Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve Gorak" data-source="post: 3677814" data-attributes="member: 15132">OCC: Please strike the comment about only minor adjustments being necessary on the engines; I'll edit the post.IC: Ze-Antonio is livid when he comes back on the deck: " Captain, based on my preliminary assessment, it appears that the engines suffered a critical failure during the acceleration stage. We're lucky to be alive! The second set of backup ionizers took over when the primary ion-drive and the primary backup drive failed...of course, the backups are not designed to run for so long, and we're fortunate the field dampeners managed to keep them in one piece... the cooling system was severely damaged too, so the computer likely maintained a low speed to keep things within tolerances... The things that troubles me the most is that the failure seems to have occurred rather soon after our departure." He takes a breath, beads of sweat running down his forehead. He then continues, " Captain, the primary engine systems were thoroughly tested prior to our departure, and if it weren't for the backups and some redundant designs, the failure would have destroyed the ship... I don't like the implications of this, and I need to evaluate the propulsion system more to know what caused the problem" Somewhat regaining his composure, he adds "We have about 53% of our fuel left, and had it not been for some solid engineering from our life support designers, the ship would have been a floating cemetery".[sblock=lonesoldier] Hey Lonesoldier,I'm being a bit vague about the cause of the failure, because I don't know where you want to go with this. I figured it wouldn't hurt implying sabotage, heck, it may even give you some ideas... Anyways, please let me know what Ze saw as far as the cause of the failure[/sblock]</blockquote>

Verification