Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

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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Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

> 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?

Kelly keys the comm. "Will do. Give me about 30 minutes, I need to 
crank up the powerplant first." He types in the spec number and queries 
the computer for the part number, then he brings up the system repair 
manual for the PEMS.

OOG: What's a TMA?

OOG: Hello to everyone and thanks for the welcome.

JR/Kelly

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 07:50 PM, JR wrote:

>> 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?
>
> Kelly keys the comm. "Will do. Give me about 30 minutes, I need to
> crank up the powerplant first." He types in the spec number and queries
> the computer for the part number, then he brings up the system repair
> manual for the PEMS.
>
> OOG: What's a TMA?
>

"Totally Made-up Acronym" :-P

--
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Bruce Johnson

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

> > Kelly keys the comm. "Will do. Give me about 30 minutes, I need to
> > crank up the powerplant first." He types in the spec number and
> > queries
> > the computer for the part number, then he brings up the system
> > repair
> > manual for the PEMS.
> >
> > OOG: What's a TMA?
> >
> 
> "Totally Made-up Acronym" :-P

OOG: LOL! Okay, that'll work. :-)

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

On 03/05/03 at 08:50 PM,  JR  said:

>> 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?

>Kelly keys the comm. "Will do. Give me about 30 minutes, I need to 
>crank up the powerplant first." He types in the spec number and
>queries  the computer for the part number, then he brings up the
>system repair  manual for the PEMS.

You don't have a V730-mp4 in stock, but you do have a V728-mp4 TMA. The system repair manual indicates that as an acceptable replacement, although there is a warning that there will be some loss of resolution at long range.

>OOG: What's a TMA?

OOG: Bruce, the card, injected..."Totally Made-up Acronym" :-P...and that is close enough for our purposes.   A TMA is a "transmetal macro assembly", it is a collection of wires, micro vacuum tubes and other components encased in a rather large ceramic block that is used in place of IC's IMTU. TMA's are heavier, larger and take more power than "real-world integrated circuits", but they are less damaged by the fields generated by the gravity technology of MTU. IC's have an extremely short MTBF when in artifical gravity fields, TMA's have a much longer one, so TMA's are normally used where weight isn't an issue. 

Eris
AKU GM
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Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

> You don't have a V730-mp4 in stock, but you do have a V728-mp4 TMA.
> The system repair manual indicates that as an acceptable replacement,
> although there is a warning that there will be some loss of
> resolution at long range.
>

Kelly ensures that the powerplant is running and that ground power is 
disconnected. Then he keys the comm. "Bridge Watch Officer, 
Engineering." (Assuming a response) "There is a small problem with the 
PEMS system."

JR

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

On 03/09/03 at 10:22 PM,  JR  said:

>> You don't have a V730-mp4 in stock, but you do have a V728-mp4 TMA.
>> The system repair manual indicates that as an acceptable replacement,
>> although there is a warning that there will be some loss of
>> resolution at long range.

>Kelly ensures that the powerplant is running and that ground power
>is  disconnected. Then he keys the comm. "Bridge Watch Officer, 
>Engineering." (Assuming a response) "There is a small problem with
>the  PEMS system."

OOC: Ricardo, Shawn, Jez and Mira are all on the Bridge when this call comes in.

Eris
AKU GM
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Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

> >Kelly ensures that the powerplant is running and that ground power
> >is  disconnected. Then he keys the comm. "Bridge Watch Officer,
> >Engineering." (Assuming a response) "There is a small problem with
> >the  PEMS system."

ooc:  give it some midol...

Suz

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

On 03/09/03 at 10:32 PM,  Mira  said:

>> >Kelly ensures that the powerplant is running and that ground power
>> >is  disconnected. Then he keys the comm. "Bridge Watch Officer,
>> >Engineering." (Assuming a response) "There is a small problem with
>> >the  PEMS system."

>ooc:  give it some midol...

ooc: ROFLMAO!! 

Eris
AKU GM
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Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

----- Original Message -----
From: Terry Mixon 
> 
> > >Kelly ensures that the powerplant is running and that ground power
> > >is  disconnected. Then he keys the comm. "Bridge Watch Officer, 
> > >Engineering." (Assuming a response) "There is a small problem with
> > >the  PEMS system."
> 
> Shawn hit his key.
> 
> "Bridge watch, Shawn. Talk to me, Kelly."

Lysia / Jezebel offers up a forced smile, "You just know this is filling me with confidence, I mean secure as I am about piling into a flying brick sitting on top of a fusion reactor the thought of flying blind makes me feel just so much better about this whole thing."

She unbuttons her jacket and sits down in a chair.  "Is space travel always this exciting?"

Lysia Jezebel David

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

--- adunaphell@shaw.ca wrote:

> > Shawn hit his key.
> > 
> > "Bridge watch, Shawn. Talk to me, Kelly."
> 
> Lysia / Jezebel offers up a forced smile, "You just know this is
> filling me with confidence, I mean secure as I am about piling into a
> flying brick sitting on top of a fusion reactor the thought of flying
> blind makes me feel just so much better about this whole thing."
> 
> She unbuttons her jacket and sits down in a chair.  "Is space travel
> always this exciting?"
 
