State of Engineering Address

[WxMurray 0]

Engineering. It was arguably more important than the bridge. It was the life of the ship. Warp drive? Yeah, that was there. Main power? That too. Maintenance was based in engineering, as was damage control. Impulse power and RCS were also looked after by the engineers. And, of course, engineering was the place emergency command functions could be transferred to in case the bridge was unusable for one reason or another. It was where everything happened.

 

And he was in charge of it all.

 

Major Warner X. Murray of the NFS Reaent NCC-3345-C, Chief Engineering Officer. Getting there wasn’t the most pleasant of stories. His predecessor had been killed when he was thrown against an exposed EPS conduit during hand-to-hand combat when the ship was boarded. Murray wasn’t about to let that happen to him.

 

“You,” he said to a nearby engineer, “I want all EPS conduits covered. I don’t want anyone else ending up like Colonel Weaver, particularly me.”

 

Those exposed panels were bad news. Unfortunately, the ship was getting worse and worse, especially after the destruction of the Organia Shipyards a year prior; they didn’t have the parts coming in that they needed. Replicator power had already been bypassed once because they didn’t have the component needed to make the necessary repairs.

 

Murray sighed as he had a seat in his office. Things were not good. If Starfleet didn’t take them out of action, it wouldn’t be long before the state of the ship would.

[Kestra 0]

Awesome log Murray. You're making me miss engineering already! :)