Stardate: 203343

We found a way to detect the fakes! Chief told Captain, but although he logged the information, he made the decision to continue back to GE0. I'm grateful in a way, the further we can get away from the Storm copy, the better.
 

Stardate: 203342

Engineering has suddenly become like a crime scene. We've all been analysing the information and its more mind blowing than the time travel scenario.  We've discovered it's been copied particle by particle. Chief's gone to inform the Captain.  We're trying to find a way to tell the difference between the original and the fake and how to disable it!
 

Stardate: 203341

Oh that was clever… oh very clever…   The Storm has been COPIED!!  Wow.. How do you prevent THAT? Going to look into a way to stop that happening to us now!

Stardate: 203340

Told Chief about my theory and I must admit, we had a chuckle about the Time Travel scenario.  But then he went quiet and started moving some of the components around again.  I think he’s on to something, but I’m shattered and have excused myself to get some sleep.  We’ve all been working hard and Chief has just said to take sleep when we need it as opposed to having scheduled breaks. It’s working to some extent. Anyway, let’s hope he’s working it out. I can’t believe I am going to bed this early..

Stardate: 203339

Wow. It’s been a tough day.  We’ve all been working on analysing the Storm’s shrapnel and it’s getting mighty confusing down there.  There’s a few ideas about what’s happened to it.  Some say they went through a black hole. Others are saying that they might have been too close to an exploding star. The most popular theory is that they’ve managed to travel back in time.. but.. there are so many paradoxes, and if they had cracked it, then we would have seen time travellers already. My mind is blown just with the thought of it. I mean, they could have travelled through time and arrived just before they travelled through time and crashed into…

 

Hang on, I have an idea.. it’ll just be snubbed as a silly theory, but.. it’s worth a shot…

Stardate: 203338

Yay for the Delta, they've found the log module.  We're still putting together some other bits and pieces that we've teleported over. It just doesn't add up though. Something's not right with some of this gear. We're going to run some analysis on it.
 

Stardate: 203337

Woke up to a "red alert" as we detected the Storm! But as we got closer, we dropped the status to yellow as we found it in pieces! Something hit it hard. Chief has started teleporting parts of it into the cargo bays and we've been organised into teams to piece parts of it together to see if we can work out what happened. Nobody has found the log module yet, which will give us every piece of information right up to the last moment..

Stardate: 203336

Feeling a little unwell today, but Chief was ok about it and told me to take the day off. I went to medical and Doc gave me a few sprays to boost me up but said that "good old fashion rest" is what I needed. It's times like this that you miss the people you hold dear, when you have nothing to keep your thoughts occupied.

Stardate: 203335

We've been sharing shifts with some of the crew of the Delta, which is helping speed up repairs. They have some good crew aboard, but some of them have been bemused with our "adaptations", which made us smile. But then, our ship can go quicker than most when it's operating at full whack. We're still keeping our eyes out for the Storm.
 

Stardate: 203334

We scanned a vessel yesterday, and the GE-Delta arrived on the scene.  It's good to see a friendly ship that doesn't open fire, and I must admit I was just waiting for some attack.  We're all trying to work out what happened to the Storm, but right now, we have repairs to get on with. The Storm is still out there somewhere and could be repairing themselves faster than we are, so we must get ready.  The Delta will likely offer to help.
 

Stardate: 203333

Our team has worked hard. We've managed to repair most of the plasma relays and Gwen said that they've managed to get the nidus dish back online with about half of the scanner power. That's got to be better than nothing. Hanson has managed to get propulsion back, but only to half the normal subsonic speed we could normally achieve. But we could get back to GEO at a reasonable pace, which I think is where we need to be, some parts you just cannot replicate.

Stardate: 203332

We launched Chief’s Escape Pod today at 10:00. It’s been programmed to find a nearby uninhabited planet and soft land there. Looks like we get a new Chief, as Hanson’s doing a good job and got us all motivated to get going after the service. I’m starting to like him, and we’ve organised our team to get the plasma cell’s back up to scratch after the beating we got. Gwen’s leading the team on the scanners and Nidus Dish, which was heavily damaged. Hope we get something soon, as it feels like somebody has a blindfold on us.

Stardate:203331

I've been let out again with an "off the record" caution. I've apologised to O'Hara, but I must admit it was more a sense of duty than from the heart.  A service is being arranged tomorrow and we've decorated his escape pod in respectful colours. Not looking forward to tomorrow at all. Hanson seems ok, doing a good job in a bad situation.
 

Stardate: 203330

I’ve been “sent to my room” to cool off. O’Hara had the audacity to come into engineering and about 6 of us pounced on him. Hanson called security and when the other 5 got off him, I kept going. Stratton came in and sent me here to cool off.  I was glad he didn’t put me in the brig or something, but Hanson called me a few moments ago and said he was going to overlook it because tension was high. But the comment that really hurt was when he said that Chief would have been upset that his team of engineers had lost it so soon. He’s right.

 

I miss Chief. He was a good man.

Stardate: 203329

I don’t know what to say. Engineering has gone deadly silent at the news. Tensions are high and O’Hara is hiding. If he dare step foot in Engineering, I swear..

Stardate: 203328

Not much time to leave an entry today, We're all working double shift to get the ship back into a reasonable state.. That'll be interesting, we can't even do that in space dock!

Stardate: 203327

We've been appointed a "temp" Chief until Chief is ready to return. A Leutenant Commander Hanson is our Chief for a bit, and he's got a hard fight on his hands to get us motivated again. Our subsonic drive was venting gasses that were deemed explosive, and Chief approached it to seal it off just as it reached critical level. O'Hara should have sealed it within 10 seconds of it becoming active and he ran off beause of the attacks of the other ship. I have a serious piece of my mind to give him!

Stardate: 203326

Chief is hurt. Bad. He did something that most of us would have done.. put his life at risk to save the ship and others on it. But now theres a bad feeling down here in engineering because Ensign O'Hara chickened out and Chief stepped in. If I find O'Hara.. I swear..

>Logout after no vocal comment for 30 seconds..

Stardate: 203325

My hat goes off to Lieutenant Ridley. I’ve never seen somebody pilot a ship like he did. Captain ordered a attack pattern and he flew this ship like it a soaring eagle. We’ve…

 

>error unrecognisable signal

 

OH NO!

Stardate: 203324

I want this noted in the official logs that as much as I have trust in our Captain and WILL “take a bullet” for him, I don’t approve of just running and taking a beating. Captain is a peaceful man, but sometimes you just have turn around and defend yourself.

Stardate: 203323

We're not fairing very well. There is nothing this ship has that the GE-Storm doesn't have when it comes to firepower and defences. Every move we've made to protect our ship has been matched by their attack. We're all looking at the Captain for inspiration now.. Come on Capt!

Stardate: 203322

I don't know whats going on but the Storm is firing at us. Something wasn't right and now we're head to head with a ship of equal power. The only thing she doesn't have is our Chief. Maybe he can come up with something.. but we're just on emergency call out at the moment, repairing any damges caused by... well our own fleet!