While Ricardo thought, Shawn laughed. "Sure! This exciting and more.
You should have seen when we set off the depresurization alarm and Cory
came running out buck naked and threw himself into a saftey ball. I was
hoping for Mira but..."

Shawn

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Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

----- Original Message -----
From: Terry Mixon 
> 
> > > Shawn hit his key.
> > > 
> > > "Bridge watch, Shawn. Talk to me, Kelly."
> > 
> > Lysia / Jezebel offers up a forced smile, "You just know this is
> > filling me with confidence, I mean secure as I am about piling 
> > into a flying brick sitting on top of a fusion reactor the thought of 
> > flying blind makes me feel just so much better about this whole 
> > thing."She unbuttons her jacket and sits down in a chair.  "Is 
> > space travel always this exciting?"
> 
> While Ricardo thought, Shawn laughed. "Sure! This exciting and more.
> You should have seen when we set off the depresurization alarm and 
> Corycame running out buck naked and threw himself into a saftey 
> ball. I was hoping for Mira but..."

Lysia nods, "Yes I see."

She frowns a little, "Cory is sort of the class clown here isn't he?  I mean assuming I'm remember him right.  The sort of if something can go wrong it will in the most spectacularlly foolish and self depricating way possible fellow?"

Lysia Jezebel David

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

--- adunaphell@shaw.ca wrote:

> > While Ricardo thought, Shawn laughed. "Sure! This exciting and
> > more. You should have seen when we set off the depresurization 
> > alarm and Cory came running out buck naked and threw himself 
> > into a saftey ball. I was hoping for Mira but..."
> 
> Lysia nods, "Yes I see."
> 
> She frowns a little, "Cory is sort of the class clown here isn't he? 
> I mean assuming I'm remember him right.  The sort of if something can
> go wrong it will in the most spectacularlly foolish and self
> depricating way possible fellow?"

"Well, that's him but he really is good at what he does. You are
probably the most exciting of the lot of us. Not a lot of color to us,
on occasion and you seem very exciting. Expect the date invitations to
come flowing right on in."

Shawn grinned.

Shawn

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Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

> "We are on a tight schedule so how much degridation are we talking
> about?"
>
> "Ricardo, you best tap in."

You hear the tapping of keys as Kelly checks his data. "Umm, about 15% 
or so, maybe less. I might be able to reduce that to 10% if I can tweak 
the signal resolver a bit, but the steerable array algorithms are a bit 
witchy at those output levels at times."

JR

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

JR wrote:
>>"We are on a tight schedule so how much degridation are we talking
>>about?"
>>
>>"Ricardo, you best tap in."
> 
> 
> You hear the tapping of keys as Kelly checks his data. "Umm, about 15% 
> or so, maybe less. I might be able to reduce that to 10% if I can tweak 
> the signal resolver a bit, but the steerable array algorithms are a bit 
> witchy at those output levels at times."

Ricardo says "Arvitis can beat that with his eyes closed. We'll go with 
this one, then get the right unit when we go to Pete's on Mark, if he's 
got it. Kelly, while we're in jump, let's go though the parts inventory 
and see what else we've got that's out of spec. We wouldn't want to be 
surprised at a bad time."

Is Arvitis on the bridge right now?


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

Bruce Johnson wrote:
> JR wrote:
> 
>>>"We are on a tight schedule so how much degridation are we talking
>>>about?"
>>>
>>>"Ricardo, you best tap in."
>>
>>
>>You hear the tapping of keys as Kelly checks his data. "Umm, about 15% 
>>or so, maybe less. I might be able to reduce that to 10% if I can tweak 
>>the signal resolver a bit, but the steerable array algorithms are a bit 
>>witchy at those output levels at times."
> 
> 
> Ricardo says "Arvitis can beat that with his eyes closed. We'll go with 
> this one, then get the right unit when we go to Pete's on Mark, if he's 
> got it. Kelly, while we're in jump, let's go though the parts inventory 
> and see what else we've got that's out of spec. We wouldn't want to be 
> surprised at a bad time."
> 
> Is Arvitis on the bridge right now?

No, he was, and he was frizing around with the PEMS console, then 
he left the bridge grumbling something about "...having to go 
scrounge something...", you don't know where he went.

Eris
AKU GM

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

Eris Reddoch wrote:
> Bruce Johnson wrote:

>>Is Arvitis on the bridge right now?
> 
> 
> No, he was, and he was frizing around with the PEMS console, then 
> he left the bridge grumbling something about "...having to go 
> scrounge something...", you don't know where he went.

No but Ricardo can guess. "Kelly, Arvitis should be there by now to 
demand his parts...you and he can work this PEMS issue out. If he gets 
cranky over the substitution, tell him I said so, and we'll get the 
right part back on Mark if we can. I still want to go over that 
inventory, though."

