Chapter 4: The disaster...
"What was that?" Amelia's eyes opened wide she was terror-stricken. "Report..." No one could give her any answers, but they were checking their stations frantically even the Vulcan was doing the same. When a voice crackled over the internship communications "Captain we wont be going to warp for a few days, the intermix pressure valve has blown and its going to take me two days to repair it." This was all Amelia needed they were out of range of Vulcan and any beacons so they were unable to communicate with starfleet.
She flicked the switch on her armchair to communicate with engineering, "get it repaired Sarah." She turned on Jackson, "send out a distress call as soon as Enterprise enters our sensor range we might as well cast our anchor over board and stay where we are." Jamie slowed Freedom down with another push of a bar and they came to a dead stop. Freedom was going nowhere without warp drive it would take them a few days to reach their destination and they didn't have a few days.
Day 2 into the unscheduled mission...
Sarah had been working around the clock to try and find out where the problem was in the warp drive as it just wasn't in the damaged intermix pressure valve it had been in the warp chamber itself as in further investigation they had found that the Dilithium crystals were cracked. So they were going to have to find new Dilithium crystals, as they were no use. The crew was tired and to the point of exhaustion as they were working hard trying to get the ship ready for the arrival of Enterprise, but it wasn't looking good they had begun the travel of impulse towards an unpopulated world where the moon apparently had a fresh supply of crystals.
Amelia had spent the last few hours in her quarters as the paper work for the repairs to the ship was coming in thick and fast as the more areas they checked the more damage they found. This NX class ship was not ready for warp 6, she should have been fully tested before she departed as now they were having to make repairs which was costing them time from there current goal and mission. Plus they didn't have the right equipment to repair the ship so they were improvising but slowly but surely they were making progress to morale and the ship...
To be continued...
"What was that?" Amelia's eyes opened wide she was terror-stricken. "Report..." No one could give her any answers, but they were checking their stations frantically even the Vulcan was doing the same. When a voice crackled over the internship communications "Captain we wont be going to warp for a few days, the intermix pressure valve has blown and its going to take me two days to repair it." This was all Amelia needed they were out of range of Vulcan and any beacons so they were unable to communicate with starfleet.
She flicked the switch on her armchair to communicate with engineering, "get it repaired Sarah." She turned on Jackson, "send out a distress call as soon as Enterprise enters our sensor range we might as well cast our anchor over board and stay where we are." Jamie slowed Freedom down with another push of a bar and they came to a dead stop. Freedom was going nowhere without warp drive it would take them a few days to reach their destination and they didn't have a few days.
Day 2 into the unscheduled mission...
Sarah had been working around the clock to try and find out where the problem was in the warp drive as it just wasn't in the damaged intermix pressure valve it had been in the warp chamber itself as in further investigation they had found that the Dilithium crystals were cracked. So they were going to have to find new Dilithium crystals, as they were no use. The crew was tired and to the point of exhaustion as they were working hard trying to get the ship ready for the arrival of Enterprise, but it wasn't looking good they had begun the travel of impulse towards an unpopulated world where the moon apparently had a fresh supply of crystals.
Amelia had spent the last few hours in her quarters as the paper work for the repairs to the ship was coming in thick and fast as the more areas they checked the more damage they found. This NX class ship was not ready for warp 6, she should have been fully tested before she departed as now they were having to make repairs which was costing them time from there current goal and mission. Plus they didn't have the right equipment to repair the ship so they were improvising but slowly but surely they were making progress to morale and the ship...
To be continued...