Joshua Niles
Security & Tactical
[TI22]
Posts: 649 Likes: 21
Rank: Lieutenant
Position: Tactical Officer
Species: Human
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Post by Joshua Niles on Mar 20, 2021 2:30:43 GMT
[ LT Joshua Niles - Bridge, USS Mac ]With the probe away, Niles turned his attention to his board. Much of the same readings he would be seeing would be piped to the main screen, along with a plot of the probe's path and its own internal telemetry. At first, he expected it to be swallowed up, but instead, it settled neatly into its station, and some readings started coming through. Some, apparently, there were good enough to refine the area in which the runabout had gone down, but it was still much too big for comfort. But there was something else. The interference pattern and readings in the upper atmosphere, they were actually somewhat consistent, and before long, he could see their waveforms and how they behaved, just what they were doing. And he found himself smiling. He knew he had something. "Master Chief, I got something," he reported from his position, and he tapped a few controls to input his figures into hte computer so a quick simulation could be run, and he brought the readings to the viewscreen, and a more detailed readout to her PADD. "I'll be damned if I can tell you what's going on in the upper atmosphere, but I'm fairly certain that if we use the deflector dish to generate a sufficiently powerful broadband subspace transmission running through a linear recursive sequence, I can overpower the local noise to the point that, if we filter out our passive sensor input, I could get readings from the surface. And if the frequency is tuned just right, I might be able to even punch a comms signal through. Now I don't know how long the deflector can keep that up, maybe a few minutes at most so we might not be able to get a real conversation going, and without them knowing what we're doing from up here they won't be able to talk back to us just yet, and unless the transmitter on the runabout is still working, they won't be be able to talk to us since their commbadges won't have enough power on their own. Though I might be able to send a file with instructions in a burst transmission to their computer... if it's still operational."But, there remained another problem to be solved, that of maintaining that kind of opening in the interference. The deflector could take unspeakable amounts of strain, and while it could do what he had described, it couldn't do it forever. Now, what else could generate... Idea! And just then, his fingers danced on his board and he sent the specifications of the waveform he planned to generate to the Engineering crewman and the Master Chief. "This is a theory right now and an engineering problem. The deflector isn't designed for that kind of use long-term, but a warp drive is designed to stay on for a while. Could a shuttle's warp coils be modified to emit the waveforms and patterns I sent you? If the probe lasts, like Mister Black said, we could get a shuttle in there... but instead we could use it to punch a hole in the interference... and with that hole we could communicate with our people, and maybe even beam them back."
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Isaiah Quinn
Science
[TI36]
Posts: 1,153 Likes: 57
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Position: Chief Science Officer
Species: Human
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Post by Isaiah Quinn on Mar 20, 2021 17:59:22 GMT
{Quoted Posts} [USS Mac - Bridge] Derek couldn't help the involuntary grimace which crossed his face. "Sorry to say, I find your plethora of faith disturbing." He commented drily, reverting to a level of familiarity one usually reserved for the Chief's Mess. Nevertheless, he turned back to his multifunctional console, reconfiguring the desktop to a flight control setting, and the display to a standard IFR layout. After confirming Niles had indeed linked the probe's command functions to his station, Derek took a deep breath, slowly releasing it, before acknowledging the lieutenant. "I have control. Launching in three, two, one, mark." Piloting a probe was far different than flying a starship, or even a shuttlecraft. For one, the tiny mass relative to a fairly powerful propulsion system meant velocity was much greater, and more violent, than those normally experienced, since G-forces were a non-issue for unmanned probes. Maneuvers which could turn biological occupants into jello were fairly ordinary. Manual control was normally limited to inputting pre-programmed flight patterns, or setting waypoints for the probe's computer, which was able to make alterations far more precisely than humanoid pilots, to follow. Furthermore, the Class-3 probes themselves were designed to move in space, not to maintain altitude in an atmosphere. The RCS thrusters alone wouldn't be able