RP: YSS Eucharis [Mission 6] A Closer Inspection

As the simulated battle ended, Nika too breath a sigh of relief as she slumped back into her seat, reading up on the end battle reports. Those attack crafts were annoying to the point that she almost gave up on taking aims.

Hamada mentally sorted away the various messages that would have to be sent out over the intercom into the back of her mind before starting on them.

To the Taisa, she answered: "Endoh-hei is currently stationed in the mainspace. Standby a moment, I'll double-check."

At this point, Hamada-Taii settled back into her chair and reconnected with the ship systems. It allowed her to run a great many more programs, a lot faster.

Mentally, she sent to Jalen-Hei: 'Bridge access passageway. Casualty is Yamamoto-Heisho.' That was the first thing that had to go out. She wondered, briefly, if she had forgotten to include a location with the casualty report. Probably.

At the same time, she brought up the visual feed and audio record from the engineering mainspace. After skipping through several frames of uninteresting feedback, she redirected the whole of engineering feedback to her own console, for inspection. Mentally, she remarked to herself, some of these Hei were green as grass. The video feed showed a couple of engineers staring at a screen. The audio revealed that only one of them was actually paying attention to it. She finally connected with the intercom systems in the area.

'Engineering, bridge. Takeda-hei, lay to portside engine array to conduct investigation and repair. Report when finished.'

"Taisa-san, the port engine is now being investigated."

A few errant thoughts later and she had the readouts and analog inputs from all bridge systems drawn up and ready to sort through. There were a few flaws here, too, but excusable ones. Ships tended to police themselves.

Hamada sighed. She would sort it out later, during the debriefing.

Sune turned to Konoka "The patient is in the bridge access passageway. It is Yamamoto-Heisho. Since we do not have any other injuries, we can go together. After you." He said motioning to the door.

The sudden transmission from the XO startled Junko, focused as she was on watching Endoh for a response. But the orders were unambiguous. “Aye aye, ma’am,” she replied over the intercom. Turning back briefly to her screens, she double-checked the self-regulatory protocols to make sure the system could automatically adjust. Satisfied with her station, she glanced back over at Endoh for a second before shaking her head and heading to the damage control station near the entrance. She slid opening the paneling, and started grabbing items, starting by quickly stripping out of her engineering jumpsuit and pulling on an AMES. The suit sealed up, she swung a portable repair kit pack over her shoulder and grabbed a CASTER device before jogging over to the portside ladder.

Climbing up to the Deck 4 catwalks around engineering, Junko slipped open the maintenance conduit hatch that would take her around the port side of the ship. The conduits were a tight fit, especially with the equipment she was dragging, but it didn’t take long to reach the midway access to the port pylon maintenance conduit. Squeezing through that hatch, it only took a little bit more crawling to reach the engine. She quickly pulled up the paneling in the conduit to reveal a small space surrounding the engine she could fit into. Pulling the laptop out of the pack and hooking it up to a diagnostic port, she quickly analyzed the failures, represented on her screen and with volumetric projections simulating damage to the engine itself. Sighing, she set down the laptop and grabbed the rest of the repair pack, pulling it behind her as she wedged herself into the small space. With barely any room to move, Junko began “fixing” the volumetric damage.

Fortunately, the computer had decided the simulated hits had down only light damage, and it took her only a few minutes to pull blown buses and re-route some damage power and control arrays before all of the evident “damage” was taken care of. Pulling herself back up into the conduit, she checked the laptop, running the engine through a full diagnostic test. Nodding happily as the report came back as 100 percent ready, she resealed the paneling and leaned back. “Bridge, this is Takeda. Portside engine diagnostic now shows full functionality. The engine is ready to respond to helm input.”

"Portside engine has full functionality, bridge, aye."

Hamada said it out loud. The Taisa needed to hear that the chain of command was working. It was a definately positive thing, and Hamada-Taii felt that the crew needed slack, this time. It had been an incredibly short battle, but she already saw several flaws in the system that she wanted to work out. Likely, even without a debriefing, they would disappear in the second run. Drills existed so people could fuck up.

Swiveling her chair inward, Hamada opened her eyes and regarded the Taisa calmly, her hands in her lap.

"Taisa-san, Would you like to debrief them from here?"

Taisa Hanako nodded, closing her SPINE connection and getting up from her seat so she could stand. Picking up her phone, she summoned the engineering staff. "All technicians and bridge crew to the wardroom."

Since someone had unfortunately woken up Blackberry from her sleep, Hanako opted to leave the sleepy neko in charge for the duration of the debriefing, while the bridge crew shuffled over to the wardroom.

