Kelly is in Engineering preparing the ship for lift off.
The ship has been on station power for the last two days and
the fusion engines need to be fired back up. This involves
firing a charge from capasitors into the fusor to initiate
the initial fusion reactions needed to bootstrap the
process. Normally, this can be done with power from
Starport services, and that's what Kelly will do now.
However, as Kelly prepares to do this he glances over at a
rack of glaser powercells waiting to be charged. In the
field where a ready power supply isn't available
bootstraping a fusor can be done by putting powercell
cartridges used by the glaser weapons down into the ignition
chambers and firing them off. Back in the CSA Navy he made
it a regular habit of drilling his people in this technique
just in case they needed to coldstart the engines completely
on their own. He wondered if Anspor had ever done this sort
of thing...
As he is thinking about it the comm buzzes, "Kelly this is
Artivits, up on the Bridge, um...have we got a TMA with a
spec num of V730-mp4 in stock back there. I'm recalabrating
the broad band receiver on the PEMS and this TMA is running
hot. It's not flaking yet, but I'd rather replace it now
than have it blow on us upstairs. Could you check the
stores database for me?
Eris
AKU GM
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"Eris Reddoch" using MR/2 ICE #245
http://www.crosswinds.net/~erisr
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