The Firebird flew silently through hyperspace on its first fold. The initial jump would take them 11.76 minutes.
Sune sat at his bridge station and all the status indicators were nominal. Eiko their Engineer came onto the bridge and sat at the CFS Systems station. Watching on the screen the countdown to their return to normal space. Instead of the normal drop from FTL, the Firebird lurched into normal space. The inertial compensator system struggled to counter the forces, and everyone on the bridge was pushed forward.
Once in normal space, Sune took control of the ship and brought the Firebird out of its tumble and slowed it to a stop. He rotated toward Eiko. "Engineer, report, what the hell just happened to us."
Eiko's fingers were flying across her console even as Sune asked trying to ascertain what had caused their precipitous drop into normal space. "One moment Chusa.... I'm showing that there was a energy spike in the fold capacitor system. It caused the field to spike then collapse uncontrolled." The black haired Neko was out of her seat and heading to the door.
"I will be in Engineering Chusa, its probably a corroded power coupling. Should have us underway in 10-15 minutes Sir." she said and then vanished through the door.
"Chusa, Incoming message from the Eucharis." Rosalba interjected into the bridge. "We are directed to head to Ether to rendezvous with the Eucharis there."
"Thank you Rosalba." He said pulling up the information, the system was not unfamiliar to him. He was on the Eucharis when the Gartagens launched an attack against the NMX there. Uncertain as to the status of the system, he chose to
send a message to the Gartagen Solar Navy.
While waiting for a response, he pulled up the star charts and started the preliminary work of plotting a course to the system. Only 30 light years, relatively short trip.
Amethyst returned to the bridge, "Returning to the bridge Chusa." She said softly as she entered. Sune acknowledged with a simple hand gesture to her station.
"Once Tetsuya-Juni finds and repairs the problem with our capacitor system, we will be jumping to the Ether star system to rendezvous with the Eucharis. Please make the necessary calculations."
"Right away sir." the purple haired neko said as she entered the coordinates into her station.
"Assuming we have full fold capability, transit time to Ether is 35.29 minutes Chusa." she said turning around to look at him with her green eyes.
The intercom beeped at Sune's station he lifted the handset. "Bridge."
"Tetsuya here Chusa, I was right found two of the power couplings fused. Kind of weird though, the cabling looks fine, but these two couplings are slagged. Give me ten minutes and you will have fold capability sir."
"Excellent work Juni. Notify me when you are done so we can get underway." Sune replied.