to counteract the force of gravity, which only left the main engine. Pivoted towards the ground, it'd be a delicate balance, fighting both the conditions like wind and friction, as well as the physics of what goes up must come down. Derek reckoned an excellent or good pilot would be able to keep control for several minutes, maybe even a quarter of an hour before they ran out of fuel for the probe's thruster pack. As for himself, he figured he'd last, at most, five minutes. To save on fuel and ensure they at least got to the planet without too much drama, Derek guided the probe to the planet's outermost edge via waypoints, shutting off it's main engine and pitching it 180 degrees so it was now, figuratively, 'flying' backwards. "Beginning re-entry burn now." He reported, slowing the probe enough so it's trajectory would take it down into the atmosphere, instead of just bouncing off it and back into space. "Burn complete, entering the outer atmosphere and descending." The computer had provided a virtual anchor 'dot' for him to keep his reticle on, requiring Derek's full concentration and meticulous adjustments with thrusters to ensure the probe stayed aligned properly. Occasionally, his eyes flickered towards the steadily decreasing altitude reading, and reciprocally diminishing fuel gauge. "Take your readings, gentlemen, let's not do this all day.", he advised tersely. [Lt. JG Cerjess Miren - USS Mac - Bridge]When the Chief shot him a stern look, Cerjess ducked his head, sufficiently chastised for his outburst. As the others reported the status of the probe, he turned back to his own console. "Receiving telemetry," he reported as well. "Calibrating ship sensors to follow." If this probe suddenly vanished like the last one had, the ship sensors would be far more likely to tell them what happened to it than the telemetry readings. Though he was hopeful the manual controls would rectify that particular problem. [ MCPO Ozu Saya - USS Mac - Bridge] Saya waited tensely, her eyes moving constantly across the viewscreen, trying to absorb the data - numbers, chemical names, telemetry. The probe visibly slowed, almost lost against the verdant background of the planet's surface. The large zone that had initially been marked out for where the runabout had gone down shrank; it was still a large area. She glanced down at the info that had been sent to her PADD and spoke quietly to Ensign Black, not wanting to distract him too much, ' Try to hold the probe steady just before you reach 80 km from the surface, just above the level of the mesosphere. That's where the last one burned up. Hold it there as long as you can.' Saya offered a silent prayer to the Prophets, not something she did often, that they'd be able to find and rescue the team safely. [ LT Joshua Niles - Bridge, USS Mac ]With the probe away, Niles turned his attention to his board. Much of the same readings he would be seeing would be piped to the main screen, along with a plot of the probe's path and its own internal telemetry. At first, he expected it to be swallowed up, but instead, it settled neatly into its station, and some readings started coming through. Some, apparently, there were good enough to refine the area in which the runabout had gone down, but it was still much too big for comfort. But there was something else. The interference pattern and readings in the upper atmosphere, they were actually somewhat consistent, and before long, he could see their waveforms and how they behaved, just what they were doing. And he found himself smiling. He knew he had something. "Master Chief, I got something," he reported from his position, and he tapped a few controls to input his figures into hte computer so a quick simulation could be run, and he brought the readings to the viewscreen, and a more detailed readout to her PADD. "I'll be damned if I can tell you what's going on in the upper atmosphere, but I'm fairly certain that if we use the deflector dish to generate a sufficiently powerful broadband subspace transmission running through a linear recursive sequence, I can overpower the local noise to the point that, if we filter out our passive sensor input, I could get readings from the surface. And if the frequency is tuned just right, I might be able to even punch a comms signal through. Now I don't know how long the deflector can keep that up, maybe a few minutes at most so we might not be able to get a real conversation going, and without them knowing what we're doing from up here they won't be able to talk back to us just yet, and unless the transmitter on the runabout is still working, they won't be be able to talk to us since their commbadges won't have enough power on their own. Though I might be able to send a file with instructions in a burst transmission to their computer... if it's still operational."But, there remained another problem to be solved, that of maintaining