Shakedown - Breakdown "
By: Jonathan Wright, Executive Officer, [PC]
Ian Hunter, Commanding Officer, [PC]

Stardate: 58203.02 0200

58203.02 0200 =Bridge=

Commander Wright sat on the bridge. The events of the day had left a sour taste in his mouth. He figured that he would be unable to rest much anyway so he took the graveyard shift.

So far the night was unevent full. There appeared to be no ships following them. They were still under cloak heading back to Qul Tuq.

"Sir, we are losing our cloak." said the ensign at the tactical station. "It just dropped."

Wright was about to call engineering to find out what the problem was when the ship shuddered violently.

"Sir we are losing speed." said the helmsman.

"Bridge to engineering. What is going on down there?"

"We are not sure yet Sir. There appears to be a major break down in the warp systems.

"Get on it. Report back as soon as you know something."

Just them Captain Hunter appeared on the bridge. "Report Number One."

"Engineering is reporting a major breakdown in the warp systems. They are investigating. We have lost speed and our cloak is down."

Hunter went over to the bridge engineering station. He didn't know what ever item on the display, but he could interpret the seriousness of the situation. The matter and anti-matter injectors had automatically shutdown. The containment field had been activated and the ship was running on emergency power.

"Helm, what is our current position?" said Hunter walking toward the center of the bridge.

"3.5 light years from Qul Tuq Sir." came the reply.

After several hours of waiting for a report, the engineer came up to the bridge. Hunter acknowledged his presence with a nod and got up from his chair.

"Lets go in my ready room" said Hunter to Wright.

As they sat down, the engineer spoke. "I'm afraid it isn't good news Sir. There's a fracture in the dylithum articulation matrix. It caused a harmonic resonation which caused some damage to the warp core and the main EPS mainfold. We can't fix it out here."

"We have no warp propulsion?" asked Hunter.

"No, we do," said the engineer, "I think we can muster warp 2 if we modify the containment field to hold things together. That is more than a bit faster than if we were towed back to Qul Tuq by some tractor beam."

Hunter sighed. "How soon til we can get underway?"

"About 48 hours to get the engines back online."

Hunter looked over at Wright. "Ok," he said.

"Very well," said Hunter looking back at the engineer. "coordinate with Ops...Riaan, to get all the help you need. I want to get back underway as soon as we can. "

"Aye Aye" said the engineer.

"That's all... dismissed." said Hunter.