Star Trek: Theurgy

Sighs

Sorry everyone. This week's been really shitty, especially for what emotional sanity I do have left. I will be trying to get back to everyone either later this week or next week. Promise.

For plot planning purposes, do the Theurgy shuttlebays use any kind of mass lifting equipment to move landed shuttles around or would they just fly them? I gotta think there's something for if shuttles breakdown in the way of operations, right?

Where would I be now, I figure there's some breathing room between sickbay and maybe getting lunch somewhere with some of the new pack. Just wondering where I can send my dynamic duo (and pooch) to interact.

"Also, the shield modifications so we can survive in the nebula are ready to go.  Good news is, their power consumption is low enough we can run only one out of four shield emitters and maintain coverage so we can effect repairs, so we can cycle them every few hours and not degrade any of the emitters.  Unfortunately, the new harmonics are leaving our shields completely useless in battle."  Indeed, that had been an engineering issue they had run into when the plan to hide in the Azure Nebula for an extended period had been decided upon; the particularly intense levels of Delta and Thermionic radiation that would interfere with sensors and hide them from outside observation were such that the navigational deflector would not be sufficient to handle them on their own and would have to be supplemented by the shields; however, the harmonics required for an extended stay were incompatible with those that were used in combat and trying to combine them in any way led, in simulations, to a complete collapse of the shield bubble that would leave them completely vulnerable to incoming fire and radiation for at least a good half hour.  Therefore, if they intended to survive in the hostile environment of the nebula without the unusually high levels of radiation starting to break down everything in the ship, technology and crew alike, within a few hours they had to sacrifice their ability to fight in anything but the outermost areas of the nebula... where sensors might pick them up from the outside. 

Update on the Azure Nebula

Hi there everyone! Arista was kind enough to set up our wiki database with a page for the Azure Nebula, and I have now added some info that slipped through my fingers earlier:

Azure Nebula

Note the new Radiation section, and here is a quote from CanadianVet's latest post in Focal Point:

Quote

"Also, the shield modifications so we can survive in the nebula are ready to go.  Good news is, their power consumption is low enough we can run only one out of four shield emitters and maintain coverage so we can effect repairs, so we can cycle them every few hours and not degrade any of the emitters.  Unfortunately, the new harmonics are leaving our shields completely useless in battle."  Indeed, that had been an engineering issue they had run into when the plan to hide in the Azure Nebula for an extended period had been decided upon; the particularly intense levels of Delta and Thermionic radiation that would interfere with sensors and hide them from outside observation were such that the navigational deflector would not be sufficient to handle them on their own and would have to be supplemented by the shields; however, the harmonics required for an extended stay were incompatible with those that were used in combat and trying to combine them in any way led, in simulations, to a complete collapse of the shield bubble that would leave them completely vulnerable to incoming fire and radiation for at least a good half hour.  Therefore, if they intended to survive in the hostile environment of the nebula without the unusually high levels of radiation starting to break down everything in the ship, technology and crew alike, within a few hours they had to sacrifice their ability to fight in anything but the outermost areas of the nebula... where sensors might pick them up from the outside. 

I have also updated the section in Nebula Entry where Ives described the Azure Nebula, mentioning the radiation.

To be clear, the fighters and shuttles can also utlise this kind of shield harmonics, and it is important that Tactical CONN set up patrol routes during the repairs, since long range sensors are pretty much useless. Only diminished short range sensors work well enough to glean anything in the radiation field. Just remember that the pilots will have to navigate through clusters of combustive sirillium gas pockets too!

Piece of cake, right?

Best,

Auctor Lucan

I'm ready to start "To Absent Friends", is it a prologue for the header or a Chapter itself? I suspect it's the former, but don't want to muddle things up per the master plan.

"Give the word, Sir." -- Malcolm Reed, ENT: Countdown.