procedures, and the second was Damage Control protocols. They rarely changed in these first days. The last two were currently empty.
The third isochip today was for Ronin’s TCS system, and if it had been a thermal chip, it would have been glowing brightly enough to match the welder.
Roop: =/\= Ensign Roop to Gondola Team. How close are you on the Deck Fourteen hard points?
Zakdorn Sujat: =/\= We’ve finished the diagnostics on the deflector bulkhead. Ardiansyah’s just taking a whiz before we’re ready to move to port. =/\=
Looking from his padd to the 3-D turbolift model, Roop could see that the gondola and probe were well out of the way of routing 3L to the garage door.
Roop: =/\= Well done. Proceed across the connector to port side when ready. =/\= Ensign Roop to Ops.
Ops: =/\= Go ahead, Roop. =/\=
Roop: =/\= Go ahead and red-tag the port turbolift section. When the gondola-probe crosses over, we can return the starboard turbolift section to full operation.
Ops: =/\= Roger that. =/\=
As the tractor emitter wound itself up, Roop looked at the four crewmen taking a quick breather.
Roop: Let’s get Four, here, back in service, and start routing Three-L here next. We’ll take a coffee break after having a look at Three.
After unhooking the power clamp from the lift’s tap, Turbolift 4R rose up off the floor stand just like one of its brother shuttles, and the garage door opened, receiving by tractor the last refitted turbolft for the starboard section. The motors hummed to life as it contacted the EPS lines and slowly vanished away in the shaft. Bergallo and Reynolds got to work readying the next set of parts.
Turbolift 3L made its final appearance coming in the shaft to the garage door. It looked like just another turbolift at first. The same beehive design.
The IDS waveguides were mounted differently on its sides, however. It was duranium composite just like all the rest, but a distinctly darker shade. One that did not go unnoticed by technicians as the tractor lifted it into the maintenance bay air and set it upon the floor stand.
Dahl: Bet you this one’s got a surprise.
(( Later ))
Wrestling a motor back in place, Dahl and Blake were underneath the open doors of the 3L lift. Roop was coordinating with the gondola crew when Reynolds stuck her head out of the lift opening.
C2nd Reynolds: Cátedra? Look at this. ::holding out the manual translation LCARS panel that controlled the turbolift::
Bergallo: ::sliding the replacement to his armpit to accept the old panel:: ¿Qué es eso?
C2nd Reynolds: Turn it over. Look at the isolinear circuits.
The PO 3rd class they were lovingly calling ‘the Professor’ spun the quadrant-shaped panel in his thick-fingered hands, revealing the isolinear circuits on the reverse side. Professor Bergallo whistled a long, dropping note as he scratched his neck.
Bergallo: Ensign?
Stopping his tricorder scanning of a removed motor, Roop took the offered LCARS panel from him.
Roop: What’s this odd chip?
C2nd Reynolds: That’s the question.
Bergallo: It looks late modeled. A couple of decades late.
Blake: ::standing up to see it closer:: That’s not one of our standard replacements.
Easing the chip out, Roop held it in his hand to study.
Dahl: May I, Sir?
Roop handed the chip to Dahl and then ran his fingers over the back of the panel circuits with the other isolinear chips.
Bergallo: That’s not a 2397 variant part. That chip’s been running live on this turbolift panel for a long time now.
Dahl: I’ve been on the Ronin since Starbase thirty-three and seen every system on the Ronin. We’ve never purposefully used an isolinear chip as old as this, Sir. ::offering it back to Roop::
Scanning the isochip first, Roop then inserted it into his PADD top. Inspecting the chip’s details, Roop tried to whistle just like Bergallo had whistled. He came eerily close.
Roop: This is from the USS-Constitution-B.
Dahl: What? ::his face contorting his words into a finishing chuckle of disbelief::
Stepping up closer to the lift, Bergallo ran his hands over the oddly colored duranium composite skin.
Roop: =/\= Ensign Roop to Nakada.
Nakada: Response
Roop: =/\= Mister Nakada, you’ve sent us on a treasure hunt with your malfunctioning isolinear chip. We got a rare find here on turbolift Three-L. According to refit records, this turbolift is requisitioned surplus from a USS Constitution-B refit in the early 2390s.
Nakada: Response
Roop: To top your treasure map off, records show this entire Three-L turbolift was once the backup emergency turbolift between the Constitution’s Bridge and its Battle Bridge.
Nakada: Response
Dahl: ::interjecting to add:: We got it from Thirty-Three in the last refit.
Roop: Yes. ::nodding:: And it was still online to the ODN with three other isolinear chips. This chip seems to only understand two destinations. Do you believe this one chip of four on the panel would cause sufficient confusion for the turbolift to answer this lift’s erratic behavior?
Nakada: Response
C2nd Reynolds: ::looking back over her shoulder into the lift:: We should put up a little plaque up in here to honor the ‘Undefeated.”
Blake: That’s from the ‘Undefeated?’ Oi! I’ve heard of that ghost ship! The Flying Dutchman’s own!
Roop: ::looking up to Reynolds:: What a good idea. We’ll ask Lieutenant Tucker and the XO if we can. =/\= We’ll hold this chip in my PADD for you to peek into and see what it is all about. I'm routed through the Maintenance Bay.
Nakada: Response
Roop: Let’s get back to fitting the correct modules in this precious lift.
[TAG/TBC]
===============================
Ensign Roop
HCO Officer assigned to Engineering & Lieutenant Tucker
USS Ronin NCC-34523
Captain Karrod Niac commanding
R240206OR1
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