New Toys, A9 Log, SD 50306.01

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::Sitting in his Ready Room, reviewing all that Maturin is doing for and doing to Manticore, he mutters as he scans the PADD::

 

Neural Interface direct connections to main control consoles, Bio-Neuro Gelpacks throughout the power grids, reinforced plasma conduits and the latest software upgrades to systems, a towable/remote lab for testing a prototype multi-phasic cloak!!  Gads and that's just the list from Engineering!

 

Then Science wants full holographic displays for all consoles and even some on the bigger tricorders, all of which have been upgraded as well.  Of course they get a replacement of the ejectable lab and even a specialized shuttle with a Science lab onboard!!?  Just what does Special Ops have planned for us with all these remote locations for testing and experimentation??

 

Medical is getting some new direct transport badges, sounds interesting with a one function badge.  They just slap it on and the body goes straight to Sickbay - I just hope they cordon off the inbound area so no patient becomes a corpse just by transporting wrong.  Then THEY want a shuttle, gads, we need a bigger garage, and improved Medical tricorders.

 

Then there's the Merrimack.  I always knew that Security wanted some bigger "guns," but really!  They call it a Long Range Attack Shuttle.  It's much larger than the Wyvern or Griffen, able to hold more crew.  It's got powerful phasers and two torpedo launchers (not too many torps, though), it's got reinforced hull plating, it's got a bio-neuro regenerating gelpack power supply, GADS!, it's got burstable propulsion so it can do Warp 3 indefinitely and get a Warp 4 thrust for 20 minutes every two hours!  Maybe we should just call it the lifeboat, eh?  Definitely needs a better name than Merrimack, I better work on that....

 

We also got the PCDs and MPDs to try out and those scare me.  The Personal Cloaks can be very useful, but I've always wondered about spending too much time bathed in that radiation, not to mention what happens when it cuts out on you and you're far from cover.  I'll take hiding and sneaking any day, but I guess I'm just showing my age.  Then you've got the MPD, heck, you get someone with a Monocular Phaser on "Hot Standby" and it can cut a groove in the floor if they trip and lop off a foot if they sneeze.  Useful, but NASTY!

 

As for crew, Maturin has always had a... "readjusting" effect on my staff.  Some new people come aboard, some others leave due to the realities and stress off Special Ops and others are "hired away."  I'm not sure where this all fits in, but we've gained a doctor, with the addition of Christie Farron, and we've lost a Dept Chief with the departure of Eden Braden.  Security, Security....  hmmmm, well I know who I want to be my CSEC - I just don't know if that person is really interested in taking on the responsibility, and I have so many questions about that choice...

 

Yes, *SO* many new toys!!  and some not so new.  Well, the station's workers are almost done, and I'll be glad to get out of this phasic bubble, it always gives me the creeps!  Time to walk the decks.