that kind of opening in the interference. The deflector could take unspeakable amounts of strain, and while it could do what he had described, it couldn't do it forever. Now, what else could generate... Idea! And just then, his fingers danced on his board and he sent the specifications of the waveform he planned to generate to the Engineering crewman and the Master Chief. "This is a theory right now and an engineering problem. The deflector isn't designed for that kind of use long-term, but a warp drive is designed to stay on for a while. Could a shuttle's warp coils be modified to emit the waveforms and patterns I sent you? If the probe lasts, like Mister Black said, we could get a shuttle in there... but instead we could use it to punch a hole in the interference... and with that hole we could communicate with our people, and maybe even beam them back." [NPC - Crewman Ezra Mora - Bridge, USS Mac ] As the probe was dropped, Ezra continued to collect his own set of data. His immediate concerns were the stress that the atmosphere was putting on the probe itself. That could likely give further indication on what would happen to any craft that went into the atmosphere, as well as one trying to come out of it. What he was seeing didn't fill him with confidence. "The structural integrity of the probe has decreased by 12%... 17%...." he called out. Ezra was making certain to track exactly what was happening as the probe continued its descension. He then heard Niles suggest using the main deflector to breach some of the interference in the atmosphere. He immediately began to run a simulation from the data that had been collected at that point. It was a sound idea, but the lieutenant's assessment was correct. It wasn't something that could be sustained for an extensive period of time. "You're right, lieutenant. We try to breach the interference with the main deflector dish alone, and we'll be lucky if we only blow half the relays," Ezra said. He paused as he seemed to entertain the notion of using warp drive to accomplish a similar feet. "A shuttlecraft can't manipulate the size of its warp field like the Mac could," Ezra began to explain. "It'd be the difference of you blowing into a sail versus a gust of wind doing the same. You move the Mac into a low orbit, we can probably extend the ship's warp field to breach the interference."His voice wasn't filled with much enthusiasm as he gave his explanation, primarily because there was a lingering 'but' that he'd yet to mention. "But... transporters are typically inoperative while the warp drive is active. Overriding for manual transport would widen the margin of error for successful transport by... roughly 20%, and that's being conservative."
Tag: Ozu Saya , Derek Black , Syl O'Connell (Cerjess), Joshua Niles
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Derek Black
Medical
[TI33]
Posts: 48 Likes: 3
Rank: Ensign
Position: Health & Safety Officer
Species: Human
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Post by Derek Black on Mar 22, 2021 2:35:59 GMT
[NPC - Crewman Ezra Mora - Bridge, USS Mac ] As the probe was dropped, Ezra continued to collect his own set of data. His immediate concerns were the stress that the atmosphere was putting on the probe itself. That could likely give further indication on what would happen to any craft that went into the atmosphere, as well as one trying to come out of it. What he was seeing didn't fill him with confidence. "The structural integrity of the probe has decreased by 12%... 17%...." he called out. Ezra was making certain to track exactly what was happening as the probe continued its descension. He then heard Niles suggest using the main deflector to breach some of the interference in the atmosphere. He immediately began to run a simulation from the data that had been collected at that point. It was a sound idea, but the lieutenant's assessment was correct. It wasn't something that could be sustained for an extensive period of time. "You're right, lieutenant. We try to breach the interference with the main deflector dish alone, and we'll be lucky if we only blow half the relays," Ezra said. He paused as he seemed to entertain the notion of using warp drive to accomplish a similar feet. "A shuttlecraft can't manipulate the size of its warp field like the Mac could," Ezra began to explain. "It'd be the difference of you blowing into a sail versus a gust of wind doing the same. You move the Mac into a low orbit, we can probably extend the ship's warp field to breach the interference."His voice wasn't filled with much enthusiasm as he gave his explanation, primarily because there was a lingering 'but' that he'd yet to mention. "But... transporters are typically inoperative while the warp drive is active. Overriding for manual transport would widen the margin of error for successful transport by... roughly 20%, and that's being conservative."
