<div class="floatleft">(http://www.eftekasat.net/pmg/pix_edadasastew/3841/Jewel_Staite_-_Glenn_Campbell_Photoshoot_011.jpg)</div><strong>Day 1 - 0930 Hours</strong><br/><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Character name: </strong></td><td>Lt. Commander Caitlin Wade</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Location:</strong> </td><td>Main Engineering</td></tr><tr><td><strong>With:</strong> </td><td>The Captain &amp; Bridge Crew</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Doing:</strong> </td><td>Working</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tagging:</strong> </td><td>Captain O'Conner</td></tr></tbody></table><br/>"Oh I'm quite sure they'll be more than willing to beam out there and place it for us, Captain.  They're such obliging souls, those Admirals."  Caitlin smirked a bit as she checked on the ship's status reports.  As the Captain told her what they were doing, she agreed that while it wasn't terribly fascinating work....it certain was important.  "I certainly hope this Dr. Nuress is good...what with so many people counting on her."<br/><br/>"Undue strain?  Not a all, Captain.  The Phoenix can do Warp 6 all day long and twice on Tuesdays.  Nothing to worry about till we get up into the mid to high 9's.  Even then we'll be all right for a while.  Couple hours at Warp 9....time frames go down from there.  I'd say less than a half hour once you hit 9.8."  It was probably a lot more information that Captain cared to be given just then...but the Lt. Commander was proud of her engines and would put them up against any ship in the fleet.  When she'd arrived on board five months prior, that hadn't been the case.  Whomever had been responsible for the engineering section before her arrival had let the engine nacelles get so far out of balance it was almost a wonder that they were capable of producing a stable warp field.  And as for the Matter/Antimatter Reaction Assembly....well....whomever they were should have been ashamed of themselves.  But she'd put everything right...and when she said right she meant right to her specifications.  The nacelles were balanced within 0.01% of each other and the M/ARA was operating at 99.5% efficiency.  She'd even tweaked the Dilithium Crystal Chamber to get a few more usable months out of the crystals before they could no longer regulate the Matter/Antimatter reaction.<br/><br/>She had a few ideas on how it might be possible to recrystalize Dilithium while it was still inside the reactor.  One of these days she might find some time to work on it.  She has a suspicion that it might be possible to do the it with some form of lower power radiation....maybe theta or gamma.<br/><br/>"Don't worry a bit about the Phoenix, Captain....she'll be ready for whatever, whenever you call."