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« Reply #30 on: October 13, 2017, 06:26:56 PM »
The nobleman starts looking increasingly frantic as he shouts questions into his remote, clearly at a loss for what to do and expecting his poor dumb droid to provide answers.  A stream of data from the bridge to his remote passes across the screen but it means nothing to him.  As he repeats his question again the remote chirps once and tentatively offers a flickering holo-display showing a running clock of how long its been active, a little under ten minutes.
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« Reply #31 on: October 13, 2017, 06:39:30 PM »
"Here technical data."
Shoves the pad at the tech.

"You said you could help.  What ship is this?  How long have we been in the ice?"

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« Reply #32 on: October 13, 2017, 07:07:32 PM »
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"Here technical data."
Shoves the pad at the tech.

"You said you could help.  What ship is this?  How long have we been in the ice?"

Ernesto will look at the pad and see if any of it makes sense to him.

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« Reply #33 on: October 13, 2017, 07:30:12 PM »
Glancing at the readout you are immediately alarmed at all the red warning indicators on the various boards that you can see.  Beyond that you have a vague impression that the drone has interfaced with the ship's comm system, which should mean access to internal comms, though you can't quite see how to do that through the little remote.  You should be able to get at least the ship's name from the Comm transponder, but again you're a little out of your depth.
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« Reply #34 on: October 14, 2017, 08:31:37 AM »
"Enough of this.  Follow!"

He glide hops (low grav) down the corridor toward the bridge.  [Follow was a command for the trunk]

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« Reply #35 on: October 15, 2017, 04:23:58 PM »
Glances about and follows the man and his floating luggage!

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« Reply #36 on: October 15, 2017, 07:28:07 PM »
The two of you head down the hall to the bridge, passing powerless hatches along the way. You can see the bridge, its own emergency hatch wide open and powered, a typical protocol, and step inside. Its better lit than the hallways, not least because most of the control boards are flashing with angry red lights and indicators. The bridge is surprisingly roomy, with stations for what appears to be a dozen people, though several are obviously 'optional'. There is even a station in roughly the center of the bridge, some sort of lectern, that appears to be a command station, though you have never seen a standing Captain.  

There appear to be some windows, an uncommon design in your experience, though they are currently covered by armored shutters.  There is a small round drone hovering near one control station... comms apparently... and plugged into it.

You can see a large display with what appears to be an iconograph display of the ship, lit up with red panels... a damage control display perhaps?  Though the text is in an unfamiliar script you find you can read it, the indicator demonstrating that this is the E.N.D.S. Frozen Elegy.
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« Reply #37 on: October 15, 2017, 07:45:10 PM »
Cooper begins looking for a way to access the ship's data. Particular looking for some kind of logs and/or history of ship events.

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« Reply #38 on: October 15, 2017, 08:34:54 PM »
On the primary control board, where the Pilot, Astrogator and Sensor Operators could all work, you find a primary access to the Ship's Computer. For a long moment you are confused as to how to use the Interface, consisting as it does of some form of manual input, but you find a single cable, clearly newer than the rest of the controls, that looks very like a typical Avatar I/O jack.  Despite the memories of crude surgery, you can feel the comforting weight of a matching jack on the back of your head.  Almost shaking with hunger for Data-Feed, you plug in.

It is so very small, cramped and stuffy and so terribly empty. Its better than the Avatar-Space you've been stumbling around in, but not by much, and it is haunting, a Data-Sphere with no Data, unconnected to anything.  You can feel your Black-Chip warm and ready, undiscovered by your Judges, but there is nothing to use it on.

After some searching you find the hints of Data, the Archives that used to be, whispered ghosts of past records, but aside from that all you can find are the core systems hardwired into the ship's computer.  Eager you devour what little there is. Damage from weapon's fire, end of fuel. Interruption of services.  Time since last system update...

Velocity?

Curious. You've had some experience with ships before and the numbers scrolling by seem wrong to you. There is enough architecture remaining to crunch the numbers, the computer seems healthy, its merely missing its data-stacks for some reason.

You are travelling at an absurd velocity, not in Jump-Space, but impossibly close to light-speed, and have been for some time. The Ship's Computer informs you, somewhat uncertainly, that it appears to have been doing so without interruption for several Standard Decades, though due to the purely theoretical equations for Relativity it cannot translate that into Sidereal Time.

While you ponder that the Computer's primitive presence draws your attention to the alert it has been desperately broadcasting for several hours. The primary power plant is almost out of fuel, and if it goes out it may be impossible to restart.  Every system that can be shut down has been shut down, including all secondary reactors, life support. Emergency Repair protocols includes waking the crew.

You observe that there is a large supply of fuel in a secondary tank that is currently disconnected from the power plant, being routed to the currently inactive and damaged Jump Drive. It must be manually re-routed.
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« Reply #39 on: October 15, 2017, 08:40:26 PM »
Attempt to explain the fuel issues to the group (all those on the bridge).

Any estimation on how much time we have until the fuel is emptied (if the secondary is not re-routed)?

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« Reply #40 on: October 15, 2017, 09:25:08 PM »
"Corporal Ramirez said he was an engineer.  I hope he can open the valve for the auxiliary fuel supply."  

I go for the astrogation station, I can read that.  Posistion, date?  

"E.N.D.S.?  What kind of a ship is this?  What was your mission?  Where is your crew?"

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« Reply #41 on: October 15, 2017, 10:58:52 PM »
You cannot pull any Library data out of the computer, but you can pull some sensor data that shows you are in an area of space strangely devoid of stars, though you will be passing by a nearby system in perhaps another year at the rate the ship is travelling as you re-enter a more normally populated region of space.

E.N.D.S. appears to stand for Earth Naval Defense Ship.  There is no mission data you can find and for Crew it reveals the presence of four members on Deck 1, including two on the bridge.
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« Reply #42 on: October 16, 2017, 12:59:31 AM »
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"Corporal Ramirez said he was an engineer.  I hope he can open the valve for the auxiliary fuel supply."  

I go for the astrogation station, I can read that.  Posistion, date?  

"E.N.D.S.?  What kind of a ship is this?  What was your mission?  Where is your crew?"

Sadly, my specialties don't include power plants, however, hopefully re-routing fuel is a simple enough task to fall under my general engineering knowledge. I also have mechanical knowledge. So I will start looking into how to get the fuel re-routed and keep that power plant going.

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« Reply #43 on: October 16, 2017, 01:29:16 AM »
To manually reroute the fuel you know you'll have to find Engineering, the display indicates it is on the third deck, on the opposite end of the ship.
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« Reply #44 on: October 16, 2017, 10:33:43 AM »
We have control of internal comms right?

"Fimion," over internal comms ship wide or just in the room he is in if we can tell that.

"Corporal Rameriz and the Drone are on the way down to engineering to manually re route some fuel.  The tech and I will support from the bridge, I don't know what you're good at but we could both use some help. The ship is empty except for us 4."

Take's the remote back from Ramirez, "Ball this is Corporal Ramirez, go with him and accept his voice commands."