-= USS Chimera =- This andorian fought a real bad headache. He was also drowsy from the antidote but the doctor gave him something to fix both problems. He still rubbed the back of his neck as he made his way to his quarters. He knew, from an engineer that he passed by that Blackburn had not returned on duty, which meant nobody was in charge in engineering. -= A few minutes later =- He stepped out of his quarters, a not so fresh andorian with a fresh, nice smelling uniform. He wanted to sleep, take asonic shower, he wanted to wind down, but apparently it wa not the time. There had been a message waiting for him on his personal console, but he did not read it, time was of the essence. -= Engineering =- He walked in, and saw nothing of what he expected. There was nothing going on. He did not even see anyone. He frowned as he looked around, wondering what was going on. "Who's in charge!?" He questioned the warpcore, hoping his loud voice would attract someone's attention. Engineering could not be empty. It was not meant to be. "I am until an officer came show his face in here." Some voice replied from behind the warpcore. He man stood and wipped his face with the back of his hand. The man's eyes grew wide open, noticing the single pip on Gaalen's collar. "I'm sorry, sir, I did not mean to say that, I thought it was Conners coming back." He said, as an apology which did not do very well. "Where is everyone?" Gaalen asked him, pushing is angry thoughnts at the man, seeing his deplorable state. "They've gone mad, the security staff escorted almost everyone to sickbay, and the cargo bays, apparently." "Has ensign Alshian reported for duty?" The andorian asked thinking he could use all the help he could find. "Not yet sir. I was not expecting a relief, to be honest." The tired man replied. "Well take some time off, I'll take over from here, what where you doing?" "I was just adjusting a power cupling, nothing very important, I just finished anyway." Gaalen nodded and sent the man for some rest. Once the human was out of enginering, Gaalen wondered how he was not affeted at all, He frowned, looking at the main entrance to the department, but held on his questioning for later. "Well, by the look of it, I think I'm in charge." He said out loud. He moved to the CEO's office, which opened automatically for him. He stood, kind of surprised, apparently someone else on the ship hadthought of putting him in charge, it must have been the bridge crew. He checked the messages the CEO had on his request PADD and found the bosses wanted the cloaking device to be verified for first time use. Gaalen acknowledged the request and headed for that exactly. He stopped by the master situation monitor and verified at a glance that nothing flashed red. So far everything seemed good for the ship. He covered the distance to the cloaking device and removed the panel covering the internal circuitry. He scanned the power imput/output, the relays, ODN configuration. Everything seemed fine at first glance, his tricorder not showing anything wrong. "Computer - Run a simulation of the effectiveness of the cloaking device with it's current configuration." He requested, looking at the ceiling, a habit he did not seem able to break. The computer chirped in reply. Gaalen moved to the master system displya table, where he played a game of cards, hours ago. A screen lit up showing the ship disappearing and the reflected light ratio shown. Nil. It repeated again and again, until he terminated the simulation. "Well, finally something that works fine." He told himself, glad he would not need to get dirty to fix that retched thing. "Engineering to Bridge." He said, tapping his combadge. "The cloaking device is in perfect working order. Simulation are 100% acceptable and all manual verification only supports the result of the simulations, we can use it at any time, everything should be fine." He tapped again to cut the comms. Since he had nothing to do, but the only apparent engineer in engineering, he simply sat at the duty officer's console and kept an eye on things, running the usual diagnostics of vital systems, and loooking at the hypnotic blue wave of the warcore. Ens Gaalen Idrani Engineer Officer USS Chimera __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com