Visual Flight Rules

Posted on Tue May 30, 2017 @ 10:49am by Lieutenant Marisa Cheshire & Commodore Michael Aravan

Mission: Avatar
Location: Carrier Wing 27 Hangar
Timeline: MD9 || 1500 Hours

The second Marisa materialised she began barking orders. "Remove your badges, put on your EVA suits and disable as many non essential functions as possible" was what it came down too. Within a few minutes the lines connecting the arresting beams, the traffic control network antennas and a couple of phaser arrays that would threaten any launch were disabled by the crew and Tactical system engineers. Once that was done she ordered a squadron to launch while the rest of them collected the spare computer cores.

It occurred to her that transporting them via the cargolift was a no go with the computer in it's current state, as was using the transporters aboard the ship, and she doubted the small device Rho had given her could move that much mass. Marisa came up with a couple of alternatives; they could try and disable the lift and the gravity generators for the shaft and transport them through the micro gravity or they could space walk them to an airlock on deck 22. She called the Crew Chief to her office to discuss the situation after she had donned her air tight flight suit.

While she waited for him to arrive she thought she'd have another go at the PADD, putting 2 and 2 together and concluding they were related. It rebooted with a weird prompt so perhaps it was the "Life form" as Barnes had suggested trying to communicate. That was Marisa's conclusion anyway as she took it from her top draw and activated it.

Hello? she typed in with gloved fingers as she looked at the device with a curious expression.

As before, the PADD did nothing but the cursor continued to blink as it did before.

With a shrug she placed the device on the desk and pulled out her side arm, setting it to it's highest setting before firing on it, vaporising it on her desk. It was probably a futile gesture, if the entity could back itself up on a PADD it had hundreds of options, but at least it wasn't hers.

A Bajoran Ensign in a gold uniform came onto the flight deck with a team of sixteen behind him and inquired as to where the CAG could be found. A minute later, he approached her with a nod. "Lieutenant Cheshire? I'm Ensign Tasyi Vup and was told to report here to help get the computer cores from your fighters."

Marisa set her phaser back to it's default setting before looking at the engineer. "I've got 12 from storage and 8 from the fighters extracted and ready to go." She said as she holstered her sidearm, her voice slightly distorted by the speaker it was coming from "Have you got a method of transporting them? If not we can space walk them."

"Space walk them where?" Vup asked with a raised eyebrow. Sure, his personnel had hovercarts and such, but he had no idea where anything was supposed to go. "We're just here to pull them for you. Where are they supposed to go?"

"To the computer core." Marisa replied empathetically. She hadn't really explained what was going on to her own staff, just bossed everyone around and while looking urgent. "Surely you've noticed the technical hiccups we've been having. With that said I don't trust the ships transporters or lifts. My Crew Chief tells me these things can be fragile out of their housings and we've not got time to pack them."

"I was told that the primary core was being taken offline," Vup said. "And yes, I'm well aware of the hiccups, if that's how you want to put them. Engineering is locked down at the moment and they're trying to get access to the transwarp drive to shut it down before we end up in the Gamma Quadrant or another one we haven't been to yet. Where do you want us to start?"

"I want ten of them at engineering, the rest of them at the computer core." She reiterated. "But I want to know how you're transporting them first." Marisa said firmly. "Like I said, these things are fragile and I'm not trusting this ship to transport them, computer core or no."

"We can put them in stasis chambers and transport them through the ship," Vup said. "They won't be disturbed at all, but we'll have a lot of crawling through Jeffries Tubes since the turbolifts are offline. Hopefully, we'll get that problem sorted out by the time we get all of of the cores out of your fighters. Which ones do you want pulled?"

"The few for engineering is acceptable," Marisa said with a slight shrug "but you're not crawling up 20 something decks to the computer core with these things." She sighed slightly, her breath fogging up her helmet a little "If you guys can disable the gravity generators along the 'lift shafts anyone with an RCS pack can navigate through the ship much faster." Her crew was already pulling the cores from a set of sidelined Razors, their pilots looking on their craft with sadness.

"Another team is working on that," the Bajoran said as he directed his men to begin pulling the cores of the fighters that were lined up. They headed off to begin the removal while being careful, although some of them seemed paranoid about their surroundings. Still, they did their work with efficiency and it wasn't long before they had a pattern down and by the time they were on the third fighter, the time to remove each one was reduced by ten minutes. "What kind of issues have you had down here, Lieutenant?"

"I just had a PADD go funny on me and flash it's memory. Nothing dramatic." she said with a shrug.

"That's not bad at all," Vup said. "At least your fighters didn't try to kill you."

An hour later, the last memory core was pulled out and loaded. "We're all ready to go, Lieutenant," he said.

"Alright." Marisa said, clapping her hands together. "Is the gravity off in the turbolift?"

"Yes, but we'll be taking a big chance taking the shafts if the turbolifts come back on," Vup responded. "It would be easier to take them up the side of the ship to the closest airlock and taking them into the right deck."

"Like I originally suggested?" Marisa said with a slight shrug "Well, we're all suited up and ready to go, so just point us towards the airlocks closest to where these things need to go and we'll get them over there."

"Deck nineteen," Vup said as he gave a check on all the bundled cores. "Would you like me and my team to help you, too?"

"We're already suited up and pretty much useless at a time like this. Probably have more experience in zero g too. We'll deal with it, you should report back to your senior officer." Marisa said with a soft smile.

"Yes, Ma'am," Vup said before he turned to his team as he headed out. "Let's go. There's more to be done."