Hanako began once the needed personnel had arrived.

"The objectives of this training exercise was to get a feel of everyone's level of performance in a starship combat situation, not as a test but merely to establish a starting point to build upon. In preparation First Officer Hamada briefly briefed the bridge and engineering crew while the senior medic should have briefed the other. The medics may still be training so we will not cover them yet."

"We accomplished the mission fairly easily - these were very deadly targets with equal defenses to us but we know how to fight them and they are not as well armed as we are. However, we were close to being destroyed. Another round of fire and we would have been done."

"Let us first go over things that we did well," Hanako said, opening the floor to discussion.

Ramiro relaxed a bit once the simulation was over. Even though it was just a simulation he was getting really into it and had the adrenaline pumping. Once he heard the Taisa call the bridge staff into the wardroom his first thought was that they had done something wrong so he quickly stood up and followed her into the wardroom.

Once inside he sat down and listened to the Taisa. He speech at least reassured him that he and Nika hadn't done something too terribly wrong. As he listened to the Taisa he noted that he would have to be quicker with putting up the defenses and making sure they were all up so that way the ship wouldn't take as much damage next time.

In the interrum between being ordered to report and actually reporting, Hamada somehow managed to procure herself a cup of relatively warm tea. She sat and sipped at it while the Taisa spoke. The vague hangover of the morning had gradually faded away, and now that it was later in the day it was practically gone and over with. All she really needed now was a solid meal. The tea would have to do, though. It wasn't half bad.

She had taken the chair closest to the Taisa's right, and had listened to her without comment, even though she had several suggestions to make. Half of her was curious to hear what the crew themselves thought of the simulation, so she decided to remain quiet for a while. There were people here who would have good input, and who would have seen the flaws in the system first-hand. She had glanced over the action reports. Hamada knew what they should know, and wanted to know if they also knew it.

On whim, she searched a few people out from the group. Takeda and Himeya in particular received a share of the Taii's appraising and decidedly grey eyes. After a cursory glance over the rest, she took another sip of her tea and let the silence hang.

Nika disconnected her SPINE interface as well and promptly followed the rest to the wardroom for debriefing. So far she felt that she had done most of the standard procedures as taught....

Junko fidgeted a little, wiping some lubricant off her face onto the sleeve of her AMES; she was still in the suit, with the CASTER dispenser and repair kit pack at her side. Once again, she was at war internally: part of her wanted to point out the failures of others, part wanted to be a peace-maker, and another just wanted to stay silent and unnoticed in the background. After catching the XO watching her for a moment, she decided to speak, a nice neutral question to mediate between her conflicting impulses. “Ma’am, how optimistic or pessimistic are the computer’s predictions during the simulations?” she said, looking at the Taisa. “I mean, my displays were mainly showing Auxiliary systems so I can’t speak much to the damage assigned to the main gun, but the simulated damage to the portside engine was relatively light. In other words, whims of fate aside, should we expect real SMX ships to be more or less capable in actual combat?”

Konoka, hand over her mouth, snapped to attention, and sped out the door. Ugh...if this had been more than a simulation, she may have just shaved a couple of wasted, wigged-out minutes off the life of her favorite fellow crewman, and her best friend at that! Eeel's eyes! How stupid of her! However, knowing it was Hotaru, even as a simulation, gave her a renewed sense of determination, and a sense of urgency. She sped up. Thinking, she wasn't sure of the seriousness of the 'burn'.

She sped faster. Her calm face was still there, but, now a little more than halfway there, she looked back for Sune. Well, she'd still rather do it herself and help someone than wait and waste more time not helping. Finally, she was there. She pulled out her kit.

Wasting no time, she said, "If you are able, could you please explain the severity of your injury? Where are you hurt? How were you injured?"

"Fish." She was wasting more time. She rifled through her kit, looking for diagnostic aids. By the way: Where the heck were Sune and all his brilliant ideas, which she needed right now?

"Sorry for being so slow, but I'm here...Geh, what type of burn is it?"

To Junko, Hanako answered: "Our simulations are usually pretty accurate. The Star Army Research Administration has captured SMX ships and technology to test and surplus Star Army ships to test them on. That said, I did feel that the damage was surprisingly light. Some might call it luck. We also fought with even amounts of ships on each side. In my experience the Mishhu appreciate very much the power of overwhelming numerical superiority. We need to keep training because it could be much more difficult in reality."

After a brief pause to let it sink in, Hanako reminded her, "Let us focus on the debriefing. I would like at least three things that we did well."

