Shiny New Structure
Posted on Thu Jan 8th, 2015 @ 12:45am by Ensign Bennen Khai & Master Warrant Officer Vestara Stronghold & Lieutenant William O'Donnell & Ensign Corrine Steiner
Mission:
Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Thieves
Location: Damaged Decks
Timeline: Between posts
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Master Warrant Officer Vestara Stronghold made her way into the environmental suit locker that had been placed just before the shimmering force fields holding the atmosphere in. She was doing a check on how the repairs to the main structure of the damaged decks was progressing. Donning a suit, with a thruster pack, and collecting her PADDs she flew out to meet the floating hub of workbees, one of which had offices and assorted work areas opened to space for use by the repair teams.
Of course the workers had either suits or personal shields, Vestara came to the foreman's office and engaged her grav boots planting her on the office decking. Her suits intercom already keyed for the repair team frequencies. "Report, sir?" She said, since probably majority were ranked above her but being Boatswain gave her a level of authority that not many non-commissioned officers were granted over normal officers.
"Ah finally, what took you so long?" The man replied turning and Vestara sighed as she recognized her annoying colleague Ensign Bennen Khai. He smiled at her with a smug grin. "Oh things are progressing nicely, provided we get a steady flow of certain unreplicatable parts." Bennen looked at her expectantly.
"Yes yes," she groaned in frustration. "I have a few crates waiting in the sled bay over there." Vestara narrowed her eyes at him. "Anything else?"
"Dinner?" He asked casually.
Vestara wasn't sure when this whole flirtation fixation from him at her started and it had been going on for many days since they met during one of his training sessions. She hated it, and him, he wasn't bad looking or anything but something about his personality just rubbed her the wrong way. "No." She said and turned before deactivating her boots, powered her thrusters and headed down to a cluster of wielding torches.
She saw that the structural skeleton of the exterior was coming along but a little slower then Bennen made it out to be. Vestara cursed him, though with the strain and drain on the starbase personnel things had to be paced as they were unless they could get help from the Corps of Engineers. She found that unlikely but could hope.
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"Alright I want to get these supports in place so we can place the emitters and get the forcefields up so we can get some atmosphere in this section. Lieutenant O'Donnell wants the worker bees out there placing tritanium panels before the beginning of beta shift. I've heard we have another three hundred tons arriving soon so we need the room. Once the exterior is completed we need to begin routing the EPS conduits. We will then look into getting some replicators down here so ops isn't required to send supply crates. Questions?"
"What kind of drugs is the Lieutenant on? Because we are along way from placing the paneling." One of the engineers said.
"Not the best way of speaking of your superior. Especially with one with a temper like his. He doesn't expect this done today he wants work on this section to begin before beta shift. What I just outlined was weeks of work...well months to most but weeks to us." The lead engineer replied.
The man nodded and looked to the others quietly.
"Alright if there's nothing else, you're all dismissed." she said returning to her PADD.
"Ma'am." Called out a warrant officer approaching the engineer. "I wanted to speak to you about the defensive systems in this location. I think I've got a way to strengthen the power grid."
"Thank christ. O'Donnell literally chirps me off EVERYTIME the shield strength drops down even half a percentile let alone a complete drop. And now we need to get some forcefields going I don't know where he is planning to draw all the resources from." The lead answered.
"I don't know but I'm hoping my solution here will help." The warrant stated.
"Let's have a look." The engineer said holding her hand out.
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Vestara made her way through the areas of the re-construction, and came across a warrant officer and an engineer talking. "What going on?" She asked the engineer.
"Progressing on the exterior structure in this section. The Chief wants this section done by tomorrow so we can begin to populate it with artificial air." The engineer replied.
"Tomorrow?" She asked rhetorically, Wow, okay. She thought glancing around a little. "What would it take to get the structure done? I'll quickly check our resources and see what I can do." Vestara said pulling out a PADD ready to enter a list.
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As the engineering teams took after the hands-on work, the newly commissioned Corrine Steiner applied herself to console work. She looked at the different refugee and commercial spaceships now docking at Starbase 332, "This is crazy! We could complete repairs in far less time! Computer, compile a list of all space vehicles near or at this facility."
==LIST COMPILED==
"For each ship, compile a list of all standard damage control resources."
==LIST COMPILED==
Corrie shook her head in mild amazement, "Ohh, man!" She then broke out into a smile, "Talk about your fifth column! All that repair potential, just sitting there unused! Computer, prepare an Operations memo to starbase command staff. Recommend committing combined independent ship repair resources towards station repairs."
==ERROR, SPECIFIED SHIPS ARE NOT UNDER STARFLEET AUTHORITY.==
"There is no error, Computer. That is what the gentle art of persuasion is all about. That's what command is paid to do. Pass the recommendation to the command distribution list."
==MEMO SENT.==
Corrie sat back and rocked gently in her chair. She was aware that improvisation can be the mother of chaos. However, this fan of ice hockey remembered an ancient Gretzky quotation, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
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Lt. Augustus Deakin
Lt. William O'Donnell
MWO Vestara Stronghold
Ens. Bennen Khai
Ens. Corrine Steiner
Starbase 332
Pegasus Fleet