Tag: Ozu Saya , Derek Black , Syl O'Connell (Cerjess), Joshua Niles [USS Mac - Bridge] Keeping an ear open to any relevant information from the other bridge officers, Derek could feel a trickle of sweat slowly rolling down the back of his neck, a steady descent increasingly difficult as the probe began buffeting in wind currents, his mouth twisted into a steady grimace with concentration. "Holding at 80 kilometres.", He reported tensely, increasing the main engine output to a level that would drop the downward velocity to zero, or as near to it as he could get. "Three minutes, twenty-two seconds left." Derek added, his eyes flickering towards the fuel remaining. Though still keeping a careful eye on the probe's position and making minute adjustments with the thrusters every few seconds, he could finally relax enough to contribute an idea to the conversation behind him. "Could we use the transporter systems on shuttlecraft placed in a higher orbit above Mac? Would that solve the active warp drive issue and increase the odds of success, in addition with getting the survivors to set up pattern enhancers?"
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Syl O'Connell
Flight Control
[TI8]
Posts: 662 Likes: 9
Rank: Lieutenant Junior Grade
Position: Flight Control/Caldonia 5
Species: Human
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Post by Syl O'Connell on Mar 23, 2021 11:01:47 GMT
[Lt. JG Cerjess Miren - USS Mac - Bridge]The young Lieutenant kept his eyes on his console, flitting back and forth between the ship sensors and the probe's telemetry. He tried to pay attention to what was being discussed around him, but he zeroed in on the readings in front of him, especially when they suddenly spiked well beyond 'normal'. And even more so when the telemetry ceased just as suddenly immediately after. "Probe's gone," he announced, likely needlessly, fingers flying across the panel as he swiftly analyzed the spike in the readout. "Looks like it was disintegrated by... hold on..." That couldn't be right. There had been absolutely no signs of that before. But sensors rarely lied. "There was a sudden raise in temperature, solar radiation and ionic activity precisely at the probe's location. Then everything went back to normal as soon as the probe was destroyed." There was nothing 'normal' about this atmosphere, he was beginning to realize. But at least they had something to go off of now.
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Ozu Saya
Engineering/Ops
[TI19]
Posts: 878 Likes: 29
Rank: Master Chief Petty Officer
Position: CoB/Chief Engineer
Species: Vulcan-Bajoran
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Post by Ozu Saya on Mar 24, 2021 14:29:40 GMT
[ LT Joshua Niles - Bridge, USS Mac ]With the probe away, Niles turned his attention to his board. Much of the same readings he would be seeing would be piped to the main screen, along with a plot of the probe's path and its own internal telemetry. At first, he expected it to be swallowed up, but instead, it settled neatly into its station, and some readings started coming through. Some, apparently, there were good enough to refine the area in which the runabout had gone down, but it was still much too big for comfort. But there was something else. The interference pattern and readings in the upper atmosphere, they were actually somewhat consistent, and before long, he could see their waveforms and how they behaved, just what they were doing. And he found himself smiling. He knew he had something. "Master Chief, I got something," he reported from his position, and he tapped a few controls to input his figures into hte computer so a quick simulation could be run, and he brought the readings to the viewscreen, and a more detailed readout to her PADD. "I'll be damned if I can tell you what's going on in the upper atmosphere, but I'm fairly certain that if we use the deflector dish to generate a sufficiently powerful broadband subspace transmission running through a linear recursive sequence, I can overpower the local noise to the point that, if we filter out our passive sensor input, I could get readings from the surface. And if the frequency is tuned just right, I might be able to even punch a comms signal through. Now I don't know how long the deflector can keep that up, maybe a few minutes at most so we might not be able to get a real conversation going, and without them knowing what we're doing from up here they won't be able to talk back to us just yet, and unless the transmitter on the runabout is still working, they won't be be able to talk to us since their commbadges won't have enough power on their own. Though I might be able to send a file with instructions in a burst transmission to their computer... if it's still operational."But, there remained another problem to be solved, that of maintaining that kind of opening in the interference. The deflector could take unspeakable amounts of strain, and while it could do what he had described, it couldn't do it forever. Now, what else could generate... Idea! And just then, his fingers danced on his board and he sent the specifications of the waveform he planned to generate to the Engineering crewman and the Master Chief. "This is a theory right now and an engineering problem. The deflector isn't designed for that kind of use long-term, but a warp drive is designed to stay on for a while. Could a shuttle's warp coils be modified to emit the waveforms and patterns I sent you? If the probe lasts, like Mister Black said, we could get a shuttle in there... but instead we could use it to punch a hole in the interference... and with that hole we could communicate with our people, and maybe even beam them back."
