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***Main Engineering, Deck 16, USS Chimera-C***
Anya walked into Main Engineering looking for either of the top two guys in the department. It irked her that she didn't have enough resources nor admittedly enough technical know-how to get what she needed put in place. She asked one of the technicians where to find either of the two men she was looking for and he pointed in the direction of a blond haired man with his head half under a console.
Gustav was busy fixing a console that fused when he was working on it, he was going over some readings from a diagnostic on the impulse manifolds he was running when bang the screen went out, the other engineer's were busy so he decided to put the diagnostic on hold and fix the console. Gustav was just about finished when he heard someone stop at his feet, he moved from under the console and saw a marine captain in front of him "Is there anything I can help you with ma'am?" he asked.
Anya replied coldly "Don't call me Ma'am. I work for a living if you have to call me anything Captain will do. I came to see you Leftenant to see if you could help me put some rail launchers in both of the Flight Decks"
"Aye Captain" Gustav said "what do have in mind capability wise I mean?" he asked.
"Enough launchers to deploy a Flight simultaneusly from each bay so 8 in total and we also need them to be able to recharge within 15 seconds and provide a 10 to 20% boost on unaided deployment." Anya looked at him to see if the harsh demands would phase him.
Thinking over what was needed Gustav decided it was plenty doable but he needed some specs so he asked Anya to follow him to a console with a large view screen, he pulled up the specs on the two hanger bays and input the requirements that he was given into the computer. Standing back from the screen he asked "is this alright", the screen showed 4 EM launchers in each bay set into the floor each one slightly offset so as to not interfere with each other during launch.
"The launchers need to be 2 to 3 metres shorter otherwise there is the chance of them launching parked fighters as well. Otherwise an additional boost in those launchers power would be helpful too." Anya said without taking her eyes off the screen.
"Sure thing" Gustav said while tapping in the modified specs. "Hmm" Gustav said concerned "with the extra power needed to get the fighters up to speed with the shorter launchers we don't have enough power" he added while thinking of a solution.
"GOT IT" Gustav enthusiastically said "we could install an supplementary generator that would supply the extra power needed" thinking a bit more he added "and we could set it up so that even if main power failed you could still run at least 1 launcher in each bay off it".
"Maybe" Anya replied "Or another alternative is if we could find a way to tap the power from the warp cores in the fighters themselves. The power used for self propelled launch would come from the fighters impulse engines so the warp engine power mostly goes to waste."
"That would probably work as well but I would have to see the power output figures of the cores installed on the fighters... unfortunately I'm not cleared for that at the moment" Gustav said impressed at the suggestion.
Anya did a rough calculation in her head. "Well there's only about fifteen people in the Federation with that info and I'm one of them but I don't have the clearance to tell you exact figures either. I'd advise you to work off the figure of around 120% of a Type-12 Shuttle's output." In actuality that figure was quite a way shy of any of the new fighter's outputs but it would cover the extra requirement of the EM Launchers easily.
Gustav input the latest figures into the console even though he knew that the figures were probably short as no one tells anyone absolute specifics unless they have to. "Well this the latest the computer's come up with" Gustav said letting the marine captain look over what was on screen "now this is all ruff stuff at the moment it will still take a couple of days to finalise the plans if they meet your requirements that is" he added.
Anya nodded and said "It's good enough from what I can see when the finalised plans come through send me a copy and I can have my people go over them. Speaking of I'd better get back to kicking them into shape. Thank you for your help Leftenant, when we get back I'll buy you a drink."
"Aye captain will do, oh and I'll hold you to that drink" Gustav said as he smiled at Anya.
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Marine Captain Anya Xerxes
Flight Ops CO
USS Chimera - C
Lieutenant JG Gustav Kroitzer
Deputy Chief Engineer
USS Chimera - C
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