@ship
Alert: Forward Hull coffee caffeination of 1243 mg/L exceeds nominal.
Forward Hull coffee systems now nominal.
Today’s mess: Universal Protein 14, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Potato!, tomatoes (while supplies last).
Ship time is now 04:00. Now commencing alpha shift.
Alert: System variances detected.
Central Accessway (Section 7) gravity of 1.14 g exceeds nominal.
Pod 5 power grid stability of 79% below nominal.
@soomin, now would be an especially terrible time for maintenance issues to affect a jump.
On it
@ship
Central Accessway (Section 7) gravity of 1.14 g exceeds nominal.
Central Accessway (Section 7) gravity now nominal.
@ship
Pod 5 power grid stability of 79% below nominal.
Pod 5 power grid now nominal.
Attention all crew and passengers: We are back on track to Esmeralda. Our next stop is FSNC-1300. Estimated time of jump is in 11 hours.
@jkap Confirm heading.
FSNC-1300.
Acknowledged.
Initiating rotational thrust.
Initiating counter thrust.
Counter thrust complete. Transit trajectory established.
@jkap Confirm convoy order: Pato de la Suerte, Wandertaube, Tukkasotka, Scheherazade, Jatayu.
Confirmed.
Convoy has confirmed order.
Departure trajectory is clear. Pato de la Suerte is accelerating.
@pgilani Welcome back! So what happened with the Scheherazade jump?
Just an unexpected gravitational distortion. These things happen. We were never in any real danger. Standard missed transit recovery procedures afterwards.
Oh cool! So why are you back on the Wandertaube?
I don’t want to really get into it, Bryce. But let’s just say the Scheherazade crew’s a superstitious lot.
Oh sure, no worries! Just curious. Glad you’re back!
Thank you, Bryce.
Ship time is now 12:00. Now commencing beta shift.
We did not finalize the terms of that bet.
@kenv, could we request your assistance with a contract dispute?
Absolutely not.
@ship
Departure trajectory is clear. Pato de la Suerte is accelerating.
Pato de la Suerte has reached the departure aperture.
@zalmux Confirm orientation and navigation course.
Confirmed.
Acknowledged.
@chang Confirm monitoring status.
yup
Acknowledged.
Attention all crew and passengers: Prepare for acceleration. For your safety, please minimize time spent in accessways and corridors while the ship is accelerating or decelerating.
@ship
Pato de la Suerte has reached the departure aperture.
Pato de la Suerte transit confirmed. We are accelerating.
@ship, we are not aligned with the departure aperture. Adjust bearing 0°/+0.12°.
Acknowledged.
@ship, adjust bearing 0°/-0.22°.
Acknowledged.
@ship, adjust bearing 0°/+0.12°.
Acknowledged.
@zalmux, what’s going on?
@ship’s trajectory adjustments are overcompensating. The variance is thus far nondeterministic. Pending assistance, I assess my ability to successfully align with the aperture at 64.12%.
@ship diagnostic
Acknowledged. Running.
Roll and yaw?
not thruster, +/- both over
So what is it then?
wait
@ship
Acknowledged. Running.
Diagnostic complete. All systems nominal.
damn
@chang, what is your assessment of the situation?
@zalmux can still do math if that’s what you’re asking
The captain is already in the process of confirming our trajectory with the rest of the convoy @xlbo.
Thank you. I appreciate your understanding.
@soomin
damn
cslanet, check aft vcp / ic. I’ll check fwd.
On it.
@ship
Acknowledged.
@ship, adjust bearing 0°/-0.1°. Forward thrusters only.
Acknowledged.
@cslanet
On it.
@cslanet, I can be there in 20 to help.
@ship
Acknowledged.
@ship, adjust bearing 0°/-0.1°. Aft thrusters only.
Acknowledged.
@pgilani
@cslanet, I can be there in 20 to help.
No, I got this, Pierre.
@ship
Acknowledged.
@ship, ventral shift. 20m. All thrusters.
Acknowledged.
@cslanet
No, I got this, Pierre.
Please, Chali. This is a delicate operation and experience matters a great deal here.
she’s fine, not new anymore
Pierre, I appreciate the assistance, but you’re not back on the roster yet. I believe protocol calls for you to keep the channel clear.
So it does. Apologies, captain.
or both, both is bad
That remains a distinctly less likely though non-zero possibility.
@cslanet
Thanks @zalmux. Going to start with the second half of the calibration cycle then.
@zalmux, when do we have to abort? Assume four nines.
The odds of a successful alignment drop significantly if the issue is not resolved by t:L/384.2.1T17:58:15.
Found it! There’s an extra loop in this calibration cycle. I’m going to remove it and rerun.
nice
Give me 10.
Cycle complete.
@ship
Acknowledged.
@ship, adjust bearing 0°/+1.45°.
Acknowledged.
Maneuvers nominal.
Excellent work, everyone.
Nice one, Chali!
Attention all crew and passengers: We’re about an hour from the jump.
@ship
Pato de la Suerte transit confirmed. We are accelerating.
30 minutes from departure aperture.
10 minutes from departure aperture. We are five minutes from the commit point.
I am 99.998% confident that the Pato de la Suerte is clear of the arrival envelope.
@ship Commit.
Acknowledged.
Assuming control.
All hands, we’re jumping in 5.
All hands, stand by for jump.
@zalmux
Assuming control.
We have reached the departure aperture. Transiting.
Resuming control. Dispatching confirmation probe.
Probe dispatched.
@zalmux, smooth sailing from here?
I anticipate no further anomalies related to this transit.
Oddly specific, but I’ll take it.
@jkap
Oddly specific, but I’ll take it.
@soomin, I don’t want that happening again.
Understood.
Yes Chief? Can I help you?
Postmortem. Facilitate.
I’m sorry. You want me to facilitate a postmortem on the jump incident?
yes
Understood. I’ll get right on it.
Ship time is now 20:00. Now commencing gamma shift.
whatever works
Lovely. I think you’ll appreciate the nuances of this approach. Thank you.
@ship
Probe dispatched.
We have exited the arrival envelope. Initiating rotational thrust.
Initiating counter thrust.
Counter thrust complete. Commencing tangent burn.