tag Ozu Saya Syl O'Connell Derek Black Isaiah Quinn [NPC - Crewman Ezra Mora - Bridge, USS Mac ] As the probe was dropped, Ezra continued to collect his own set of data. His immediate concerns were the stress that the atmosphere was putting on the probe itself. That could likely give further indication on what would happen to any craft that went into the atmosphere, as well as one trying to come out of it. What he was seeing didn't fill him with confidence. "The structural integrity of the probe has decreased by 12%... 17%...." he called out. Ezra was making certain to track exactly what was happening as the probe continued its descension. He then heard Niles suggest using the main deflector to breach some of the interference in the atmosphere. He immediately began to run a simulation from the data that had been collected at that point. It was a sound idea, but the lieutenant's assessment was correct. It wasn't something that could be sustained for an extensive period of time. "You're right, lieutenant. We try to breach the interference with the main deflector dish alone, and we'll be lucky if we only blow half the relays," Ezra said. He paused as he seemed to entertain the notion of using warp drive to accomplish a similar feet. "A shuttlecraft can't manipulate the size of its warp field like the Mac could," Ezra began to explain. "It'd be the difference of you blowing into a sail versus a gust of wind doing the same. You move the Mac into a low orbit, we can probably extend the ship's warp field to breach the interference."His voice wasn't filled with much enthusiasm as he gave his explanation, primarily because there was a lingering 'but' that he'd yet to mention. "But... transporters are typically inoperative while the warp drive is active. Overriding for manual transport would widen the margin of error for successful transport by... roughly 20%, and that's being conservative."
Tag: Ozu Saya , Derek Black , Syl O'Connell (Cerjess), Joshua Niles [USS Mac - Bridge] Keeping an ear open to any relevant information from the other bridge officers, Derek could feel a trickle of sweat slowly rolling down the back of his neck, a steady descent increasingly difficult as the probe began buffeting in wind currents, his mouth twisted into a steady grimace with concentration. "Holding at 80 kilometres.", He reported tensely, increasing the main engine output to a level that would drop the downward velocity to zero, or as near to it as he could get. "Three minutes, twenty-two seconds left." Derek added, his eyes flickering towards the fuel remaining. Though still keeping a careful eye on the probe's position and making minute adjustments with the thrusters every few seconds, he could finally relax enough to contribute an idea to the conversation behind him. "Could we use the transporter systems on shuttlecraft placed in a higher orbit above Mac? Would that solve the active warp drive issue and increase the odds of success, in addition with getting the survivors to set up pattern enhancers?"
Tag Ozu Saya Isaiah Quinn Joshua Niles Syl O'Connell[Lt. JG Cerjess Miren - USS Mac - Bridge]The young Lieutenant kept his eyes on his console, flitting back and forth between the ship sensors and the probe's telemetry. He tried to pay attention to what was being discussed around him, but he zeroed in on the readings in front of him, especially when they suddenly spiked well beyond 'normal'. And even more so when the telemetry ceased just as suddenly immediately after. "Probe's gone," he announced, likely needlessly, fingers flying across the panel as he swiftly analyzed the spike in the readout. "Looks like it was disintegrated by... hold on..." That couldn't be right. There had been absolutely no signs of that before. But sensors rarely lied. "There was a sudden raise in temperature, solar radiation and ionic activity precisely at the probe's location. Then everything went back to normal as soon as the probe was destroyed." There was nothing 'normal' about this atmosphere, he was beginning to realize. But at least they had something to go off of now.
