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Post by Hector J. Romilly on May 3, 2011 18:25:07 GMT -5
"Don't know if it's worth naming it, it's only going to crash in ten minutes," Hector pointed out mildly, though it was said in better humour than most of his cutting barbs tended to be. He set it down and took a few experimental paces backwards, then paused, and took a few more and looked around, for good measure. No one. Hughes was manning the sensors and so was probably better protected than anybody if there was a miniature warp core breach right there in Hector's face. Good. He fiddled with the control a bit, and then yelled: "I hope you're scanning!" before he lifted it from the ground. Balancing it was no easy feat; it wasn't the same as flying one at full size, the effect of the air was more pronounced. After a moment's fidgeting, he found a smooth flight pattern and turned her skywards. TAG: Hughes (Marty, feel free to just write up whatever you think for the sensor log )
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Post by Commander Christian Hughes on May 6, 2011 13:13:32 GMT -5
Christian laughed pleasantly when Hector told him the minishuttle was going to crash. Just sad, though: it was a marvellous piece of work, even though Christian hurried too fast to the sensor array to say it.
"I hope you're scanning!" he heard Hector yelling. "Don't worry!" he yelled back, good-naturedly. He looked at the panel. All sensor data was normal for the planet's atmosphere, but as the shuttle went higher and higher, readings were showing up. "There's some particles up there," he noted. "Scanning them now. Engines seem to be hampering." Just before the sensors in the minishuttle stopped linking data down to his console, Christian finished the analysis.
Noting it on a PADD, he ran out of the shuttle to find Hector. "Just in time," he said with a grin. "Seconds later and we'd have to do it all over again. Wouldn't want that, would we?" He handed Hector the PADD. "Here," he said, pointing the data out. "Heightened levels of Hypersonic particles. Seems like the engines got choaked."
Tag: Hector (Sorry it took that long. And if it's inaccurate in physics, I'm sorry people, I'm not an expert on Star Trek physics.)
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Post by Hector J. Romilly on May 8, 2011 8:11:36 GMT -5
"Hypersonic particles," Hector repeated, flicking the little controller on his make-shift shuttle steering system thoughtfully. "So it's not that we need a filter, it's that the filter can't sift particles so small. It's clogging internally, beyond the point where we can vaporise them." An interesting conundrum. Hector pursed his lips and exhaled through his nose, brown eyes troubled as he thought it over carefully. "I'll start working on something," he said at last. Sometimes he did find that just fiddling with technology helped him think. "In the meantime I would recommend trying to alert the Orion that we're here, somehow." His meaning was plain: I don't know how long this might take.Tag: Hughes and don't worry, we're on Possum/Marty physics now
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Post by Commander Christian Hughes on May 9, 2011 16:34:51 GMT -5
Hector, apparently, had an idea, although he didn't sound too sure. But a bad idea was better than no idea, and even if it wasn't going to work it might give hope. "Do your best as usual, Hector," he said, expressing his confidence sincerely, "and we'll be out of here momentarily." He wondered what was going on on the Orion now. What would they do if they were gone?
He put his mind off things by thinking. "Do you have any ideas on contacting the Orion?" he said to Hector, because he couldn't come up with something himself. He contemplated too many possibilities.
Tag: Hector
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Post by Hector J. Romilly on May 12, 2011 13:34:59 GMT -5
"Message in a bottle?" Hector suggested wryly, although he wasn't wholly being facetious. There seemed to be no real way to contact them at all. "It's against protocol, and you're going to say no, but since they can't reach us by comm -- we could blow something up. Something large and facing the ship."
He shrugged.
"They might pick up on something of that magnitude."
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Post by Commander Christian Hughes on May 13, 2011 17:50:50 GMT -5
"It's against protocol, and you're going to say no, but since they can't reach us by comm -- we could blow something up. Something large and facing the ship."
Very unusual. "And what should we blow up, eh, Hector?" asked Christian, good-naturedly poking fun at the Chief Engineer. "Another miniature shuttle? A small rock? We haven't exactly got many explosives here, have we?" He made a 'come on' type of gesture. "No, seriously, anything is worth a try. Share some of your genius with us, please. Think outside the box as you usually do." That he meant as a compliment.
Christian felt Hector was close to becoming a friend of his now. The hard circumstances had made him appreciate Hector's unconventionality. He just hoped the Chief Engineer had also learned to respect him.
Tag: Hector
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Post by Hector J. Romilly on May 14, 2011 7:14:03 GMT -5
Hector was beginning to think Commander Hughes had gone mad, in fact, but it was a welcomed change -- he didn't flip so easily from his defensive posturing, but he was at least registering surprise that his suggestions weren't being dismissed outright.
"We've got torpedos," Hector mused. "Maybe an explosion is the last hurrah. We could fire morse code into the sky with photon torpedoes set to explode in time, and finish it by blowing the tip off of one of those mountains up there. This planet is uninhabited, after all."
