=/\= Chimera – C – Main Engineering =/\=
It had been 6 days since Gustav arrived on the new Chimera to help
with the finishings, 6 long days with maybe 5 hours of sleep between
sifts, he needed everything to be perfect on the ship before he handed
over the proverbial keys to the Captain.
The transporters were sorted within the first two days, something
about faulty relays as well badly aligned targeting sensors, he let
the engineers work on that by themselves with minimum input from
himself, all he did with them was sign off on the requisition forms
and watch the testing making sure everything worked.
The Tractor beam was another matter altogether, when Commander
Ohmsford said that it didn't work he wasn't telling the whole truth,
the damned thing was still in it packing crates and needed to be
fitted from scratch, yet again Gustav let the engineers do most the
work themselves while he worked on the warp drive, it was slow going
at first but once the transporter teams had finished he reassigned
them to getting the tractor beam operational, that was successfully
tested just few hours ago with Gustav signing off on that.
Gustav's main concern though was the warp drive in the first 3 days of
working on it Guilder, Vah'toth and himself had only managed to bring
the top speed up to warp 7.6, still well below what was needed,
Commander Guilder had managed to get the warp field more than stable
for maximum warp by the problems seemed to lay with the drive itself.
By the 5th day Gustav was wiped and ready to through a hydrospanner at
the core when Vah'toth and Guilder approached him with readouts form
simulations and tests on the antimatter injectors as well as the
stability of the dilithium matrix, it turned out that there was an
inherent flaw in the injectors and the matrix was becoming unstable at
high warp.
The injectors were easy to fix but Vah'toth had other plans, she had
plans for some experimental injector assemblies with her that would
work well with the Chimera's drive system, Gustav gave the green light
to manufacture them and he helped install the new injectors.
While Gustav and lieutenant Vah'toth were working on the anti matter
injectors Guilder was busy removing the offending algorithms in the
program that monitored and compensated for power fluctuations within
the core, like Vah'toth Julian had been working on some experimental
warp software and she incorporated some of what she had been working
on into the new monitoring program, she also reinstalled uncorrupted
versions of the old algorithms just in case the new ones didn't work.
After all the work had been completed with a steaming mug of coffee
that was strong enough to use as paint stripper all three started a
new warp simulation inputting the data from the new software and
hardware that was installed.
Looking at the simulation readout on the warp drive Gustav was finally
satisfied that ship would be able to go at the speed that the ship
should go but the Chimera would also be able to reach that speed using
15% less power than it should this was done by Vah'toth incorporating
the new injector assembly deigns meant for the next generation of
starships, as well as the new algorithms that monitored the stability
of the dilithium matrix within the core.
Happy with the results Gustav contacted Bren over the comms.
=/\= End Log =/\=
Act. Lieutenant JG Gustav Kroitzer
Deputy Chief Engineering Officer
USS Chimera NCC 96899-C
&
Cmdr Julian Guilder
Warp Field Specialist
SB Bragg
(NPC) by Gutz
&
Lt Vah'toth
Warp Core Specialist
SB Bragg
(NPC) by Gutz