Tag Ozu Saya Joshua Niles Isaiah Quinn (Ezra) Derek Black [ MCPO Ozu Saya - USS Mac - Bridge] Lt. Niles presented an intriguing idea, and before Saya could express her own concerns about using the deflector dish in such a fashion, the engineering crewman spoke similar thoughts aloud. And the tactical officer's own thought process seemed to catch up as well. She was impressed with how well this group seemed to be working in synergy for the most part. Saya made a mental note to add a brief note of commendation to each of their files. As the discussion continued, Saya looked over the data Niles sent her and began some calculations on her PADD. While they ran, she glanced around at the group that was doing their best, some stepping outside the comforts and constraints of their usual roles, to rescue their colleagues. ' Very well,' she said. ' First priority is rescuing the away team, but we should attempt to retrieve the Roundabout as well, if possible. We will begin making these modifications to the Mac with a multi-fold objective. The first will be to break through the interference with the ship and attempt to contact the team. If we are able to sustain our position and hull integrity for several minutes, and we can determine whether the crashed runabout is sufficiently intact, we will send a data pack with instructions to make the same modifications to the runabout. As it would be coming through the interference rather than simply making a hole in it, the smaller warp bubble should protect them.
'If we are not able to maintain our position in the atmosphere for long, then the goal will be to transport the away team aboard as quickly as possible, using the Bilby's transporters in close orbit above the Mac.' ---------- Tag Joshua Niles, Isaiah Quinn, Derek Black and Syl O'Connell
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Isaiah Quinn
Science
[TI36]
Posts: 1,153 Likes: 57
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Position: Chief Science Officer
Species: Human
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Post by Isaiah Quinn on Mar 27, 2021 16:18:55 GMT
{Quoted Posts} [USS Mac - Bridge] Keeping an ear open to any relevant information from the other bridge officers, Derek could feel a trickle of sweat slowly rolling down the back of his neck, a steady descent increasingly difficult as the probe began buffeting in wind currents, his mouth twisted into a steady grimace with concentration. "Holding at 80 kilometres.", He reported tensely, increasing the main engine output to a level that would drop the downward velocity to zero, or as near to it as he could get. "Three minutes, twenty-two seconds left." Derek added, his eyes flickering towards the fuel remaining. Though still keeping a careful eye on the probe's position and making minute adjustments with the thrusters every few seconds, he could finally relax enough to contribute an idea to the conversation behind him. "Could we use the transporter systems on shuttlecraft placed in a higher orbit above Mac? Would that solve the active warp drive issue and increase the odds of success, in addition with getting the survivors to set up pattern enhancers?"[Lt. JG Cerjess Miren - USS Mac - Bridge]The young Lieutenant kept his eyes on his console, flitting back and forth between the ship sensors and the probe's telemetry. He tried to pay attention to what was being discussed around him, but he zeroed in on the readings in front of him, especially when they suddenly spiked well beyond 'normal'. And even more so when the telemetry ceased just as suddenly immediately after. "Probe's gone," he announced, likely needlessly, fingers flying across the panel as he swiftly analyzed the spike in the readout. "Looks like it was disintegrated by... hold on..." That couldn't be right. There had been absolutely no signs of that before. But sensors rarely lied. "There was a sudden raise in temperature, solar radiation and ionic activity precisely at the probe's location. Then everything went back to normal as soon as the probe was destroyed." There was nothing 'normal' about this atmosphere, he was beginning to realize. But at least they had something to go off of now. [MCPO Ozu Saya - USS Mac - Bridge] Lt. Niles presented an intriguing idea, and before Saya could express her own concerns about using the deflector dish in such a fashion, the engineering crewman spoke similar thoughts aloud. And the tactical officer's own thought process seemed to catch up as well. She was impressed with how well this group seemed to be working in synergy for the most part. Saya made a mental note to add a brief note of commendation to each of their files. As the discussion continued, Saya looked over the data Niles sent her and began some calculations on her PADD. While they ran, she glanced around at the group that was doing their best, some stepping outside the comforts and constraints of their usual roles, to rescue their colleagues. ' Very well,' she said. ' First priority is rescuing the away team, but we should attempt to retrieve the Roundabout as well, if possible. We will begin making these modifications to the Mac with a multi-fold objective. The first will be to break through the interference with the ship and attempt to contact the team. If we are able to sustain our position and hull integrity for several minutes, and we can determine whether the crashed runabout is sufficiently intact, we will send a data pack with instructions to make the same modifications to the runabout. As it would be coming through the interference rather than simply making a hole in it, the smaller warp bubble should protect them.
