Saturday, March 14, 2009

[USS Chimera] SD240903.14 - Duty Log - MCapt COps Jade Reese - "A New Side Project"

kevin coupe <fallenang3l4@gmail.com> wrote to chimera@ucip.org:

=/\= ODCC, USS Chimera C =/\=

Reading through diagnostics Jade came across many PADDs that had
reports of diagnostics that the ship ran 24/7, but that was all it did
run the diagnostics and then a operations officer would need to look
over the results and make the adjustments themselves. Looking at the
diagnostic on the PADD Jade wondered how long this would take someone
to make the adjustments, so instead of having someone do it she
decided that she would do it. It was a diagnostic from EVS mainly the
heating and cooling system mainly trying to keep a nice equal
temperature through out the ship making sure it wasn't to hot or to
cold every once and while it became out of alignment just from
individuals altering it themselves.

The first thing she had to do was compare these diagnostics to the
last patch and see how far off they were to the norm and then enter
the numbers into an algorithm and then make the adjustments and then
run that to the newest diagnostic and if it didn't match up you would
start the process all over again. So Jade did this process three or
four times until it finally got into normal range and all of that took
her close to an hour and half, so she then counted through all the
diagnostics that had to be done like that and came to the conclusion
that it would take both alpha and beta shifts two days to finish all
of these. Figuring that there must be a better way of doing this Jade
opened up some data base files looking for anything that anyone as
done to solve this problem.

She knew of one way making a dedicated team to deal with these, but
that would mean pulling them from other tasks that need to be done.
Not saying that working on fixing the issues that the diagnostics
comes up with isn't important, but it's usually the last thing that
people do at the end of their shifts. While she was going through the
data base she came across the EMH program that was used for if there
was an over surge of wounded personnel and they needed some extra
hands. She pulled up the file on how they created the EMH trying to
figure out how they would program a hologram to perform minor repairs
on living creatures. "Computer pull up any other related topics about
hologram programs performing minor duties in different departments."
Jade told the computer.

It took a few moments, but it pulled up one more article a EEH
(emergency engineering hologram) it ran on the same principle of the
EMH, but it was used in engineering instead of sickbay, "computer pull
up all algorithms used in the operations department including the ones
that the ship uses?" Jade asked seeing how many algorithms operations
uses. Within seconds a list of algorithms popped up on the screen
there was close to 1500+ algorithms that operations uses daily
including the ones the ship does all on her own. A second thought
occurred instead of having a person work on all the adjustments to
certain diagnostics why not have a hologram that can run the
algorithms it self and then all the person has to do is double check
the work.

Jade decided that this might be worth bringing to the attention of the
CO or XO to get approval to start figuring out how to create a
hologram to deal with making minor adjustments to the EVS, sensors and
other minor applications. Looking up at the chronometer Jade realized
that it was almost 1 AM and that she needed to get some sleep before
she had to come back to work.

Marine Captain Jade Reese
Chief Operations Officer
USS Chimera C