CHAPTER THREE
Gold made a subspace communication to Admiral Scott (Scott had been following what was happening through Captain Gold he and Brian were in the same boat both awoke to find years gone by and friends dead). Gold told Scott what Brian asked Gold "By god I thinka that's a grand idea laddie, what kind of ship do you want? What you gonna do?" Scott asked
"Well I've looked at Federation Junkyard Alpha four's ship manifest they've got a good selection and I've picked out one of the Yorkshire classes they've got there and I'm going to be refitting the ship as a cargo transport" Brian said "But there's a problem" Brian said casting a look towards the floor "And that is" Scott asked "It cost 15 thousand credits and I don't have that kind of credit plus the ships warp core, phasers, shield generator, computer core, transporters, replicators, and impulse engines were either stripped or removed and that's not even the worst thing it's warp nacelles were destroyed in the ending days of the Dominion war" Brian said taking a big breath of air in now. "That's no problem I can call in a favor and get you that ship in exchange you do some cargo runs and supply missions for the Federation and that ships yours" Scott said.
"But what about the warp core, nacelles and all the other stuff" Brian said "You forget the captain of that ship is an SCE crewmember and the SCE always help crew out, "as for the warp core and nacelles there just happens that Utopia shipyards could build you variable warp geometry nacelles as for the core try using one there from another starship" Gold said as Scott agreed with him, as for the other systems the SCE can get some of them running the rest goes to a star base refit team" Scott said. "The Davinci will stop at star base 66 for a new computer core, impulse coils, replicators and the warp nacelle, when you get there the Davinci will beam over an engineering team when you get the ship running you can meet with the Davinci and transfer the crew back" Scott said "I" am going to have a hard time choosing any of the crew would kill for there own rooms on your ship" Gold sighed
It was two hours after the Davinci left, the engineering team consisted of six people Nate Chen, Allen Hopper, Luke Mac, Katie Homes, Steph Bay, and Carol Clark plus men "Ok people Chen, Hopper, and Bay start putting the nacelles on, Homes and Clark replace and align the impulse coils, Bay and I will see about the warp core" Ay sir was said all around. It took close to a month to get the ship running the nacelles were the hardest and the warp core was from an Akeria class starship, we had to rig a new stronger SIF field and internal dampeners this ships top warp speed was now warp 9.72 compared to 8.5 which was suppose to be it's maximum also we found some type 7 phaser arrays and installed them and got some of the replicators working.
"Take us out Homes one quarter impulse" Yes sir Homes responded "helm prepare to go to warp 8.5 and then work us up to 9.72 we've got to set the internal dampeners" Ay Homes said, warp 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, warp 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 ,9.3, 9.4, 9.5 the ship lurch violently "hulls buckling" Homes said "engineering activate the new SIF, sir it's never been tested" Hopper said "Bring the dam thing online now" ordered Brian "ay sir engaging enhanced structural integrity field "hull stress dropping to normal" Homes said. "Sir we're holding at warp 9.5, increasing to 9.6, 9.72 and holding Homes said "engineering how's warp power holding steady sir" Hopper said. Helm plot course to star base 66 warp 9.3 and inform them we're on our way "Captain to all hands report to mess hall for a celebration job well done people "Sir" Holms said "what's the name of this ship, there asking" Homes said "This is the civilian cargo ship HEAVENS CHARM that's the name" Brian said. In the mess hall Brian got the whole crew to do two 21st century dances that went out of style long ago (yes Brian got them doing the Macarena and the Electric slide). It took star base 66 repair teams 1,6, and 8 to bring everything up to refit and now Brian was on his way to transfer the Davinci crew back "we're going to miss our quarters here they all said as the went back to sharing cramped quarters.