'If we are not able to maintain our position in the atmosphere for long, then the goal will be to transport the away team aboard as quickly as possible, using the Bilby's transporters in close orbit above the Mac.' [NPC - Crewman Ezra Mora - Bridge, USS Mac ] As another probe bit the dust, it seemed that they at least had bearings on what course of action to take next. Ezra continued to process the Trill science officer's contributions before the probe was destroyed. It definitely gave some key information as to what to look for, and possibly counter. Ozu wasted no time capitalizing on the moment and making it clear what their next course of action would be. Summed up, Ezra could see that she planning for the best and prepping for the shit to hit the fan. It seemed as if they were going for the sustained warp bubble, and trying to communicate if not pull the away team off the planet. The only question was whether the bubble would hold long enough before the ship, or the Bilby got into trouble. "I'll coordinate with Engineering, but we should be ready inside of an hour, Boss," he said as he turned his attention back towards the station. He certainly didn't have the luxury of lying about how long this would take, given that the Boss was an engineer herself and not your typical Red. Not that it was common practice to exaggerate the length of time, but it never hurt to have a nice cushion. "The boys downstairs are going to love this," he mumbled mostly to himself as he began to coordinate remotely with is fellow officers down in Engineering.
Tag: Joshua Niles, Derek Black, Syl O'Connell (Cerjess), Ozu Saya
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Ozu Saya
Engineering/Ops
[TI19]
Posts: 878 Likes: 29
Rank: Master Chief Petty Officer
Position: CoB/Chief Engineer
Species: Vulcan-Bajoran
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Post by Ozu Saya on Mar 30, 2021 15:28:46 GMT
[MCPO Ozu Saya - USS Mac - Bridge]
One Hour Later
The time had passed quickly as engineering worked to make the necessary modifications to the Mac's warp engines. Saya, again, had wished to be in the thick of things, but such were the restraints of command. Sometimes you couldn't be where you wanted to be. Instead she rechecked calculations and decided who would be where during their maneuvers.
Now they were getting into position. The runabout Bilby had launched with Crewman Mora to handle the transporter and Lt. Miren to monitor the away team and make the call to transport if the efforts to bring up the runabout were unsuccessful. They would maintain position above the ship for as long as the Mac could keep the warp bubble intact. Thankfully, the calculations seemed to be holding true as the Mac's warp field parted the layer of atmosphere that seemed to have all of the interference.
On the Mac's bridge, Ensign Black was piloting the ship, holding her in place directly above the location of the runabout; Lt. Niles would be in charge of communications and coordination; Saya was at the engineering station to monitor the Mac's warp core.
Finally, she called for an open comm channel and said, 'Mac to Roundabout, I'm not certain if you can hear us or reply, but we're sending through a data pack with details to make modifications to the runabout's warp core to allow you to make it through the atmospheric interference. We will be monitoring your progress and are prepared to beam you out if the runabout it too damaged to lift off. Please respond if you are able.'
Saya nodded to Niles for him to try sending the data.
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