<div class="floatright"><strong>Ensign Kroken Liara - Main Engineering </strong><br/>            (http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j77/wulfjaeger/200px-Sito.jpg)</div><br/><em>"Top o the mornin' to ya, Ensign!  Ready for a little stretching of the legs?  Lets pull up the plasma monitoring routines and the field regulators and make sure all is in order."</em>Liara looked up from the console with a bright smile.  "Yes Lieutenant"  She had heard amazing things about Lieutenant McGalleon and was humbled when she heard that he had suggested her appointment aboard the McNair.  She had been given an opportunity in her advanced warp mechanics classes to work with his design for the SDD warp core and had been able to master many of the new drives known irregularities with ease.  Getting the chance to work on the actual working design was incredible.  When he mentioned opening up the warp core's capability she got goose bumps.  Properly handled and maintained the new intermix system and dense dylithium would give them more over all power and faster speeds in less time.<br/><br/>Liara punched up the core system diagram, sliding a finger over the plasma distribution system which lead from the core to the nacells.  The computer monitored the slow rise in drive plasma as the mix from the dilithium chamber spooled up the energy output.  Everything was showing green and within tolerances.  "I'm showing a few anomalies in the distribution system, power ratios aren't balanced."  Tapping a few buttons and doing some mental calculations as she typed, the anomalies disappeared as the drive core power distribution system leveled out.  "We have nominal power distribution now.  We can go to max warp at full power and shouldn't see any issues."<br/><br/><em>=/\= Capt'n, you have a go for warp drive, all systems nominal =/\=</em>Liara grinned brightly at the call, her skin bristled with goosebumps and a slight tingling of excitement deep inside her made her shift her stance, as she felt the energy in the room from the warp core and the excitement of being directly in charge of keeping the SDD propulsion system in check.<br/><br/>