Making Manifolds

Posted on 05 Jun 2012 @ 10:26am by Rachel Hardaway Ph.D. & Anthony Hardaway Ph.D.
Edited on on 05 Jun 2012 @ 10:27am

695 words; about a 3 minute read

Mission: Episode 01 - Project Sienna
Location: Starbase 152 - Project Sienna
Timeline: MD 06 - 1100 hrs

[ON]

Anthony walked into the engineering lab that had been set aside for their project. He walked with quick, energized strides. "We ready?" he asked his wife, donning his lab coat as he walked over to her side. Before them stood a large array of replicated machinery. It was everything they needed to synthesize the materials they could not get on the station and assemble the manifolds. Several technicians were checking everything or standing around and waiting for orders. A good portion of Project Sienna's team was present.

Rachel looked up from the display she was looking over. The process of replicating the parts for the remaining manifold wasn't going to be a simple as she had liked. It wasn't going to be the most complicated process but she needed some easy. "As ready as we are going to be, dear." she replied with a smile.

her smile caused him to smile in return. "Together," he said to her. He looked at the equipment spread out around the room. "Ready initial particle generation sequence. Power levels to maximum." He glanced at one of the technicians. "Inform station command we are ready for reactor power transfer and advise them to shut down non-essential systems." Making things a replicator could not handle took power, power that had to be diverted from the station's reactors.

They watched as the power levels of the synthesis chamber increased. "Tricobalt matrix is remaining stable," one of the team's scientists announced, monitoring the various components of the apparatus they had constructed.

"The matter stream is approaching critical mass," announced another.

Anthony nodded, glancing down at the LCARS display before him. "Begin the sequence."

A bright blue light lit the room as the chamber was flooded with subatomic particles. Then the glow dies down, only to begin flaring up again. Anthony frowned. "What's wrong?"

"There's a fission cascade forming, but containment field at a thousand tetradynes."

The doctor looked towards his wife. "Can you stabilize it?"

"I can try..." Rachel started as she began to adjust the inputs on the main computer input. "I have managed to stop the cascade but I can't quite seem to get the fluctuation to stabilize." She looked up at her husband. "See if you can manipulate the influx matter re- sequencer while I continue adjusting for the matter flow."

Anthony leaned over the console beside his wife and ran his fingers over the controls. "It's touchy..." he muttered, gritting his teeth in concentration. Blowing up half the station would put an abrupt end to their work. "We can't lose this," he declared all of a sudden, "we'll need to initiate the second sequence while stabilizing it."

Rachel simple nodded as she began the sequence. She was able to keep increasing the stability but it wasn't an easy task. "Second phase initiated...we only need it to hold out for a few more minutes." She said when she finally started speaking.

"Only," he snorted, smiling in spite of himself. Despite their danger, he did not seem overly concerned. The same could not be said of the lab technicians. Several tense minutes passed, and a few times it seemed they might lose control. The two head scientists monitored everything carefully until at last everything fell into place and stabilized with a suddenness that was certainly relieving.

"Initiating phase three," Anthony announced. He beamed. "That will do it."

Rachel couldn't stop the smile that crossed her lips as the necessary manifold materialized before them within the stasis field. Her excitement was only slightly eclipsed by her desire to see her drive in action. This was the last component, the last obstacle standing in there way. "Well done, Doctor."

"Well done to you," Anthony replied, allowing himself a moment to enjoy their small success. Then he leaped back to business, turning on the technicians. "All right, get those coils into the manifold mainframe and hook them up. We're not done yet, folks." He picked up a PADD and walked across the room, continuing to hand out instructions.

[OFF]

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Doctor Anthony Hardaway
Project Sienna
played by Chauncey William Remington III

Doctor Rachel Hardaway
Project Sienna
NPC'd by Tarishiana Barel

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