<USS Avalon> A Day's Work by Ensign Anthony Manson
- From: Anthony Manson <circus_ofde_damned@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Avalon Sim <avalon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:49:34 -0800 (PST)
A Days Work
by Ensign Anthony Manson
The reports came in an orderly fashion. Unfortunately, Anthony was unable to
keep up since most of the reports were on confirming repairs and adjusting the
ships systems in accordance to everyone?s high demands. He only wondered how
the other Ops officers manage to get the work done as it seem to be that this
sort of situation was becoming a regular basis.
A day ago there was a power fluctuation near engineering, it was nothing minor
until the reports started coming up with people complaining that they had
little to no power on their work station or replicators. It turned out to be a
search within the computer records for any other fluctuations or problems
present during the last few days. He picked up a few other PADDs that had more
reports, and two things happened again. He confirmed them and ended up
searching for the problem.
It wasn?t until and hour later that he found a report that Phillipa confirmed.
It was the report that stated an engineer got hurt during a repair on a power
relay. He didn?t understand what the other problems had to do with it, but
after further investigation, it became apparent that it was a start of a domino
effect of other problems. Anthony checked the power relay, and reports came in
that it was fixed. But according to his internal sensor reading, it was still
causing trouble. Having no hesitation about his actions, he rerouted the power
being sent into that relay and sent it elsewhere so that the energy could still
be redistributed evenly. And not to mention that it was near the reactor core.
He went back to the report. Apparently, the engineer named Lt. K?etrall was
injured severely from the explosion and caused her to be in sickbay and in
intensive care. Questions from other sub head department arose asking why ship
Operations was not inform of this repair and even made complaints that the
recent incident caused set backs to their task. Anthony shook his head, a
person was just injured and yet all the other heads were more concern for their
task instead. Anthony read on, the repair was discontinued and resumed as
quickly. But the malfunction continued that eventually spread throughout a
small area of the lower part of the ship.
The only question to Anthony was why Operations was not informed. Without a
doubt, engineering could get it done without notifying Ops, and in turn if Ops
noticed this turn of events, it was within their duty to accommodate such
changes. But a power relay near the reactor core, an no one on the Operations
console noticed? Or was not informed? Anthony wasn?t going to try figuring it
out, as it seemed that it would only lead to more questions that could not be
possibly answered. He also pondered if he should send a note out to engineering
asking them in the future to inform Ops, that way if they had their hand full,
Ops could take over the management of the power relay distribution.
In a minute, he quickly formed a note and sent it through the ship?s internal
communications network. A simple note.
After finding out the origin of the problem, and thus circum-navigating the
power elsewhere until such time that the relay and it?s surrounding system was
qualified as safe, Anthony confirmed all it?s reports and sent them away.
He looked up onto his console. And instead of being predominantly empty and
devoid of any obstructive objects, it was the exact opposite.
There were more PADDs.
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