Sune followed behind Konoka after grabbing a back board. After all if the simulated patient was not ambulatory, they would need a way to transport the patient back to medical. He navigated the corridors as best as he could using his limited antigrav capability. Exactly how does she expect to transport the injured person? he thought.

He caught up to her in the bridge access passageway. He paused for a second as she started questioning the 'victim' what kind of injury she had. Perhaps for our next simulation I should speak with the Taisa about creating injuries for the patients to make it more realistic. The Valkyrja could make holographic ones, and using the fabrication area they could make things that could be used by the Yamataian crew members. he thought. "Miyazawa-Hei how is Yamamoto-Heisho?" Pulling out his own PMS and seeing what the computer would report as the injury.

"Taisa, with your permission..." Nika cleared her throat as she went through the happenings during the simulation, "As you explained earlier, the Mishhu favour overwhelming numerical superiority which I cannot deny, considering their gunships can contain so much attack crafts..." The neko shook her head, "It was fortunate that the Eucharis was beefed up to counter their attack crafts as I feel that a normal starship might not be able to handle at all unless it kept a distance as suggested by Hamada-Taii."

"Even with my limited abilities, Charisma had aided in providing me highly accurate calculations for handling those attack crafts. That I'm thankful."

"That is an excellent observation," Hanako said. "The new armaments of the Eucharis worked well; although we ended the simulation before the AA guns could be used, the secondary turrets proved their worth showing how we could destroy enemy ships by taking out their shields with the main cannons, and then slamming them with our secondary weapons...an effective strategy which could also be adapted to disabling ships for capture."

The Taisa smiled at Nika. "As a reward for being the first to speak up, I am giving you a 250 KS bonus to your paycheck this week. Now, from other people, I would like two more things we did well and should sustain."

Junko looked about a bit nervously. In honesty, she really couldn’t think of anything positive to say about what she had observed; granted, she hadn’t seen what had happened on the bridge. She glanced over at Endoh, wondering how to present her overwhelmingly negative opinions in a more constructive way. The Taisa’s confirmation of her suspicions about the simulation hadn’t helped: that they would likely be far outnumbered in the future and that they had merely been lucky in the damage they received? Junko couldn’t help but feel that they might be in a bad way should they ever actually encounter the SMX in actual combat.

She grimaced briefly, berating herself for the “bad attitude” she had, exemplified by fixating on the failures. Drawing in a deep breath, she looked away from Endoh and made eye contact with the Taisa. “Ma’am, I was not in a position to view the bridge, but from my perspective, the redundancy of responsibilities has been effective. In this case, I’m thinking of Hamada-taii calling down for damage control despite… inefficiencies in damage reporting from engineering. Obviously someone on the bridge was keeping an eye on things, so when, er, we dropped the ball it wasn’t catastrophic.”

Hanako added the remark to the holographic display now floating by her side.

AAR Display said:

Objectives:

1. Defeat simulated enemy squadron. (ACCOMPLISHED)

Sustains:

1. Effective weapons loadout
2. Crew redundancy / overview from bridge
3.

Improves:

1.
2.
3.

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"We need one more sustain."

Hamada crossed her legs beneath the table, taking a relaxed posture. This would take a while, if they were to leave the crew to guessing at things like this. She looked down at her tea. Some people could read the future in tea leaves, or so the legend went.

"All vital stations reported," she offered, still inspecting her tea, "So that means everyone is at least on the same page during combat. We are communicating well."

Out of the corner of her eye, she picked out the two who had spoken. Mentally, she chalked up a couple more marks for her skill at reading people. Moving her tea slightly to check the bottom of the cup, Hamada smiled to herself. Precognition was a hoax. Fortune tellers read personalities, not leaves.

Sune looked medical scanner, Simulated damage to the nerves and muscles in the left arm. No damage to cardiovascular system. "Miyazawa-Hei, We need to transport the patient to the medbay so we can treat her for shock. We can then treat her burns and let her body regenerate."

He positioned the back board along side Hotaru and with Konoka's assistance put her on it. After securing her to the board, the two of them transported Hotaru to the medbay. After putting her onto one the examination beds, and removing the straps Sune let Konoka take care of treating the patient for shock.

Once the patient was treated he walked over and picked up the handset. He punched in the first officer's code. "Jalen-Hei reporting the patient has been transported safely to medical and treated. Concluding simulation."

"Plentiful and good communication," Hanako interpreted, adding it to the holoscreen. "I agree. Communication is vital, whether it is by ship phone or mental text messaging. Certainly that is crucial to sustain."

The Taisa then opened the floor to suggestions on things to improve. "What are some areas we could have done better?"