Marotek, Chief engineer USS Skytoucher.

Chief Engineer reporting ok.

"Engineering here sir, the blasts caused minor damage but the warp core is holding"

there are hull breaches on decks 10,11,12,13, and 2, forcefields are in position, shields are steady at 67%

Sir, I will go to engineering and double check on the systems there.

*he leaves for engineering having sat on the bridge through the whole hostage situation*

*several minutes later he reached engineering and signalled back*

=^= Lt. Commander Marotek here sir, all systems check out fine sir, although there is a small variance in the power output of the warp engines =^=

=^= Engineering here =^=

it won't be easy, 'd say a couple of hours minimum

=^= Out=^=

=^= Engineering here, everything looks to be ok=^=

Engineer's report:

When we were first hit our hull sustained minor damage but as we were continously hit with consecutive torpedoes the hull was ruptured enough to cause the emergency forcefield to automatically engage. Several sections of the ship will need to be refitted to enable those areas to be used again.

The ship's shield matrix has shut down and is offline.
We are lucky that our damage wasn't more severe because the warp core is now currently offline as well. The long continous use must have burned out the warp initializers.

There are multiple scorch marks made by torpedo strikes. Those Loxians only caused minimle damage but it was enough to almost disable all our systems.

=/\= This is Chief Engineer Marotek letting you know that everything is set and ready for departure =/\=

Engineering reports ready sir.

*Marotek was racing his way to the bridge realizing that he was called for away team duty*

*He knew that this was a direct order and that if he disobeyed it he would suffer with a court martial*

*He walked onto the bridge*

Commander, I wish to be on the away team, I know I am late now, but I would appreciate it if I could join them.

*Thinks to himself* Today is a good day to die!

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*after the captain told him to go on a tune up mission he returned *

captain, I have boosted the sensor range. all affected systems should now be able to detect cloaked ships. although I did have to reroute energy from life support.

Lieutenant Omak, if you tune to this frequency the sensors can maximize their full potential.
*hands him a padd containing the information about the repairs*

I could configure the deflector dish to release a concentrated blast to remove larger objects but the shield grid will have to be upgraded if we hope to survive every hit.

Name: Marotek
Rank: Lt. Commander
Position: Chief Engineer Skytoucher

OFF: as you can see I am here, sir.

repairs took 1 hour 45 minutes

Repairs are finished engines are back online

Captain, we got a large plasma coolant leak in the engine room, warp engines need to be shut down immediately while we repair them, it will take approximately 2 hours to repair.