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Cmdr Ba'alyo

Damage and the Wanderings

Attached is a graphic depicting internal damage to the starship Challenger and the wanderings of those crewmembers who awoke in their amnesic state.

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In summary of the above graphic:

--Seiben / Lessard (and presumably Juno) remain on the bridge.

--Leslie / Reed are in impulse engineering, having restored full power to two (of 12) fusion engines.

--Savros / Spencer are on Deck 25, assessing onboard damage via the restored secondary computer core

--Freeman is on Deck 24, having restored and reinitialized the secondary computer core

--(Ana) Poldara / Kimiko are on Deck 7, having reinitialized the primary computer core and fiddled with power allocation

--M'Guire's wanderings have intersected Freeman's, but he seems to have heading off to look for a lifepod

--Harris / (Michael) Poldara were forced to flee into a Jeffries tube, after some of Deck 3 decompressed

 

The location of other characters (Ba'alyo, Nitara, T'ashaya, and Teros) is not shown, but will be noted once revealed.

 

[Note: This graphic is based on the ST:Generations MSD, which assumes a 34-deck Excelsior (Mk II) interior layout. Although I've referenced this graphic during the plotline, there are differences with our posted deck description.]

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The starship Challenger and its crew were damaged.

 

It had been three hours since the events which had caused both. Two explosions had ripped into the superstructure of the mighty starship, damaging systems and exposing some of the inner decks to space.

 

The first had been further away, above and in front of the ship. Fragments had ripped into the upper foresection of the saucer, punching holes in the primary hull into Decks 3, 4, and 5. Force fields had deployed to preserve the atmosphere, but eventually failed due to increasing demands on impulse power. Portions of those decks were now in vacuum. Emergency bulkheads had lowered to protect the rest of the ship.

 

The second explosion had been near the connecting "neck" of the ship and much closer. Debris had torn into the underside of the saucer, as well as portions of the secondary hull. The aft sections of Deck 11 and 12 on the saucer had eventually decompressed, as had the fore sections of Decks 13 - 16, including the photon torpedo complex. Again, bulkheads had lowered to protect the rest of the ship.

 

The damage had been more than structural. Fluctuations in the magnetic constriction fields had engaged automatic safety protocols in Main Engineering. The warp intermix chamber had been flushed of reactants to avoid a catastrophic core breach. Plasma had been valved to the warp field coils, then vented overboard through the nacelles. Deuterium and antimatter in the core had been routed to their respective storage containment pods. The power demands of the ship had fallen to the impulse engines; sadly, only two of the twelve fusion generators had been running at 80% capacity, which was not enough to sustain both life support and the atmospheric force fields for more than a few hours. One by one, those fields had failed, decompressing the areas near the hull breaches. Eventually, the Main Shuttlebay field had collapsed as well, blowing several unanchored shuttlecraft out of the ship.

 

The unique shock effect had disrupted the starboard and port primary computer cores, as well as the secondary core in engineering. The internal communications and sensors had overloaded and knocked offline. The external versions of these systems was non-functional, since subspace sensors and transceivers had been ionized. Without warp engines online, weapons and defensive shields were virtually powerless.

 

The crew itself remained damaged, unable to access their memories or identities. Hundreds were still unconscious, with several minor injuries attributable to their collapse. A handful had been killed in the blasts, explosive decompression, or asphyxiated after failure of the force fields.

 

But things were improving.

 

A dozen officers and crew were making their way through the ship, trying to understand and correct their situation. While none of them knew their own names, teams had managed to reinitialize the computer cores and restore internal communications. The two active fusion engines had been brought to 100%, offering enough power to maintain life support and restore the atmospheric shields. Some had shown signs of remembering skills they were unaware they possessed.

 

Things were improving. But the approach of the other ship might make things much worse.

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