The Start of the First Day

Posted on Sat Mar 1st, 2014 @ 11:05pm by

Mission: New Frontier
Location: Main engineering, various decks
Timeline: Current

Max was among the first set of engineers to get to New Frontier. It was quite a magnificent work of engineering, just considering the sheer size of the station, but Max knew that it was only the tip of the iceberg. Max's first stop was main engineering. As one of the no doubt countless engineers assigned to the station, Max wanted to make sure he got a leg up on the responsibilities of getting to know the station's systems. During his briefing, the representative from Starfleet Command had told the group that the primary task would be to get Starbase 80 back up and running. It would certainly be a daunting task, but considering the average crew compliment on celestial class bases, it would likely be done quickly. Thought to be fair, one's definition of "quickly" most certainly differed from others.

Max went into main engineering and sat down at one of the general consoles. He searched through the listing and found his name and put in his clearance code. The panel lit up and the screen displayed both his daily tasks and his long term tasks for the next several weeks. As part of the energy crew, it was his responsibility to run diagnostics on the station's fusion reactors, two of which were his primary tasks for his first shift. He grabbed the necessary tool kits and proceeded to deck 566, the location of fusion reactor 11.

Max wanted to make a good impression on his first meetings with his commanding officers. He knew that his immediate department head was more than likely present but as only. Junior officer, it was likely he wouldn't be working directly with the Chief Engineer much, barring special assignment. With that said, Max wanted to ensure that he had every possible opportunity to work with his superiors since that was the only way to move up in the proverbial world.

As he had learned at the academy, a standard diagnostic for a fusion reactor took about two and a half hours. Thankfully, set up and execution were not tasks that both required his presence. The initial set up would take only thirty minutes per reactor, so Max planned to set up reactors 12, 14, and 15 along with 11. Once he had finished setting up 15, 11's would be about ready to analyze and that would be that. He anticipated about an hours worth of analysis would be required for each diagnostic report.

All in all, the day would feel pretty pedestrian when it came to true intellectual prowess, but his professors at the academy always said that you had to live every day as if something extraordinary might happen. "Always hope for the best," they said. As if by them now, Max nodded his head in understanding.