Repairs and more....repairs

Posted on Sat Jan 12th, 2013 @ 2:04pm by Warrant Officer Breton Plantarge & Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Johnston Jr
Edited on on Sat Jan 12th, 2013 @ 2:04pm

Mission: Episode 1.1 - "MystiQue"
Location: Deck 18, Auxiliary shield generators
Timeline: Mission Day 3, 1200 hours

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[[Deck 18, Auxiliary shield generators, USS Yorktown, Mission Day 03, 1200 Hours]]

Warrant Officer Breton Plantarge (NPC) and Petty Officer 1st class Andy Johnston, Jr (NPC) had been assigned to check on the auxiliary shield generators by Lieutenant Salar. The Vulcan had sent them to check out the possibility of an overload in the computer systems and a computer report of a hairline fracture in the shield generator unit. The pair didn't seem to happy about it after leaving main engineering, but then, this was a strange assignment anyway.

Crawling on his back, Andy was scanning the undercarriage of the aft section of the primary auxiliary generator. The space was barely large enough for Andy to get under the unit, but he managed. The whirl of noise coming from his tricorder in this enclosed space was starting to get on his nerves. "You know, that Vulcan, I don't know about him."

Breton was interfacing his tricorder with the generator controls, checking the linear readouts and computer feedback. There was a strange loop feeding energy back and forth to the unit and Breton didn't know where it originated. It didn't look like anything he'd ever seen within a computer system. "What do you mean about Salar?"

"Well, you know how these Vulcans are always 'I do not feel' and crap right? I think he had some hunch or gut feeling that there was something down here and just sent us on a wild goose chase."

Breton smiled, "Well Andy, you know I actually feel a lot better about a Vulcan's hunch than some experts opinions. Besides, what were you doing before we were sent down here?"

"Ah......ah...." started Andy.

"Exactly my point. You were trying to score points with Barton again weren't you." Breton shook his head.

"Well so what if I was; I mean love is what it is you know. There' no escaping it."

"Andy, I think you need to keep your head into hydrospanners and diagnostics. Barton will eat you up and spit you out. You don't know about her last relationship, and I don't want to have to be the one to break it to you...."

"What ever do you mean Breton? I'm not going to marry her, I just want to...." The tricorder changed its signal, having found the hairline fracture underneath the unit.

Breton heard the change in Andy's tricorder. "What did you find? Was the ole' Vulcan right?"

"Oh, huh? Yeah it seems he was. There seems to be a hairline fracture on the undercarriage of the unit. I'm not sure how it got there, looks more like a stress fracture. I don't understand it because what's down here to cause that much stress to this type of metal?"

"Well, I had something unusual on the computer system too, but it looks like it's straightened out now. I'll make a note of it and suggest a level two diagnostic."

"Ok, I'll start repairing this...I should have it fixed in no time." said Andy.

"So, you never finished your sentence...."

"My sentence about what?" asked Andy.

"Your sentence about you and Barton and what you wanted to....that's where you stopped." replied Breton.

"Oh....ah...yeah. Well it's too difficult to explain to your delicate ears." Andy smiled.

"Yeah, my ears are as delicate as yours."

OFF

WO Breton Plantarge (NPC)
Computer Systems Specialist

PO1 Andy Johnston, Jr. (NPC)
Damage Control Specialist

Both played by:
LCDR Robert Hogan, Chief Engineer
USS Yorktown