Jacques Keveloh:
Jack pounds out a quick SOS with the tool and then repeats it, checking the borescope readout and watching Doc's drone feed, looking for signs that the creatures might be responding to his banging.
The borescope is no longer fed into the vehicle bay because the iris valve was shut after the encounter with the Trill.
The view from the drone doesn't detect any reaction to Jack's banging. One more of the small, black and brown half-tubes drifts by the drone. It is about the length of a cigarette, with a slightly larger diameter. It is mostly hollow.
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OOC: the iris valve could be opened just enough for a hose... workshop/ship should have hose and pumps and the launch's power is still available.
Suzain has installed air pumps easily capable of drawing all the atmosphere out of any space on the ship (part of the life support system). However, you suspect they would draw more power than the launch's small power plant would provide.
Gypsy 2 also has air pumps, since the entire cabin has to function as an airlock. A hose would have to be found and rigged from the launch through all the intervening doors. Finding a hose that wouldn't present contamination issues (like a fuel hose) is not a certainty, as the ship's designers may not have anticipated a need to move atmosphere from one space on a ship to a different, distant space without power and without allowing the atmosphere to permeate the intervening spaces.
A third option is if the vehicle bay has an emergency cycling mechanism. Although moving atmosphere from one space to a different, non-contiguous area on a ship may be considered an exotic requirement, the possibility that a powered-down ship may need to use an airlock (to EVA to take a fuel hose or to abandon ship) is not. Thus, it is standard for all airlocks to have an emergency system sufficient to empty the airlock in the absence of power.
Gypsy Moth has such a system in all her personnel airlocks, as well as the two aft airlocks.
Suzain might have such a system in her vehicle bays. If she does, the controls might logically be placed near the ramp door controls, forward starboard in the vehicle bay. Such controls typically have to be operated locally.
This message was last edited by the GM at 05:21, Tue 28 Feb 2012.