Test Flight of the Excelsior
Polsk conducts a Transwarp test flight to Skantos and back.
Excelsior Leaves Starbase 1.
On the Bridge of Excelsior ...
The captain exists a turbolift, the bridge is a large circular space, with many crew members meaning consoles on spanning the walls. The Helmsman and Weapons officer sit ahead of the captains chair, which is dead center of the Bridge, and is raised a bit. There is a large screen in the front of the bridge, viewing the space ahead of the ship, behind the captains chair, there is another views screen showing a map of the ship deck by deck, as well as overhead views of the ship, and a hologram console showing a 3D map of the route to the Sol system to Skantos.
The captain walks over to his chair, a crew member notices him .
"Captain on the Bridge!"
All of the crew on the bridge stand and face the captain.
"Everyone ready?" Says the captain
"At ease, man your stations."
The crew resumes work.
The captain sits.
"Helm take us outside the solar system, one quarter impulse."
"Aye sir."
"Prepare for Transwarp Drive."
A few minutes pass, and the Ship passes Pluto.
The helm officer turns her chair around "Sir we have just exited the solar system".
"Full stop."
"Full stop." the Helmsman repeats .
The captain presses a few buttons on the arm of his chair, a whistle noise blow, signaling that he is now transmitting an announcement to the rest of the ship .
"All hands standby Transwarp Drive"
The operations officer, sitting the left of the captain turns around form their console "Transwarp Drive ready captain."
"All Transwarp speeds available at your command."
The captain leans back in his chair.
"Execute."
The Ship slams into warp speed suddenly.
The Helmsman call out.
"Arriving in Skantos in 10 seconds."
"5"
"4"
"3"
"2"
"1"
The ship comes out of warp right above Skantos.
"Warp test successful."
Everyone on the bridge begins cheering and clapping.
The captain goes back on the horn "Warp flight successful."
"Run a full ship diagnostic."
"Record as much data on the status of the ship as you can after the flight."
The ship flies a shuttle to Anor Londo.
The Away team collects artifacts from Anor Londo ruins, as well as investigation what happened to the Theian gods. They also take soil samples from Skantos.
They head back.
DIVIDER
On the Bridge...
"Away team is back on board sir."
"Alright, chart a course back for Theia."
"Aye aye captain."
"Standby trans warp drive"
"Drive read-"
Suddenly the ship shakes vigorously, a few consoles explode on the bridge, some debris falls from the ceiling and sparks fly everywhere.
The bridge is filled with smoke.
"REPORT!" the captain yells.
"WARP DRIVE OVERLOAD!"
"THE WARP NACELLES DREW TOO MUCH POWER!"
In the engineering bay, where the warp reactor is.
The chief engineer is trying to access the damage.
Main Engineering is the warp drive cylinder, and a several story rotunda surrounding it, with several floors. There on consoles on each floor, the Chief is is on the bottom floor. The Warp reactor has another extension going to towards the read of the ship, which is meant to Inject plasma I to the warp nacelles.
The room is filled with smoke.
A few coolant pipes burst, the the reactor is undergoing some sort of thermal runaway.
"EVERYONE TO THE SECOND FLOOR, CUT THE PLASMA FLOW!"
All the crew take the lifts or climb ladder up to the second floor.
The captain is contacting the chief engineer through a bridge console.
"Damage report!"
The chief engineer walks over, over the yelling and chaos of main Engineering, he dawns a respirator.
"Main enigizers out!"
"We suffered a coolant manifold burst!"
"We have cut the plasma flow to the nacelles!""
"We may have to eject the core!"
Another explosion happens, it throws a crew member down into the bottom floor.
Alarms are blaring and the chaos continues as the crew are trying to make hasty repairs.
A man in main engineering calls out "Impulse drive Is out! We are in a free fall towards the planet!"
Back on the bridge.
"Sir! Main impulse drives out! Our orbit is degrading"
"Damnit!"
"Shields?"
"Shield generators are down!"
The Captain calls main engineering again "Dytolov I impulse back online now!"
"Working on it sir!"
The ship fires it's RCS thrusters in an attempt restabilise its orbit.
The ships descent slows.
Suddenly, the Ships auxiliary power kicks in, and the impulse drive comes online, and their orbit stabilizes.
"Send a Distress signal back to command "
"Already done sir."
"They are sending a repair cruiser to us to help us with repairs."
"Alright."
