Movin' On Up...

Posted on Sat Jun 23rd, 2018 @ 7:37pm by Commander Maur Weaver
Edited on on Sat Jun 23rd, 2018 @ 7:37pm

0 words; about a 1 minute read

Mission: Future Tense
Location: Utopia Planetia Shipyards, Deimos Station
Timeline: 2285

Lieutenant Weaver didn't even bother looking at the sealed flimsy that had been eased into his hardcopy box. With the Fleet seal in the upper left hand corner, he already knew what it was: his application, interview, and examination for promotion to Lieutenant Commander had been denied.

Again.

Nothing new about that, by this time, Maur had grown used to it and it did nothing to his blood pressure. He refocused his attention to the monitor before him, talking his way through the schematics that lay before him. A unique design, this idea of his along with its successor - a dual warp core powered starship.

The basic model was fairly simple, it could easily be refit into the new series Constitutions as they came off the UP refit lines, given a modification to the pylon connecting the primary and secondary hulls: widening them out a bit and shifting the photon torpedo launchers down and into the secondary hull. That would give enough room fore and aft in that pylon to run a pair of warp cores, one in front of the other.

The grin started as he went back into the math that would allow that ship to fly...truth be told, this was his recreation, a pipe dream. The big problem with any starship was power. You couldn't fly and fight effectively at the same time, not really, not in Raum's mind. You couldn't run at effective warp speeds while in combat operations, and with the new K'tingas...you had to keep a balance of power for the drives and the weapons - hence the need for the second core. One for weapons, one for power.

His other ideas were more radical. He'd caught hold of one of the different ship proposals that had managed to get off the drawing boards during the Transwarp contractor competitions that resulted in the Excelsior. He'd latched onto the most unusual, a simple saucer without a secondary hull, just four warp-drive motors, two up and two down. His drafts of the ship and the dual warp core took the Constellation-class into somethng more fittingly powerful, and that was just the start. Those blueprints were in his files under the header, Hathaway.

And Transwarp.

That was why he wasn't being promoted.

Ever.

He knew it wouldn't work - but his version would. It was so simple that the Engineering Corps wouldn't even look at it.

The mail *dinged* again. Another letter. He reached over and took it, barely scanning the label and tossed wait what the hell was that?

He looked at the label - this one was Fleet. If this was Fleet and his promotion rejection, what was the other?

Maur dug through the trash and crap that had piled up in his solo Martian quarters, coming up with the sealed envelope: it was actually sent from Operational Resources Command. He tore it open: assignment orders.

Lieutenant Weaver was going back to space.

The USS Victory. Oh, hot damn...it. That was Herod's ship.

Of all the ships in all the fleets in all the galaxy, it would be Herod's.

It was still better than being on Kirk's ship.

He began throwing his goods into packing containers, he was movin' on up.

 

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