Liara was working hard to push the maintenance schedule as fast as she could considering half of the maintenance crews were out pulling bio-neural gel packs.  Dun was still in the staff meeting but the ship had to continue to function even when he was out of pocket.  Chief Tirol and three crewmen entered the diagnostic lab in the back are of Engineering carrying two boxes full of beaten, bruised and dead gel packs.  "It's not pretty sir."  He said placing the boxes on the floor and throwing a couple of gel packs on the diagnostic table.  "better than half of the gel packs on deck two are effected in some way, so I'm going to bet that at least half the systems on the entire ship are effected in some way."  The stocky maintenance chief stood by diligently.  The Chief spent a moment to look over the Ensign standing before him.  Unaware that she had been effected by the chronitons, he felt it was odd that a girl who looked to be fourteen or fifteen was wearing the uniform of a Starfleet officer who was usually in the early twenties.  He knew that his experience and rank gave him power on the ship but regardless of how young the officer before him looked he knew her decision was the one that would be held accountable in the end.<br/><br/>"Great work Chief.  If you wouldn't mind doing what you can with the maintenance schedule and working around the effected gel packs, I'll see what the rest of us can do about solving this riddle.  If we have any packs that are un-effected still in storage, do what you can to repair primary systems first.  Move packs off of secondary and tertiary systems if you need to in order to bring primary systems back online."<br/><br/>"Aye sir"  The Chief said wearily as he looked at the list of repairs that needed to be handled on the PADD that she had handed him.  he and his crewmen turned towards the door and got to work immediately.  Liara released a heavy sigh.  She didn't realize that she had been holding it in while she handed the chief his orders.  She was feeling the weight of her position on her shoulders, but was assured that the Chief and his maintenance crews would handle the repairs with style.  One thing Liara knew was the value of a good maintenance chief.<br/><br/>Smiling at that thought, Liara punched a number of codes into the flat shiny black console in front of her then, finding a gel pack that seemed to be effected but still active, she placed  the gel pack on the scanner in the middle of the console.  "Computer, run a full scan on this gel pack and compare to known specifications for a standard K-1A Bio Neural Gel Pack."  The computer chirped as a light illuminated the pack from the console.  Once the scan was complete, the results appeared on the display in front of Liara.  Her brow furled for a second as some of the data seemed inaccurate.  "Computer can you identify the variant compound that is present in the gel pack?"  After a moment the light from the scanner blinked off again and the computer responded "There is unidentifiable organic material present in the gel pack.  This terminal is not sensitive enough to provide a detailed analysis."  Liara closed her eyes in frustration.  She could feel the same pent up energy and frustration that she had felt as a child building up inside her.  "Of course not.  The most advanced science vessel in starfleet and they put a level three engineering diagnostic scanner in engineering.  Figures."  Letting out another sigh, one that resounded a high level of teenage frustration, she picked up a number of the gel packs in her arms and headed for the door.  "I'm heading to the science lab...." she turned to the crewman who had been assisting her in monitoring the ships systems.  "If anything comes up call be before you call the Lt McGalleon."  The crewman nodded as she turned to leave through the heavy double doors tapping her comm badge as she exited.<br/><br/>=/\= Ensign Kroken to Lt McGalleon, sorry for disturbing the Captains meeting, but I felt you needed to know this.  We've pulled a large number of Gel Packs from Deck two and have run some diagnostics.  The computer is saying that there is an unidentifiable organic material present in the gel pack but the equipment in Engineering isn't sensitive enough to scan it.  I'm taking a number of the effected packs to the science lab for a closer look.  I will keep you informed.  Kroken out. =/\=