thor NPC Master Chief Petty Officer Zheg - Long bad day

[Alieth]

I think there are few Tellarites written and should be written more often. They are terrific fun to read, and they provide a very interesting balance between Vulcan stoicism and humans, for example. In this SIM @Sirokwrites Zheg in all his flowery glory, a character quite different from his main character and at the same time full of personality, with an amazing capacity (as is his habit) for technobabble and, to crown it all, reconnecting two SIMs a little bit different so that everything works. What more can you ask in a SIM? Add to all this that English isn't Sirok's main language.

I try to avoid posting Sirok's SIMs here because I'm obviously biased, but you deserve this one. Good job.

 

 

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((USS Thor, Deck 18 aft torpedo magazine room))

 

The tellarite was having a horrible day, his right knee was hurting him. He'd always had some problem with it, ever since a rather interesting game of parrises squares when he was young. At that time he felt sweaty, dirty, slimy and tired. And he knew that even if they got over that crisis, if they did, he would have hours and hours of work ahead of him. But he knew that what he was doing was important, every little repair, every recalibration. Small steps to get out alive, not just him, but the more than 300 souls that were crewing the Thor at the time.

 

Zheg: Come down, come down... STOP. Damn it, if I say stop, stop. ::More than speaking, he barked each word, filling the room with his voice.:: Okay, fine, good job. :: He tried afterward to lower the severity of his words and his tone, although like a good tellarite Zheg fulfilled the archetype of being rough in his manner and a perfectionist in what he did. ::

 

Master Chief Zheg and three other crew members had removed a class 4 probe from the cargo system and placed it on an anti-gravity slid As Ensign Sirok had ordered. Zheg hadn't quite figured out why take such a large probe so close to that thing that had gone through the ship like butter. He knew it could supply the internal sensors, and that it was more powerful than a tricorder, but he lacked the data to know exactly what they wanted to do.

 

Zheg approached the probe and opened a panel quickly, accessing the probe's engine compartment. It was a small warp engine, very useful so that a whole starship did not have to be diverted to explore something that could be dangerous or lead to too great a deviation in course.  But having an active warp field inside a starship, outside the hangar or engineering, while traveling in a slipstream quantum, was a huge danger.

 

Zheg: Give me that micro spanner. ::The crewman next to him quickly handed him the tool he needed, as if it were a surgical operation. Zheg was somehow sabotaging the engine. Preventing it from powering up. ::Do you have the class 3 plug in there?

 

Crewman: Here it is.. ::indicated him to immediately give him the connector and pick up the key that Zheg was using just now.::

 

Zheg struggled a bit to get the mechanism to fit where he wanted it to, that was far from standard procedure. He just tried to make it look as close as possible to one. From that point on, it was necessary to activate that mechanical plug to get the antimatter out of its container.

 

Zheg:Perfect, done. LET'S GO.

 

One of the crew took a small knob and the anti-grav sled moved with the probe towards the exit of the room. Zheg and the crewman accompanied it.

 

((USS Thor, Deck 17, Near Reserve Warp Core))

 

Around a corner appeared an anti-grav sled carrying a huge class 4 probe on it. A class of probes with tremendously powerful sensors and warp capability. After the anti-grav, petty officer Zheg appeared with an engineering crewman.

 

Zheg: Commander Pandorn. ::Zheg knew that protocol dictated that he would salute each of the officers, but what his tricorder detected told him that this was no time for formalities. ::

 

Pandorn/ Greaves / Dar / Yang /  Rouiancet: response?

 

Zheg: I have orders to get this probe as close to that thing as possible. Apparently, Lt Lovar wants to set it up so it knows what it even ate the day it was born.

 

Pandorn/ Greaves / Dar / Yang /  Rouiancet: response?

 

Zheg: Theta radiation, I've seen it on the tricorder. Yes, if it's a problem. ::He nodded at his own words.::It's funny thing...
It's a funny thing... have you seen that the radiation pulse itself looks like a brain wave?*

 

Pandorn/ Greaves / Dar / Yang /  Rouiancet: response?

 

T-Minus 5 hours for QSD overload

 

TAG&TBC--

 

*OOC I've tried to bring together two visions of the band Theta. Reading what Dar says I think that both by the word "frequency" and "I'm not a doctor" I think she was referring to a Theta wave, which is a type of brain wave
Dar: I'm no doctor but that looks like a Theta frequency...I mean, is that even possible.

 

While Pandorn, has interpreted it as Theta radiation

Pandorn: Theta band frequencies could disrupt subspace, collapsing a warp field or slipstream corridor. And it’s very toxic to humanoids in high frequency and doses.

 

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Ensign Sirok
Acting Chief Engineering Officer
USS Thor NCC-82607
Fleet Captain A. Kells, Commanding
E239702S10