A Surprising Invite

Posted on Sun Jul 30th, 2023 @ 12:26pm by Lieutenant Alula Beru

318 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: https://www.uss-deliverance.starfleetuk.org/index.php/sim/missions/id/1
Location: DS9-Lt Beru’s Quarters
Timeline: Pre-Deliverance Arrival

Alula finished going over the USS Deliverance’s warp propulsion system schematics and tapped the screen to pull up the specs on its dilithium swirl chamber. This was the fifth time she’d gone over it, not wanting to miss anything. She closed her eyes for a few moments and envisioned the chamber in her mind, committing to memory the flow chart of power couplings and conduits. She had been studying the ship’s technology w/ its bio-neural circuitry and new sensor suits for 4 days in her quarters here on DS9 while waiting for the Deliverance to arrive. She was glad of the extra time because this ship had many new systems she needed to familiarize herself with before she took over as Chief of Engineering.
The variable orientation pylons had her somewhat concerned and spent extra time going over this system. Unlike many other starships having fixed orientation pylons, the Deliverance utilized a deployable system that enables her warp engines to be situated, when called upon, in a position 90 degrees from the ship’s hull that decreased sub space stresses and delivered a safer, stronger and more dimensional-benevolent warp field.

Alula sat back and rubbed her cranial ridge and sighed,, “Translation? More moving parts, means more things that can break, equals more work for me!”

She heard a soft chime ring out from the monitor. Closing the schematics, she opened up her message center to find a communique from one of her soon-to-be new crew mates. It was an invitation to lunch at Quarks! Alula had been so consumed w/ studying the new ship, that after her initial venture to Quarks the first evening of her arrival on DS9, she holed-up in her quarters ever since. She hadn’t even thought to see if other crew members might be aboard the space station. “Sometimes I have such a one-track mind,” she laughed and immediately accepted the invitation.

 

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