Post by Lt. Commander Cobus Rok on Jun 3, 2015 10:28:16 GMT -8
For most of engineering, it was business as usual, which was not to be confused with the picture of organized chaos that had developed in the research lab. Cobus had assembled a small team to work with him on the task of reassembling the device that had been collected during their last mission.
Spare parts of all shapes and sizes had been dumped on one side of the room, hopefully providing the raw materials they would need to make this contraption whole again. Whatever had chopped this device up into pieces hadn't done a particularly clean job of it. Most of it fit together well enough conceptually, but there were gaps were large enough to significantly disrupt its function.
Their hard work was paying off. The device was starting to take shape. Instead of tiring hours into their work, an infectious fervor was spreading. They were making progress. The overall picture was still somewhat hazy, but on a whole, it felt like the question was no longer "if" they could piece the device back together, but "when".
Cobus was in the process of repairing what might have been a matter-energy conversion matrix. He wasn't really sure. He'd had to replace most of the connections. They'd used the replicators to approximate the wiring as best they could from scans of undamaged areas. Some of the components were made of a metal alloy that they could approximate, but not quite reproduce. As long as they could keep the transduction and resistance parameters reasonably close, it wouldn't need to be an exact match.
Machines were beautiful in part, because they didn't know what they were. By the time they finished their work here, pieces of replicators, energy relays, and all manner of component flotsam and jetsam would be welded into one, hopefully congruent piece of functional equipment. It reminded him of one of their advanced engineering labs at the academy when they'd been handed a blueprint without explanation, and asked to "build it". Most of his colleagues found the exercise frustrating and impractical, but he'd enjoyed the challenge. That was when they'd started tracking him towards research and design.
Cobus had borrowed a transducer from their stockpile of industrial replicator replacement parts and aligned it with the primary outflow regulator of the conversion matix, carefully passing a laser welder between the foreign technological components until the join was seamless, and two unrelated technologies became one.
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Spare parts of all shapes and sizes had been dumped on one side of the room, hopefully providing the raw materials they would need to make this contraption whole again. Whatever had chopped this device up into pieces hadn't done a particularly clean job of it. Most of it fit together well enough conceptually, but there were gaps were large enough to significantly disrupt its function.
Their hard work was paying off. The device was starting to take shape. Instead of tiring hours into their work, an infectious fervor was spreading. They were making progress. The overall picture was still somewhat hazy, but on a whole, it felt like the question was no longer "if" they could piece the device back together, but "when".
Cobus was in the process of repairing what might have been a matter-energy conversion matrix. He wasn't really sure. He'd had to replace most of the connections. They'd used the replicators to approximate the wiring as best they could from scans of undamaged areas. Some of the components were made of a metal alloy that they could approximate, but not quite reproduce. As long as they could keep the transduction and resistance parameters reasonably close, it wouldn't need to be an exact match.
Machines were beautiful in part, because they didn't know what they were. By the time they finished their work here, pieces of replicators, energy relays, and all manner of component flotsam and jetsam would be welded into one, hopefully congruent piece of functional equipment. It reminded him of one of their advanced engineering labs at the academy when they'd been handed a blueprint without explanation, and asked to "build it". Most of his colleagues found the exercise frustrating and impractical, but he'd enjoyed the challenge. That was when they'd started tracking him towards research and design.
Cobus had borrowed a transducer from their stockpile of industrial replicator replacement parts and aligned it with the primary outflow regulator of the conversion matix, carefully passing a laser welder between the foreign technological components until the join was seamless, and two unrelated technologies became one.
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