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--- current_story:the_sword_of_ophiuchus_part_2 [2021/02/28 05:17] – cromwell
+++ current_story:the_sword_of_ophiuchus_part_2 [2021/02/28 06:03] – cromwell
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 //"What's your plan for getting back?"// Lieutenant Anderson asked with ambivalence after hearing Theo's request to take the ship to the Delta Quadrant.  //"We can open the Geodesic fold on this end using the base's verteron array, but if you hadn't noticed, the Republic is an older Galaxy-class baseline model from the 2360s.  She doesn't have the equipment to generate enough verteron particles for establishing another Geodesic fold once you get there.  At least not one big enough to pull a ship this size back through to the Alpha Quadrant.  It'd be a one-way trip."//
-"We don't need a fold big enough to pull the Republic back," Theo explained, continuing his pacing in the center of the bridge.  "Just Yezbeck, John Carter, and myself.  We can have the Republic generate the largest verteron beam it can, and then use one of the shuttles to get back.  They both have transporters, and they can be locked into a diagnostic loop just like the one you used here."
+"We don't need a fold big enough to pull the Republic back," Theo explained, continuing his pacing in the center of the bridge.  "Just Yezbeck, John Carter, and myself.  We can have the Republic generate the largest verteron beam it can, and then use one of the shuttles to get back.  They're old, but they have transporters, and they can be locked into a diagnostic loop just like the one you used here."
 "Let me get this straight," reasoned Blake St. John sitting in the command chair.  "You want to abandon a Galaxy-Class starship in the Delta Quadrant?"
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 "It could take us DAYS to find John," pointed out Theo.  "Maybe even weeks or months if our coordinates are off any.  I don't think there's enough energy in the station's reactor to leave the fold open that long."
-"Correct," Commander St. John added.  "The verteron array will take every drop of energy left in the base's reactor core.  We'll have to drop the base's cloaking field just to generate the one short Geodesic pulse needed to create the fold."
+"Correct," Commander St. John added.  "The verteron array will take every drop of energy left in the base's reactor core.  It takes so much power, I doubt there's enough to keep it open even an hour.  We'll have to drop the base's cloaking field just to generate the one short Geodesic pulse needed to create the fold."
 //"Drop the cloaking field??"// shouted the voice of Petty Officer Clayborne over the comm system from the transporter room.  //"Do we want to even do that?  It was a miracle that no one saw us generate the pulse the first time three years ago!"//
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 "Take Louise with you, just to be on the safe side," ordered the commander.
-//"I'll start prepping some suits,"// the petty officer announced over the comm system. //"Clayborne out."//
+//"I'll start prepping some suits,"// the petty officer announced over the comm system.
-//"You know,"// the lieutenant warned.  //"It'll be a severe power drain on Republic to keep just one of those generators active for any length of time."//
+//"You know,"// Anderson warned from the screen after PO1 Clayborne closed the channel.  //"It'll be a severe power drain on Republic to keep just one of those generators active for any length of time."//
 "We don't need them to run long," St. John replied.  "Just long enough to get us through the Geodesic fold.  In addition to reinforcing Republic, I'd recommend projecting another structural integrity field forward of the ship as it enters the fold."

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