This is why we run simulations and diagnostics, boys. I will try to keep this brief and concise. Basically, Ensign Redding found an anomaly in one of our simulated jumps. Something that had what I wanted to call a minuscule chance of rending the ship completely in half upon completing the spacefold. I did some digging into it, and found that one of our paragravitic toriods fails to maintain a constant spatial dilation when strained above a certain temperature. We're looking at a fluctuation of almost 8.09%. This of course makes the spacefold envelope of the jump too small, and we'd jump maybe only the middle three quarters of the ship upon activation given how the field contraction is exponential. I managed to track down the issue to a faulty structural containment field generator, which has somehow been over-tuned and stressing the drive core this entire time, coupled with a faulty sensor in the unit that was relaying us bad information. I've made arrangements to replace the field generator, but the damage to the paragravitic toriod is too much for a mere patch job at this point. There's damage on the molecular level, and we're going to need a replacement or else we risk rending our ship if we jump and the cooling system is too hot to handle the strain.
I've informed the Captain. Unfortunately we simply don't have parts onboard to replace the toroid with a new one, we'd need to get one. If this ship had stayed in drydock as long as originally scheduled, we wouldn't have these issues and oversights. I am ordering my engineering team to do another full systems diagnostic. I'll have them tear this ship apart and test everything. I really don't want to see another issue like this crop up again. Or else this could be a real short mission.
I am making a special request to the quartermaster to try to get us a few more crates of coffee brought aboard. We will need it.
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