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

> Ricardo says "Arvitis can beat that with his eyes closed. We'll go
> with
> this one, then get the right unit when we go to Pete's on Mark, if
> he's
> got it. Kelly, while we're in jump, let's go though the parts
> inventory
> and see what else we've got that's out of spec. We wouldn't want to 
be
>
> surprised at a bad time."

"I was thinking the same thing about the inventory, actually. I'll get 
the repair done right away."

JR

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

> No but Ricardo can guess. "Kelly, Arvitis should be there by now to
> demand his parts...you and he can work this PEMS issue out. If he 
gets
>
> cranky over the substitution, tell him I said so, and we'll get the
> right part back on Mark if we can. I still want to go over that
> inventory, though."

"Understood." Kelly sounds less than happy, but his tone lightens. 
"I'll be sure to get the inventory done."

JR

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

----- Original Message -----
From: Eris Reddoch 
> > 
> >>>"We are on a tight schedule so how much degridation are we talking
> >>>about?"
> >>>
> >>>"Ricardo, you best tap in."
> >>
> >>
> >>You hear the tapping of keys as Kelly checks his data. "Umm, 
> >>about 15% or so, maybe less. I might be able to reduce that to
> >>10% if I can tweak the signal resolver a bit, but the steerable 
> >>array algorithms are a bit witchy at those output levels at times."
> > 
> > 
> > Ricardo says "Arvitis can beat that with his eyes closed. We'll 
> > go with this one, then get the right unit when we go to Pete's on Mark, 
> > if he's got it. Kelly, while we're in jump, let's go though the parts 
> > inventory and see what else we've got that's out of spec. We wouldn't
> > want to be surprised at a bad time."
> > 
> > Is Arvitis on the bridge right now?
> 
> No, he was, and he was frizing around with the PEMS console, then 
> he left the bridge grumbling something about "...having to go 
> scrounge something...", you don't know where he went.

Right about the time I showed up right?

Lysia Jezebel David

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

adunaphell@shaw.ca wrote:

>>>Is Arvitis on the bridge right now?
>>
>>No, he was, and he was frizing around with the PEMS console, then 
>>he left the bridge grumbling something about "...having to go 
>>scrounge something...", you don't know where he went.
> 
> Right about the time I showed up right?

LOL, yes right about that time. OOG, I can tell you that 
Artiits didn't leave  because Jez showed up on the bridge, 
and I can also say that he didn't head for engineering, but 
if that's what the characters think...right now...then 
that's perfectly okay with me. 

Eris
AKU GM

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

OOG: That's right, ships are female... :-)

JR

On Sunday, March 09, 2003 10:32 PM, Mira [SMTP:mira@websuz.com] wrote:
> > >Kelly ensures that the powerplant is running and that ground power
> > >is  disconnected. Then he keys the comm. "Bridge Watch Officer,
> > >Engineering." (Assuming a response) "There is a small problem with
> > >the  PEMS system."
> 
> ooc:  give it some midol...
> 
> Suz

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

> > >Kelly ensures that the powerplant is running and that ground power
> > >is  disconnected. Then he keys the comm. "Bridge Watch Officer,
> > >Engineering." (Assuming a response) "There is a small problem with
> > >the  PEMS system."
>
> Shawn hit his key.
>
> "Bridge watch, Shawn. Talk to me, Kelly."

"I need to make a repair to the PEMS system that will downgrade its 
long-range performance. Shall I use the component I have, or try to 
find the correct part dirtside?" Kelly mentally kicks himself as the 
possiblility of finding another correct part occurs to him just now.

JR

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

--- JR  wrote:

> > Shawn hit his key.
> >
> > "Bridge watch, Shawn. Talk to me, Kelly."
> 
> "I need to make a repair to the PEMS system that will downgrade its 
> long-range performance. Shall I use the component I have, or try to 
> find the correct part dirtside?" Kelly mentally kicks himself as the 
> possiblility of finding another correct part occurs to him just now.

"We are on a tight schedule so how much degridation are we talking
about?"

"Ricardo, you best tap in."

Shawn

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Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

Terry Mixon wrote:
> --- JR  wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Shawn hit his key.
>>>
>>>"Bridge watch, Shawn. Talk to me, Kelly."
>>
>>"I need to make a repair to the PEMS system that will downgrade its 
>>long-range performance. Shall I use the component I have, or try to 
>>find the correct part dirtside?" Kelly mentally kicks himself as the 
>>possiblility of finding another correct part occurs to him just now.
> 
> 
> "We are on a tight schedule so how much degridation are we talking
> about?"
> 
> "Ricardo, you best tap in."

"I'm listening."

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

Mae Lee: 0997.263.1200 -- Kelly Prepares for Lift

--- Eris Reddoch  wrote:

> >Kelly ensures that the powerplant is running and that ground power
> >is  disconnected. Then he keys the comm. "Bridge Watch Officer, 
> >Engineering." (Assuming a response) "There is a small problem with
> >the  PEMS system."

Shawn hit his key.

"Bridge watch, Shawn. Talk to me, Kelly."

Shawn

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