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Post by Commander Christian Hughes on May 15, 2011 15:19:02 GMT -5
That was one barking mad plan, and Christian immediately felt like protesting. Asserting himself, he did so. "Using torpedoes sounds good, but blowing the top of a mountain off?" he said, indicating his doubts about the plan. "That's... barking mad." He wondered what Hector would say. "Can't we reprogram the torpedo to emit a different wavelength of light? They could notice the last blast."
Tag: Hector
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Post by Crewman Janet Chan on May 17, 2011 1:38:30 GMT -5
Janet led the way through the beautiful countryside of this strange planet, she was telling the Captain how she enjoyed listening to music and trying to sing to it while she practiced her dancing, she also told a story about the first time she had incorporated her martial arts into a dance and had won an award for it at a competition when she was in her early teens. Her parents insisted on her having more than one after school activity to occupy her time, and she had chosen dance and martial arts, because they would complement each other and keep her in great shape. As the crossed a hill she couldn't help herself from singing, even if it was pitchy and slightly off key.
"The hills are alive with the sound of music..." She sang, humming the rest as she did a ballet spin before walking the rest of the way across the crest of the hill. On the way down the back of it she altered her course to begin her circular pattern back to the shuttle...
Tag: La'Mara ooc: Sorry for the delay, work got in the way.
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Captain La'Mara Tiho
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Post by Captain La'Mara Tiho on May 17, 2011 14:14:41 GMT -5
Ironically, when Chan sang a breeze came by tickling the leaves and small shrubs. The leaves made a tinkling chime sound when the wind tickled them. Wasn't there a line in that song about my heart wanting to chime like a...oh something or other... La'Mara knew the song, it had just been a while since she heard it. Thankfully Janet had not started to sing 'Do-Re-Mi'. That was one additive song! Real easy to play on the piano!
"I suppose they are." La'Mara lightly commented with a smile. Hmm. "Too bad we don't have the time to stay and study this planets environment. I'd love to go trapezing off, smell the flowers and such." They were on such a beautiful world. At least if they had to come down it was on a planet they could enjoy, and not one that was a barren waste land with constant shaking due to plasma storms.
"I wonder how much progress Hughes and Romilly made..." La'Mara thought out loud as she too altered her course.
Tag: Janet/Any
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Post by Hector J. Romilly on May 17, 2011 14:23:19 GMT -5
"We could, but we don't know what wavelengths are getting through. The transporter has a wavelength, and we know that it isn't. How many torpedoes have we got?"
Hector raised his eyebrows. He was matter-of-fact, but not lacking in smugness -- he might well have been able to think of a less destructive, more starfleet approved method, but given the choice he always -- always -- took the route that amused or interested him the most.
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Post by Commander Christian Hughes on May 17, 2011 16:06:25 GMT -5
"We could, but we don't know what wavelengths are getting through. The transporter has a wavelength, and we know that it isn't. How many torpedoes have we got?"
"Well, let's see..." said Christian, looking in the torpedo bays. "Well... approximately... 5, I think?" When he got out, there was dust all over his glasses. He wiped it off. "Is that enough for the morse code plan?" He still wasn't keen on the plan of blowing a mountain top off.
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Post by Hector J. Romilly on May 20, 2011 2:40:27 GMT -5
Hector paused. That was less than he'd hoped. "We can do 'SOS'," he said wearily, "but without something to draw attention to it, the Orion might miss it. And we'd be completely defenceless. Time for a rethink, Commander. We just need to get up there, right? The shuttle is operational in atmosphere above a certain altitude. So. If not a method to contact the Orion, we need a method to launch ourselves up there -- or else, we build another miniature, and launch it broadcasting a message. We could attach it to a torpedo like a 20th century rocket launch. If we disengage it in time, it wouldn't explode."
He rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"I could program it to seek starfleet signals, but we wouldn't know if it had worked. Who knows if they're even up there any more."
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Post by Commander Christian Hughes on May 20, 2011 16:07:07 GMT -5
Christian listened patiently. "You know, that's a better idea than the crazy 'let's-blow-up-a-mountain' plan," he concluded. "Make it so, Hector." He looked at the engineer. "Anything I can do?"
Tag: Hector
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Post by Crewman Janet Chan on May 24, 2011 1:57:53 GMT -5
"I suppose they are."
"Too bad we don't have the time to stay and study this planets environment. I'd love to go trapezing off, smell the flowers and such."
"Perhaps once we find a way off this planet we can use that to create a way to come back safely. Then we'll have all the time we need to study everything here, or just lie down and relax."
Perhaps have a picnic with our sisters, she thought to herself. She realized her sister would love this place if she could see it, then Janet wondered what would happen to her if they never got back. Would Ashley be okay on her own? Would she be taken in by the rest of the crew or would she become an outcast? Janet pushed these thoughts out of her mind because she knew they were going to make it back and she knew, or at least thought she knew, that Lt. Mishtak would not just leave them behind...
"I wonder how much progress Hughes and Romilly made..."
As the Captain said this Janet could see the silhouette of the shuttle in the distance.
"Well, I believe we're going to find out shortly."
She said as she pointed to the shuttle, she could not make out anybody around it but they would be back in a matter of minutes and they could have gone for a walk or they could be working inside, the answer would be revealed shortly...
TAG: La'Mara
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