ILLUMINARRPG: (6 - 0930) Engineers mate Peter Preston

[Dieter Gregory]

Mission:  A Cure Delayed
Day: 6
Stardate: 2445.10.30

(USS Illuminar - Deck 10 - Main Shuttlebay - Engineers Mate Peter 
Preston - 0930)

This officer, a fully commissioned officer, was going to let him work on 
the nacelle.  Sure he'd taken them apart and put them back together, but 
those were practice ones.  This was the real deal.

~Wait till I tell Boimier, he's going to be so jealous.  I bet he's not 
getting these opportunities where he is.~

   Ensign Buckaroo handed him a PADD.   “If you have any questions the 
schematics of the nacelle is on this PADD, but someone of your obvious 
intelligence should have this done in no time.  I’m certain that you 
hold some kind of record in repairing warp nacelles from the academy.”

"Well sir, now that you mention it," he began when Buckaroo patted him 
on the cheek. "I shall be back as soon as I can.”  He headed to the exit 
then turned back.  “Look, be a pal.  If you finish with this before I 
get back, could you start tearing down the nacelles on the next shuttle. 
  I’m sure I’ll be back before then but the work never ends down here in 
the “Bay”.”

Preston watched him go before going over to the Nacelle.  Getting down 
to business, he started by finishing making the connections using the 
hyper-spanner.  Next came adjusting the phase coils.  After scanning 
the  system, he began to adjust the coils with the phase coil 
resonator.  When coils were finally zeroed in, he locked them down and 
continued on his way down the Nacelle.

It was good to be doing some real engineering here.  While he worked, he 
daydreamed about being the chief engineer on a ship.  The prestige that 
carried with that job.  He'd show that girl back home that she was wrong 
about him.

Suddenly an alarm went of, snapping Preston out of his revere.  ~Shit~ 
he thought, realizing that he connected the ramscoop to the antimatter ods.

He quickly disconnected it and the alarm stopped.  ~Damn.  Better pay 
more attention.  Heidi can wait till later.~

Over a loudspeaker came a voice. "Be careful down there Bigboote, don't 
go blowing up my shuttles."

Peter looked confused, he called out, "Its me.  Peter Preston, Engineers 
Mate Sir.  Ensign Buckaroo left me to finish this up while he got the 
oscillation overthruster that he left in Jeffries Tube 17 Baker. "

A man came walking towards him. "You're an Engineers Mate?'

"Yes sir, " he said as he jumped to attention.

"You tell Ensign Buckaroo that Ensign Raid Montero is going to be flying 
this thing soon and the overthruster better be working.  Oh, and while 
you're at it, clean out the waste reclaimation system.  Something isn't 
right with it.   It could use a good interior clean as well."

"But sir, Ensign Buckaroo told me to start working on the nacelles on 
that shuttle," he pointed to a second shuttlecraft.

"Well Engineers Mate, he's not here, and I out rank him, so after you 
finish prepping this shuttle, you can go work on the other nacelles.  I 
expect white glove treatment."

"Yes sir," Preston said meekly.

"Thataboy."

Preston watched the pilot walk away and sighed.  Lots of work today.

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