[Aux Engineering]
It was an interesting question, but it caused him to pull the corner of his mouth up. "There are two ways to deal with fear. Yes, I am scared, but I could either let fear control me, or utilize fear to action. Fear is healthy for humanoids. Fear reminds us of our own fallibility, our own mortality. It reminds us to stay alert at the universe around us. Fear keeps me in perspective, in order to lead my crew, and protect my crew. As long as you are on this ship, you are my responsibility."
After what seemed like eternity, the lights around them brightened as the tell tale sign of system restoration occurred. He glanced around and called out.
"Computer, status of life support on the bridge."
Life support has been restored. Bridge functions are normal.
With a sigh of relief, he turned to answer Stark. "We have very little time. Inzjana, transfer deflector controls here and activate the beam. Monitor the progress. Stark, I want a level 5 diagnositic on all ship systems, and when our mission is done, I want a full Level 1 sweep. Schrock, you need to go through the computer and all systems. Find all of Happy and set up a temporary habitat within the computer for her. Jaeger, I need you on the bridge to monitor and coordinate the shuttles. They deserve to know that we are available again. We know Inzjana's beam works, and luckily, I think it's not too late. Inzjana, join us on the Bridge after you are satisfied with the beam. As for you two," he said, looking at Ardyn and Ariste, "we'll talk about this later. Understood?" he asked, waiting for confirmation.
"Very well, dismissed." he said, turning and leaving the room, heading back to the Bridge.
[Bridge]
By the time they reached the bridge, there was a hail waiting from one of the Federation ships on their way. With a relief, they were going to arrive within an hour. The Nebula class had not only exceeded standard warp limit, but they were able to coax their warp engines to exceed their maximum for a period of time. It meant that they would have to do repairs after they arrived before they could warp, but it also meant that the rest of the people on the planet could be evacuated.
"Let the away team know that help is within the hour."
AUX ENGINEERINGInzjana raised an eyebrow at the captain's talk about the emotion called
fear and simply said
"Aye Captain," at the order to restart the nucleonic beam.
Of course, like all humanoids, or Vulcanoids in this case, Inzjana felt fear just like any other Vulcan, where they differ is how they use it. After all, fear is simply a negative emotional response to unknown future events. Vulcans simply known that whatever is going to happen will, no matter how much pondering anyone gives it. Therefore, it is illogical to be concerned about what you cannot change.
"Computer, transfer navigational deflector control to this station," Inzjana asked as she moved to the nearest terminal.
"Report on status of of deflector dish." "Acknowledged; Navigational Deflector Array, functioning within normal parameters." As the user interface had shifted to that of the main navigational deflector array, Inzjana accessed the firing program and touched the 'continue' icon that had been waiting for her ever since the beam was cut short from its assigned countdown.
The powerful nucleonic beam, a 50/50 mix of neutrons and protons flashed forward from the deflector dish and as it hit the atmospheric particles, they were displaced, generating small shock-waves from the beam. The beam penetrated the already existing hole in the planet's mantle and continued the inverse piezoelectric effect and growth of the Dilithium Crystals
Crystal growth was now retarded by 50 percent, 60 percent...and rising. Core temperature was now increasing, but that was to be expected and Inzjana remained at the console to monitor the beam integrity and the planetary core's stability. Breathing a sigh of of relief, Inzjana noted that the beam was was doing what it was supposed to do and that was give the colonists and the shuttle pilot's more time. Inzjana calculated though that the beam needed to be maintain for a much longer period of time now, but that was not without precedence, after all, it was cut short to begin with, so she programmed the computer to maintain the beam for another 12 minutes. Unfortunately, the dish wasn't designed to handle this much particle energy for this amount of time, so it would definitely need repairs, or replacement when they returned to Starbase Columbus.
Inzjana transferred the telemetry and control to her VISR and made her way to the bridge and as she stepped in to the turbolift to the bridge she tapped her combadge.
"Captain, telemetry shows that the nucleonic beam is functioning as expected and I am now on my way to the bridge. I estimate the planet now has at least twelve hours of existence left thanks to the retardation of Dilithium Crystal Growth and the inverse piezoelectric effect. Unfortunately the ambient temperature of the planet has now reached 55 Celsius and is rising, sir." As the doors opened, Inzjana was relieved to actually find herself on the bridge, given the nascent artificial intelligence in the ship's main computer core and made her way to science station one, logging in and taking her VISR off and putting them back in her pocket, the VISR returning to its normal tricorder function.
By the time she had made it to the bridge and to her station, time was up and Inzjana terminated the beam. Any longer and the ship would probably suffer the same fate as the planet below, it was a risk, but then, what isn't?
"Reporting for duty captain," Inzjana stated,
"I have now terminated the beam and telemetry is showing that the planet has stabilized enough to evacuate the colonists. Core temperature is now unfortunately at five hundred percent and climbing. We now have an additional 12 hours by estimates, sir."
