===== Jeffries tube, Engineering level, SB Kinsi ===== Shane left the sub processing maintanace room some 20 minutes ago. After all the chaos he caused there he was pretty certain that the no station's crew that would seen him there would be too happy about him. Shane had to praise the SF engineers, cause like an all SF instalations ... Kinsi was a maze of jeffries tubes as well. OK, lets say Shane was glad about the fact, cause a jeffires tube entry in the sub processor room gave him the oportunity to flee from that area, but after that 20 minutes of crawling in that tube maze ... he began to think that the SF engineers must have been somewhat under the effects of some addictional stuff when they called the tube an 'easy access'. Pittying his poor knees Shane finally reached a spot where an exit seemed to lead into a large room. Shane would be most happy about some storageroom, but some 'not-important' engineering instalation would be acceptable as well. He noded to himself, reassuring that he was doing the right thing and tapped the button on the wall that sould open the hatch. And well ... it did. Unfortunatelly ... Shane stumbled upon his oen leg and with an effectfull swing fall into the large room. For a second or two he rolled like an apple falling from the tree. After another few seconds, the darkness in front of his eyes started to fade slowly and Shane started to recognize his surrounding. You know Shane ... Shane and his luck in such situations ... and you wont be dissapointed this time eighter. The first things Shane recognized was a blond haired head that wore an unpleasant grin. Shane's look moved on the man's collar and with a quiet sigh he recognized an two pips on a yellow collar. {Jeeeeeeez!} he thought. The security guard turned to an other man in yellow and said with an sarcastic tone: "Look what came down the hatch exactly into our arms ... Is it a mice, is it an wolf ... ? No, its an intel guy!" and started to laugh. His compadre laughed back and looked evily at Shane. "So there we are ... 'Commander'" he stressed, "fresh on the floor like a fish on a plate" he continued and took a grip of Shane and draged him to stand up on his own feets. Shane's head spinned a bit from the sudden movement and for a moment he didnt recognized where he was. "I guess that the Skipper will give us some extra leave for this catch" said the other security guard, "afterall its him who is keen to have all those intel people under chain and lock". The first guard noded obviously glad: "Guess so as well, lets take the guy where does he belong" he said and pusjed Shane raoughly forward. For the time beeing, Shane didnt protest, nor did he tried to escape. One reason was that the two sec guys were armend and Shane wasnt and the other was that he was fascinated with what was going on in the this very room. It was main Engineering of course ... but the fascinating was something else. Well, lets say it was the game most of the engineers were playing. Maybe not the game itself, even if it was a domino game ... a game that was only rarely played novadays, but the funny on the story was what did the engineers used for domino stones. Any guess? No? Weeeeeeell ... the stones were particulary transparent and very colorful ... bright orange, yellow, neon green ... Yup ... the domino Stones were in fast ISOLINEAR CHIPS. Shane looked around and noticed several wall pannels open with appearantly hardly some isolinear chips left inside. Most of teh chips, that were processing may of the base functions, were now on the big table in the centre of the room lied in a domino pattern. The table was surrounded by officers in yellow and appearantly that were engineers ... but noone seemed to be concerned about anything ... Untill ... [Warning] Started the soft computer voice [malfunction in the mater/antimater magnetic separation field. Warp core breach will be generated in 30 minutes. Warning!] Shane gave his two guards a somewhat afraid and puzzled look and none of the engineers seemed to take notice about the warning. The bunch of engineers payed attention only to the domino game ... Shane's two 'bodyguards' were somewhat frozen as well, so Shane took the oportunity to come closer to the table ad scream somewhat histerically: "Hey! Havent you heard the compueter warning? There's an warp core breach to happen" Several of the engineers looked up at the fool that dared to interrupt the very serious game of domino. An elderly man, wearing LtCmdr. pips, maybe the CEO, only waved with his hand: "Cool down boy, no need to shout, we are not deaf." He went on: "Why bother ... you know how it ALWAYS goes ... in the last minute something will be done and the base will be save ... its an old story ... so we still have 29 minutes" Shane froze in astonisment without saying a word. Even his 'pollen affected' logic was powerless against such a 'fool proove' argumentation from the station's CEO. {There's time ...} ===== End of log ===== Cmdr. Shane Guzman XO USS Chimera