<em>"I think you have something with the bio packs, Liara, you see out this diagnostic while I have myself looked over.  It seems I am overdue for a check up.  Keep the ship together, Ensign, the ship is in good hands, I know it."</em><br/><br/>Watching Dun hobble out of engineering, Liara was a little overwhelmed now, right out of the Academy and already she was in charge of Engineering during a major crisis.<em>Just relax and focus,</em>she thought to herself as she took a deep breath.  Letting the breath soothe her mind she turned to the console.  "Computer, run a level three diagnostic on all bio-neural gel packs interfaced with shield main control systems."  A system display popped up on the main console in front of her showing the status of the diagnostic.  While she was waiting, Liara noticed something in the reflection on the smooth glass.  Leaning in she saw what looked like a lump forming on her face next to her nose. "oh by the prophets, you must be kidding me, I'm not an adolescent anymore."  She stared at the lump for a moment then went back to the diagnostic.<br/><br/>"Diagnostic complete.  primary bio-neural gel packs exhibit a twenty five percent variance in acceptable tolerances."  Liara rolled her eyes at the answer the computer provided, completely unhappy with the vague diagnosis.  "No kidding, but what does that mean?"  The computer chirped for a moment as it computed the question "Unknown reason for variance."  Pressing another few buttons on the console, Liara changed the parameters of the diagnostic by hand, hoping a more direct approach would render a more informative outcome.  "New parameters accepted, variance range includes higher processing speeds which are incompatible with normal system variance thus causing system malfunctions.  Variance also includes much reduced processing speeds which is causing a cascade failure in connected systems."  Liara cocked her head to one side, her eyes slitted slightly trying to decipher the meaning of the diagnostic.  "Computer, how many of the bio-neural gel packs throughout the ships systems are effected?  Show me the locations of all systems effected by failing gel packs."  The computer ran another diagnostic cycle and an image of the McNair appeared on the console with a schematic of the ships bio-neural network.  At least twenty five percent of ships systems which relied on the network on the outer edges of the ship were effected.  =/\= Ensign Kroken to Lieutenant McGalleon, It appears that we have a cascade failure of bio-neural gel packs on the outer shell of the ship that is effecting ships systems.  I'm going to send maintenance crews out to get samples so we can better diagnose what is happening to them.  Ensign to Chief Tirol, I need maintenance crews to head to deck two junction twenty four and pull all of the bio-neural gel packs and return them to Engineering for diagnosis. =/\=