It's A Cat!
Posted on 30 Jun 2023 @ 9:48pm by Lieutenant Leland Hawksley
468 words; about a 2 minute read
Mission:
General Sim Postings
Location: Deck 08, Transporter Pattern Buffer Tank
Timeline: Current
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Deck 08, Transporter Pattern Buffer Tank
Hawksley was under deck 07, transporter room, as he accessed beneath the pattern buffers for the superconducting tokamak transporter. Working at the pattern buffer access console, Leland was analyzing why the targeting scanners for the deck 07 system were malfunctioning.
Luckily, when the malfunction was discovered, the Transporter safety systems kicked in and attenuated the deterioration of the matter stream. A crate of spatial matrix component chips from storage bay two.
“The crate of spatial matrix chips was considered inert and holding no charges.” Hawksley rubbed at his forehead, holding on to his tricorder. He read the event log submitted to engineering by the transporter chief.
“Ensign Cullen. Please set target scan verification of beam-down coordinates. Set for Energize at the ACB elements to 1.7 MeV.” Leland and Cullen were working on the assumption that a foreign magnetic field from prior transports had misaligned the targeting scanners for beam downs and beam ups.
“Aye, Sir. Entering ACB to 1.7 MeV.” Ensign Cullen taped into his computer console, direct mains with the transporters.
“Good. Now enact the protocol and attenuate to the Heisenberg compensators.” Hawksley tapped in some more controls and then shunted a metal actuation servo to the unit.
“At…” Hawksley held his forearm as he looked at his chunky silver wrist chronometer. “00.332, reset scanners to null.”
Waiting as time passed, Hawksley then brought up the interface. “Good, we’re making progress. The targeting scanners only reported a slight re-verification of the pattern buffer target.”
“Wait.” Leland then took a drink from his silver mug, his eyes searching the data and turning back to Cullen with a grin. “We need to release the ACB lock to ensure the Doppler compensation has been synchronized. That’s what was shunted to auto-detect.” He snorted. Leland grinned and smiled as he happily entered the buffers of the new coding.
“Hey. You get excited.” Cullen chuckled. He then began to place panels back into their cowlings around the buffer unit.
“Can you blame me? It’s engineering! Of course, I get excited! I just fixed our transporter!” Leland gloated.
=/\= Warning. =/\= The Main Computer intoned. =/\= Incoming transport. Pattern buffer re-materialization commencing. =/\=
“What’s this? I didn’t initiate a buffer purging yet?” Leland turned to Ensign Cullen. His face had just as little a clue as the Engineer's.
“Ok. Whatever’s beaming through. We must compensate the ACB for a biofilter scan on waveguide emitter array 00.678 MeV.” Hawksley watched the screen of the transporter pad as the quantum emitters began to beam a short, small-statured…
“A …” Hawksley watched with a confused look. “Cat.”
“Hunh. It’s a cat.” Ensign Cullen looked at the orange and white-haired tabby. It sat there staring back at
the two officers before it decided to lick its paw.
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Lieutenant Leland Hawksley
Chief Engineer
USS Tomcat
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