PNPC Lieutenant JG Rachel Morgan - Shrinkage
Martin Tucker
Dohna: =/\= Captain, there's another problem. One of our probes is detecting an object entering the system. =/\=
Rachel hoped the message had been received. For her part, she returned to the console on the Pool Table and began assessing the damage and assigning repair crews. For the most part, the feedback loop overloaded the EPS grid, causing ship-wide issues.
Zh'taan: I’m running diagnostics.
Dohna: Good work Ensign. ::pausing:: We'll need to reroute power to the catamaran. Some of the relays have been fused.
Systems ship-wide were affected, but they still had power; the warp core was fine, which could have been a problem if they had taken the full brunt of the feedback. Most likely, they would have ejected it already, but luckily, they avoided that catastrophe.
Morgan: ::turning to the Andorian:: Mister Zh’taan, how’s our structural integrity?
Zh'taan: The hull doesn’t appear to be damaged, but the shock pushed the ship a few kilometers closer to the black hole.
oO That’s not good… Oo
Dohna: Do we have impulse power? We need to move.
Rachels hands danced over the LCARS bring up damage reports and repair reports as well, as some problems didn’t take long to fix, the severely damage EPS grid didn’t help matters and would take a it longer to repair, and they didn’t have time to spare, there was a ship entering the system or an object, though she was betting an vessel, because why not?
As far as impulse was concerned, well, that was another story.
Morgan: Impulse engines offline, the hit to the EPS grid took it out, first thing. It’s going to take an hour or so to fix it, and with us closer to the temporal black hole, we needed it online asap.
Zh'taan: With the power transfer offline, the ship should have more available power, right? We might be able to buy some time by trying to move away from the black hole using reverse engine thrust. Instead of turning around, what if we try backing away?
Dohna: Good thinking, Ensign. We can move off faster once impulse power is back online.
This would normally be the place where she’d take off with a couple of techs and head to the impulse manifold, and repair it, or at least patch it until they were out of hot water. But she had to send another team; she was the acting Chief Engineer with Commander Tucker somewhere on the surface of that moon, facing heaven knows what.
Instead, she had to delegate. oO Ugh Oo
Morgan: Quick thinking, ensign! All we have are RCS thrusters, but that should be enough to push us back from getting into the black hole's gravity well, though I’m not sure if temporal black holes operate in the same way as your typical black hole.
Dohna: Is the deflector still operational?
Rachel dropped her head, closing her eyes. She then popped one open to peek at the deflector's status report. The pit in her stomach grew deeper; she wanted Marty to have a place to return to instead of “Sorry I burnt the house down”.
The pit closed; the deflector, for its part, was working within parameters. So they had that going for them.
Morgan: ::lifting her head up::Yes, the deflector is still operational. ::she smiled as she puffed a strand of unruly red hair got in her face::
Zh’taan: Response
Dohna: So our escape plan is intact, how long before that window closes for good.
Rachel looked at Dohna and then to Zh’tann, she’d been busy coordinating fire teams and repair teams. She hadn’t been paying attention to their escape window.
oO On crisis at a time, puh-lease Oo
Morgan: ::turning to Zh’taan:: How much time do we have, exactly, Mr. Zh’taan?
Zh'taan: Response
Given what was going on on the surface, that wasn’t a whole hell of a lot of time, getting everyone back. That not only included the away teams, but the fighters they had active. And while everyone was trained on how to do all of that as quickly as possible, but there were still a lot of variables.
Dohna: ::sighing:: That's not much time. Any way we can extend our window?
Morgan: ::shrugging:: You got me, I’m just the engineer. I can build things, take things apart, and put them back together again. Quantum mechanics and black holes? So not my area of expertise. But I do catch on damn quick. ::she turned to Zh’taan:: You’re the scientist, what say you? oO I knew I should have paid more attention in quantum mechanics Oo
She wasn’t trying to put any undue pressure on the Ensign, but time was of the essancy and if they didn’t do something soon, they were all going to be stuck here.
Zh'taan/Dohna: Response
Rachel started doing some calculations at the Pool Table, then transferred them to one of the larger wall monitors. That way, everyone could see what she was doing. What she was going to do was try to figure out a way to extend their window, or try to shrink the black hole. She was pretty sure that Marty’s rule number ten would work here, reversing the flow of what? She kept working in the LCARS. There had to be a way to extend their escape window. They might cut it close, but they needed something
Zh'taan/Dohna: Response
Morgan: There has to be a way. With the deflector still working, what if we used it to flood the hole with neutrinos? I’m thinking of using them to dilate the wormhole. Maybe if we shrink it, we could buy our away team and birds time to get back. Do we have any better ideas?
Zh'taan/Dohna: Response
