Editing Christopher Adams Training Days (section)

==== (Starfleet Academy - Resorte Advanced Training Facility, Holodeck 3 - Cadet Christopher Adams - 0910) ====

[Cadet Adams. You destination is on your left. Holodeck 3 is currently active. Would you like to enter?]

"Yes. Please," replied the cadet.

The holodeck doors opened and Cadet Adams came face to face with a Betazoid lieutenant.

"Cadet Christopher Adams, reporting as ordered," stated Chris, offering the PADD to the waiting lieutenant.

Cosico eyed the man suspiciously before taking the PADD from the Cadet. "Good" she simply said before walking back behind her desk and sitting down. She placed the PADD on the desk without looking at it, before gesturing to the chair opposite herself. "Sit" She said quickly and harshly.

Cadet Adams proceeded to the chair that she gestured to while she continued, "Would you like anything to drink, Cadet? And while you ponder on that question, think about this one too. Why are you here? Then give me you answer at the same time."

"No…no, thank you, sir," the cadet responded nervously as he seated himself. "I'm not thirsty. Also, I'm a little nervous. This is after all my last test before I graduate from Starfleet Academy. I've wanted to be in Starfleet all of my life. My father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all served. It's been my whole life. My grandfather served on the USS Melbourne and was killed in the Battle of Wolf 359 when my father was fifteen. After that, my father entered Starfleet just for revenge and was posted to Starfleet Tactical to help create weapons to fight the Borg and where he met my mother. As a child, we traveled around from starbase to starbase until we settled on Earth during my high school years.

"I seemed to have picked up my dad's engineering gene," Adams continued. "I love to take things apart and put them back together. If something's broken I can easily find out what's wrong and fix it. I felt the best way to honor my grandfather was to join Starfleet and continue the Adams legacy."

Cosico nodded and raised an eyebrow with a small amount of concern when the Cadet mentioned the battle of Wolf 359. "A horrible, Battle" She muttered before continuing. "An engineering gene?" She asked outloud, "How curious." She noted what the cadet had said down on the padd he had handed her previously. "So you would say you are with us out of honor? Not because you wish to be here?" She asked quite harshly. "Perhaps you would like to be elsewhere? Just name it Cadet and I will have you there within seconds." She said smiling menacingly.

"No, sir," Cadet Adams replied quickly. "I absolutely want to be here. Starfleet is in my blood. I have dedicated all my studies throughout school just to get here."

Cosico nodded, "I understand" She carefully thought about her next couple lines of speech before saying anything. "Cadet. Since this is the case, I would then assume you do not need me lecturing you about the importance of this exam?" She said quite slowly.
 
"No, sir," Adams replied quickly.
 
Cosico nodded, "Then we shall continue with our test." She stood up and walked across the room to the Holodeck arch and began rummaging through computer files. "Computer, Activate program 8InsEngineeringSim3" She said finding the correct program. Suddenly the holodeck shimmered into a Galaxy class engineering room. "Main engineering" She said as she wandered back towards the cadet. "On a Galaxy class, It's quite an interesting place to be. Don't you think?"
 
Adams gawked at the holodeck simulation. "Yes...quite interesting...uh...sir."

The cadet was startled as klaxons suddenly started blaring and red lights started flashing along the wall. A crewman ran towards Adams screaming, "Sir! Sir! What do we do?"

Cadet Adams glanced down towards the holographic crewman and responded, "Report, crewman!"
 
Cadet Christopher Adams glanced down at the computer readout while an engineering technician screamed over the klaxons sounding off in engineering, "Sir, the plasma conduits on decks 4 through 10 are fried, the antimatter - matter conversion is decaying for some unknown reason and we have several conduits and computers in main engineering which seemingly randomly keep exploding."

"Yes. According to this readout there is a leak in the port coolant tank, which is causing plasma conduits all over the ship to rupture. We need to shutdown the tank and re-route the coolant on the starboard side to compensate for the diminished coolant levels. I'm going to re-route the EPS around the fried circuits on decks 4 through 10. I need you to go over to that panel over there and switch the coolant system over."

Just as Adams finished, the terminal behind the crewman exploded sending him flying towards the nearest wall. He slumped to the ground unconscious.

[Warp Core Breach Imminent. 10 minutes before Warp Core Breach,] came a loud booming voice from the computer.

"Damn," Cadet Adams said under his breath. "I guess I'm going to have to take my chances with the EPS system exploding while I transfer the coolant myself."

Adams left the panel he was working on and ran over to the computer that he pointed to previously.

[Warp Core Breach imminent. 9 minutes before Warp Core Breach,] the computer continued its warning.

Adams fingers flew over the panel shutting down the leaking coolant tank and transferring the needed coolant to the plasma system. After that was done, he started working on stabilizing the matter-antimatter reaction assembly.

He had issued no warning so far, Not evacuated engineering or the likes. Not warned the captain or commanding officer on the bridge what was happening. ~Hmmm,~ Cosico thought to herself ~I wonder how far the count-down has to go before he does something~ She smiled slightly and thought about speeding it up slightly and then decided that would be mean. If she remembered her statistics correctly for a FULL Galaxy class vessel to fully evacuate it would take between 10 - 15 minutes, is the captain wanted the warp core dumped that would take between 4 - 6 minutes depending on how efficient the engineer doing it was.
 
She wasn’t going to offer any help to the Cadet, He had to figure out what needed doing by himself. So far his marks were average. Good engineering skills, Lacking in common sense ~Apparently~. Still, she thought that the Cadet would still manage to revive himself. She hoped.

Cadet Christopher Adams started working on stabilizing the matter-antimatter reaction assembly from the engineering console he was working on. It wasn't going all that well. The system was getting enough coolant now, but there was still something that was weakening the containment field.

[Warp Core Breach imminent. 8 minutes before Warp Core Breach,] the computer continued.

Suddenly the panel to the right of the Cadet exploded, cutting power to the station he was working on. Adams glanced around the engineering deck, seeing Lieutenant Thoma's in the corner observing his every action. Other engineering techs were scrambling around the consoles trying to get a handle on the situation. Adams stopped one of them with a grab of the shoulder.

"Crewman," Adams commanded looking down at the tech. "I need you to go over to that panel and start re-routing power around the damaged conduits on decks four through ten. The power levels to the containment system are low. I will stay here and hand calibrate the containment field."

With a nod of the head, the crewman approached the computer station across from Adams and started tapping the panel.

With a deep sigh Adams came to the realization that he might not be able to stop this and reached down and touched his comm badge.