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Shane

"Makin' Mods"

On board the Verbistul, in the small shuttle bay, Shane stood back to take a break from the work of the Qob's engineers. Will and Zaphod were scurrying around the Verbistul's two shuttles, finishing the last few upgrades need to allow the craft to operate underwater. He eyed the Catian for a bit as he grabbed a fusion welder and hurried back into the shuttle. Looks like the furball can hold his own like the Guardian. Good, that green skinned heap o' junk needs a decent engineering team. Less work fer me. Pulling his old tricorder from the holster on his belt, he turned his back to the crew and stretched out his bionic arm with a hiss to lean against the bulkhead.

>>ACCESSING LOG FILE<<

 

>>LOG FILE FOUND-ENCRYPTION CODE NEEDED<<

 

>>ENCRYPTION ENTERED...ACCEPTED<<

 

>>CHIEF ENGINEERS LOG<<

 

>>ENTRY 4<<

 

>>BEGIN ENTRY<<

"Chief Engineer's log, May 1 2420. We're a couple hours from finishin' the modifications needed to make the Verbistul's shuttlecraft submersible. The process wasn't near as complicated as some were expecting; obviously some of these guys have never heard of a thing called "jerry-riggin." Basically what was needed was to re-enforce both the shields of the craft and their Structural Integrity support systems. We did this by boostin' these system's power reserves by leachin' off of the warp systems. The craft don't have the power for warp, but they'll get the crew down to the planet and through the water provided they're not shot down.

We should be able to use a similar entry to what we used for the underwater probe, this time firin' the Qob's disrupters as the shuttles aren't armed. The shuttles will use their shields to withstand the hull stresses of travelin' underwater, but only enough for about 60 kilometers per hour. Once the shuttles have reached the shoreline, they'll power down the shields at standstill. The mods we've made to the SI system should allow the hulls to withstand the pressure up to one hundred feet.

 

The airlocks were simple to create. We sectioned off the back four feet of the shuttle's interior with force field emitters from the Qob's repair reserves. This'll allow the ground crew to step into the sectioned area, put up the force field and open up the back hatch to get wet. We installed pumps directly into the hulls usin' spares from the Qob and others..."

 

At this Shane paused, thinking of the pumps silently stolen from the Verbistul's lavatory system.

 

"...from elsewhere. The pumps will make sure we keep most of the shuttle craft interior dry and allow us to re-use them. That's it for now.

 

>>ENTRY END<<

 

 

>>LOG FILE STORED<<

>>COPY FORWARDED TO JOE MANNING<<

Shane snapped shut the tricorder, turned and started back towards the work area. "Checkov," he barked as he grabbed a hypospanner, "I wanted that jyking pump done yesterday!"

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