The Continuing Story of Deep Space 2: Page 36
Lieutenant-colonel Jan was crawling under a bulkhead towards what once was a control panel. That was the wrong one. At the oposite side of the equipementbay there was a strang looking platform. At first it seemed a standard transporter pad, but when Jan had a closer look at the controls, he knew that he had found what Luke had send him for.
"Jan to Luke. I have found the subspace transporter. It seems to be intact and functioning. I suggest we do some tests first."
Luke pulled one of the emergency rations out of the cabinet under his station and put it on the floor one meter in front of him. He explained to Jan how to use the targetting scanners of the subspace transporter and a moment later Jan had locked on to the ration, which dematerialised.
"The ration has arived," reported Jan after twenty two seconds."I will check it's status now.", and after a moment the DS2 XO said with his mouth still full of food, "It doesn't taste bad at all."
"Than something must be very wrong," the captain intervened.
"Sir," said Luke, "I am ready to go."
"Commander, don't you think you are jumping to conclusions ?"
It had been clear that commander Luke wanted to get on 4465-A very badly. Whatever Luke's reasons could be, captain Arthur made it clear that one test was certainly not enough to convince him to jeopardize a crewmember's life. There could not be something more important than that. After consulting with the chief engineer, who was called to ops,
and some more tests, it looked like the subspace transporter really worked. Through Jan's linked tricorder, the design and specifications of the system were downloaded into the DS2 main computer memory. Now they were ready to transport commander Luke. The communications chief was convinced nothing could go wrong. Jan activated the targetting
scanners and a few seconds later Louis and Arthur were alone in DS2 ops.
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"He made it ! Good Heavens ! Twenty two seconds exact." Jan seemed to be very excited., "Welcome aboard relay station 4465-A commander."
"Thank you, colonel," Luke said as if it was just daily routine. "We have several hull breaches here. I suggest to get what we can and leave. Maybe we should split up. I will download the computer files, I know where the main access terminal is. If you don't object of course."
"No problem. I will try to get some more power back on line. Maybe we can save something more than just a few files."
Both officers crawled under the bulkhead and through the open door. In the corridor they went to oposite sides.
Chief engineer Louis was shaking his head. He really tried to figure out why Starfleet had not informed all engineers of the use of subspace transporters. Last thing he had heard was that they were unreliable and even dangerous for the molecule structure of the object which was transported. Now they had found one that worked. After he arrived in engineering, first thing he did was go over the specs of the 4465-A transporter files. It was amazing how simple this
thing worked. And more important were the advantages of the use of this system. They could go practicly anywhere in a very short time. The fourty thousand kilometers where out of the game.
"Captain, this is Louis, I think I can integrated the subspace transporter systems into our own transporter systems."
"I see," replied Arthur, "You may do it, but only with the transporters in the cargo bays. Not the main transporters."
"Aye sir. Only the cargo bays. Understood."
Louis tapped his combadge again.
"Jan Roel ! Wake up ! Work work work."