TSO 2: Reclaiming the Odyssey

Avro works with Sam and Krom to map the crystals in the captain's quarters. It is quickly found that their growth or collection is centered around where the pod was installed and spread along data and power cables and circuits from there. However this processes has slowly begun to reverse, with the crystals slowly returning to an airborne state, leaving cables first and then circuits last.

Finding an easily accessible section of still solid crystal where they can work they set about testing to see if they can halt affect the crystal. It seems that in the solid but spread out state it is much more vulnerable than when airborn or when it was massed together as a high density form, like the artifact. Several means are found to remove the crystal however this seems to more often than not just convert it to its airborne powder/pathogen state. The crystal power/spores are so fine that none of the filters on board can completely remove them but now that Alandra has been able to isolate it the life support sensors at least identify it.

If the captain is returned to the ship and drawn all the spores into his quarters they can be sealed and isolated. Sam figures a few extra sensors installed at all the points where the quarters have access, doors, conduit holes, and access panels, should alert you to any grown outside of the sealed area.

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With the plan in place Sam and Avro begin work on setting up the sensors to track the crystal spores. Krom suits up and helps Alandra maneuver the captain and his pod back to the ship to be placed in his quarters while Stinger continues to monitor the area.

The Pod is returned to the captains sleeping quarters but not hooked up to the power or data net. It only takes minutes for the calibrated life support sensors to note the shift in the crystal spore migration moving once again towards the captains quarters as long as the doors are left open.
Chronometer(Odyssey): 14:30 @ 2236-10-04
Everyone (except Micro/Alandra) let me know what you are/plan on doing and throw in a test roll

Sam can start working on th ehyper drive, with help as needed. As the hyperdrive is required for instantanious interstellar comunications until it is fixed there is little you can do on the interstellar comms and sensors until it is repaired.

The rest of you have enough skill yo attempt repairs on the damaged Docking Bay. The damaged cargo door is too massive to rework. The only way you can access it is to ensure it is porpperly sealed and anchored then cut an hole to intall a smaller door.

Let me know what you are spending your time on and add Test rolls for repairs or other activities. I will post a rough repair timeline later tonight but as i recall I said all remaining work would take multile days.

Hyperdrive repairs will take from 3 to 10 days with a chance of failure ruining the device, or 5-20 days with failure requiring additional time or rare materials.
Repairing the bad Docking bay door will required 2-5 days
Retrofitting the Cargo door will take 3-10 days
Remember you still have 1 working Docking bay and 1 working Cargo door

Sam gets to work fabricating the parts needed to fix the hyperdrive with the help of Avro. Hyperdrives are built in high end facilities and it is usually not recommended to attempt field repairs but at this time you have little choice. Using only the slip drives of the ship would require decades to reach the closest stars and you have no idea what you may find there. Stinger, CZ530, and Krom all start working on repairing the cargo door but are limited as Sam's work takes priority and they often have to wait before being able to fabricate needed components. In the meantime Stinger and CZ530 spend a few hours each day working on recovering as much of the navigation system as possible to try and pinpoint where you are and how to get home. As with most of the rest of the ships records they are scrambled so it is a matter of piecing it back together. Krom spends most of his time manning the bridge after verifying the ships weapons systems are fully operational. He fills his time to collecting what information he can by scanning nearby star systems to add new data points for comparison to Stinger and CZ530's efforts.

Alandra for her part sets up several sensors to monitors the captain and continues researching the crystalline lifeform of the artifact. You are all glad to learn that your assumption was correct and returning the captains and the pod to the ship caused all the spores throughout the ship to become concentrated inside the captains quarters. Alandra informs the others that the crystal seems intent on reconnecting the pod to other nearby systems by sending out thin tendrils. So far this is limited to nearby systems in the captains bedchamber and Alandra is meticulous in her monitoring to ensure the crystal growth does not extend outside the captains quarters.

Over the days you begin filling in blanks in your memories and are all feeling much more whole. You fall into a steady rhythm as the work progresses over the days.
Chronometer(Odyssey): 12:00 @ 2236-10-10