Capital Ship Madley.
'Sir, Technicians are reporting several failures on all the level 3 decks. Power is starting to go offline on level 2 as well.'
'Run on minimal power and compensate. Emergency lights online.'
'Sir... they exploded...'
'WHAT ?'
The Commander was shocked... even him knew less about his ship than the whole bridge. Then, the technician put online a video of engineering. It was a sort of computer room. 1 large bookshelf-like structure, holding several electronic devices. A control panel, and some wires/pipes running through the corridor - Or whatever was this place. It didn,t matter. Then, suddently, all the switches of the panel went to off or standby, whichever existed on the said switch. The monitors started darkening and shut down. The valves on the pipes bursted, passing thru the palm of the hand of an engineer passing by. Then, the end of the corridor started to collapse upon it's own weight, and the rest of the corridor quickly followed. The monitor's glass broke, and the camera's one did too. After that, it is suposed that the lenses died under pressure, because the film ended there.
Everyone stood there, frozen in place. On the radar, a big blue light appeared, next to the ship. Slowly, the ship began its course toward it.
'Engineers, deactivate Aux. Panels 235D to 267A on floor 2, reroute the power intake toward floor 4 instead of floor 3, and shut off the gas pipes ongoing toward the bottom of the ship. Order lockdown of all floors beside 2 and 1. Emergency lights only, power level must be minimal. Begin powering up cruise eng-............
Time seemed to stop. The whole bridge was like a disco, all kinds of lights going through the glass applied themselves to the surface present here, and several BIG, WHITE flashes happened.
....-ines.
The Commander began using his neutral net to set waypoint to Gas Miner Naha.
*No known way found* *Failed* *Negative* *Refused* *Error* was all the Commander could get from the computer. Then, everyone stared at the giant window.
'Where are we ? Unknown. The ship's radar is down. Setting course toward the nearest known base.'
/End of post.
Edited by - gparent on 12/27/2004 12:31:58 PM
Edited by - gparent on 12/27/2004 2:53:15 PM