Checking out the core
Posted on Sat May 17th, 2025 @ 5:04pm by Lieutenant Commander Tarian Aloria
Edited on on Sun May 18th, 2025 @ 11:02pm
542 words; about a 3 minute read
Mission:
In The Nick Of Time
Location: Chronal Travel System Access - Deck 3 - USS Herodotus
Timeline: MD001 1300 hrs
Tarian walked out of the Turbolift onto Deck Two and made his way down to the door labeled "CHRONAL TRAVEL SYSTEM ACCESS." Behind those doors stood the system access of the ship's ability to travel through time and space.
Tarian wanted to do some final tests of his own and make sure that the ship wouldn't come flying apart due to any miscalculation on his part. That included making sure that the ship's system to travel through time was at peak efficiency as well. Walking up to the door, Tarian input a few commands and the doors parted for him to enter.
What Tarian didn't realize was just how massive the room really was compared to some of the rest of the ship. The doors shut quietly with a hiss behind Tarian as he walked inside and looked around. There were several panels and devices glowing a blue hue that Tarian could name without batting an eye. Some of them, he knew what they were and how they worked. But, he didn't know the specialized name of them.
Walking up to one of the consoles, Tarian input his command codes and information quickly started to fill the screen. It displayed the current status of all chronal travel systems and how much power they both used and put out. Tarian quickly input a few more commands and brought up all temporal systems that the ship had at its use. Smiling, Tarian saw that everything that the ship's Chief Engineer had done was working amazingly well.
"What a well oiled machine this ship is. Now, lets do some tests and see if some of my simulations hold up and don't throw us through a loop," Tarian said to himself as he started to run some simulations in the travel systems. While he was confident in his abilities, Tarian had been in the game long enough to know that running simulations never hurt anyone. Especially if it made sure that the ship didn't end up somewhere that they didn't belong or didn't want to end up at.
Tarian had seen that happen on more than one occasion throughout his career with the DTI. On one such occasion, he was sent back to gather a group of historians and anthropologists that had gotten stranded in Ancient Pompeii during the explosion because they had miscalculated their destination by a few days. They thought that they would be arriving a few days before the eruption of the volcano, but ended up mere moments before the explosion actually happened.
As he was reminiscing about the past, the computer beeped and showed Tarian the results of his various simulations. All of them had come out as nearly perfect as humanly possible. Tarian saved all the information from the simulations and saved it to his personal database back in his office. Tarian made sure to close everything out as he was satisfied to how everything was coming along. Now, all that everyone on the ship had to do was wait to get to the Kroat homeworld, including Tarian himself.
A Post By
Lieutenant Commander Tarian Aloria
Chief Temporal Operations Officer
USS Herodotus DTI-30656
RSS Feed