Antebellum

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Antebellum

 

Duty Log: Hilee,Richard,B., Lt.Cmdr. Asst.Eng. U.S.S. Manticore

 

Two and one half hours to go at the finish of the dept.heads conference...now with a mere thirty minutes to go before we enter the section of space we have been sent to.

 

Thirty minutes to be ready in engineering to perform our part in this mission. The time has flown by while going over every possible scenario emergency this department and members can respond to and be prepared for.

 

The conference was a shock as it did pertain to what we all had speculated before hand,now made fact and congealed into a matter of hours and minutes. The matter is without question irregardless of personal thoughts or conjecture...other than why we of all the ships in the line have been chosen to mount the first blow and draw blood in this most definite act of war.

 

The simple facts remain ...We have been given a direct order and mission outline and we must follow those orders to the end. The engineering staff have responded to the duty and drills as always...above and by far any expectations. The times and response to each scenario is well above acceptable.

 

The drills have been a cross section of emergency drills designed to tax each and every part of engineering from bulkheads being ruptured to loss of main,secondary...and reserve power. An imminent warp core breach to a full system cascading failure and recovery drills,patching,repairing the grid,plasma rerouting,repairs...and even including massive breaches in the main systems and computer core failure...each run having a correct response routine...allowing the personal observation variables to be accounted for.

 

Time now reads fifteen minutes before time is up....fifteen minutes "Before the War" starts...may the powers that be help and preserve us. Computer...encode and send to the command staff. Computer...end log...! Beep