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Starfliers · 07-07-2021, 01:03 PM,

A concerned look befalls Scotty as he looks at the yellow bar on the projector. Having the energy output capped at 10% surely isn't optimal. Between having a real shot to put together the perfect Liner and having now to diagnose the same class of liner he wants to operate, everything is looking very interesting for Scotty, despite feeling a little annoyed.

"Alright, lad. Here's what's going to happen."

Scotty uses a nearby keyboard to pull up the same ship model, but with all the internal components and rooms removed. Displayed as a long-ways cross section of the liner.

"I'm going to put together a liner of my own design using this display. Once I'm satisfied with what I have put together, then I'll focus my attention on the power-core problem. It could take me a few minutes, or a couple hours."

Scotty looks at the displays, keyboards and interfaces surrounding the room they are in.

"All these devices I'm not familiar with. Are these standard issue Orbital dashboards? I'm sure I'll figure these out. With your help it shouldn't take too long."

The two men start to get to work. Over the span of the next four hours, Scott and Seabourne build the best version of the Enterprise-Class Liner. Using the notes from Scotty's personal device, and the highlights from Seabourne's speech, they manually add in each modular asset into the Liner one at a time. A question would fire from Scotty, and Seabourne would weirdly, albeit eloquently answer it. Together, they create the new flagship of the Starfliers. One of the first things they did was to remove all weapon mounts. Enough cargo space to carry multiple hyperspacial scans worth of fuel. The polarized plating was doubled to house a much bigger power-core. Direct power couplings were setup to run through the center of the ship, going from the power-core to all the main systems - with two sets of backups in case of power failure. Funnels would replace the port and starboard Orbital walkways, leading from the cargo bays to the survey module fuel injectors. Seabourne's speech taught Scotty that internal passageways are used by the Orbital staff to stay hidden from the public rooms and passageways. Using this, the rooms along these passageways will house small servers to hold the system scans. The bulkheads were also rearranged to give the Starfliers a lounge close by the main deck, somewhere to get some R&R. The manlifts were also thrown in to give the small team easy access to multiple decks every few meters. All the pathways and lifts within this new model could be thought of as a ribcage of the new vessel. The exterior of the vessel was slimmed down too. The decorative bricks on both sides of the ship were removed to make the ship's cruise speed a little faster. All the added weight from the larger power-core, hyperspace hardware, rift-jumping device and stacks of servers would take away from the vessels turning circle. The ship is designed to fly a little faster than a normal cruiser, but in a straight line. Under the engine configuration tab, the only available option was to use the yellow Orbital engine. This wasn't going to do, as Scotty wants something else to make this Liner look like a Starflier vessel. So he just disabled it on the preview. The hull panels on the outside were tinted to a mix of border world light blue and civilian grey.

A solid concept was put together and Scotty puts his hands on his hips while staring at it with starred-eyes. Incomplete in some areas, but very close to a full schematic, Scotty downloads the files to his personal device and turns to Seabourne, who was resetting the work area.

"These files will help us a great deal, lad!"

Incomplete Starflier Vessel Schematic

He kisses his device with a loud "mwah!"

"Thanks to you, I got exactly what I came for! One sexy schematic of a sexy ship! Suppose I should settle down and figure out what's wrong with the real thing, aye?"

The same blueprints get pulled up on the dashboard. This time, all the edits Scotty made were replaced with the layouts and rooms that matched the Orlando.

"Firstly, let's filter between each group of systems. There'll be a discrepancy overlap between at least two of those. If it's to do with power... could be more."

Below the whiteboard, multiple colours of markers lay on a tray. Scotty pulls out a few random ones, all sporting different colours. This was to keep track of all the problem areas. With a press of a few keys, the system displays a handful of blips.

"Okay lad, I'll mark these locations on the whiteboard. At the end we'll see where the biggest overlap is, keeping the power in mind, and then we'll go take a look around those areas."

With each press of a button, Scotty marks every blip with a different colour on the white board according to the filters.

"FILTER // CREW WALKWAYS, ROOMS and QUARTERS."

"FILTER // ENGINEERING, ENGINES and MAINTENANCE AREAS"

"FILTER // POWERCORE, CONDUIT ROUTING and MANAGEMENT"

"FILTER // MISCELLANIOUS and LESSER SYSTEMS"

"Gotchya! I think I got it... not too sure. Lad, look at this."

The two men stand in front of the whiteboard. Dots of every colour cover the cross section of the Enterprise-Class. It's very clear that there's a couple of yellow dots versus the other colours which have dots in the tens and twenties. This seems normal, as the vessel was in the middle of a maintenance check and refit before they came on board, so there are bound to be smaller problems everywhere. Closely examining the dotted whiteboard, they notice that Room 308 and Escape Pod 02 have problems with power. A couple other groups of dots are centralised around those points.

"We have two possible problem areas. Room 308, whatever is in there, we will find out. The other is an escape pod. Which do we want to investigate first?"

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