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Post by Drakfot » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:23 pm

A Electro technician's life - Part XVI.

"Don't ever scare me like that again Drakfot! " Absinthia shouted to Drakfot the
second she came to senses.

Drakfot continued to laugh loudly, it was the funniest thing she had seen for
some time now. All the time spent repairing hatches, fixing the genetubes and so
on had taken its toll on her so that she had almost forgotten to smile now and
then. Even the game on her Portable device had to suffer from less playing since
to many new things kept on happening every minute. It had been some busy times
lately it seemed, but as through a miracle the little practical joke had brought
it back. Drakfot laughed so much that her stomach started to ache so she had to
sit down next to Absinthia.

"I'm haha... sorry about haha that." She excused herself and turned off the
ChimpBot via her Device.

"You scared me quite a lot." Absinthia said and started to rub the circuit board
even harder while staring at it to mark that she was upset.

"Yeah, I did. But you have to admit that it was fun." Drakfot said and smiled
and seconds later Absinthia started smiling too.

"You know, I am already planning my revenge on you." She said and threw over the
circuit board. "There, clean as a whistle."

They sat down for a while and picked a cloth to clean their suits since they
were covered in crud and the slippery fluid. It seemed as the Nimdra cleaner had
some work put up this night.

"Excuse me ladies, I need some samples from you both." A sturdy man said, he was
holding a sort of a container in his right hand. And had a mask over his mouth.

"Whats up with that ?" Absinthia asked.

"I take it it wasn't the water pipes that blew up and hit the ChimpBot." Drakfot
said as she got up and unbuttoned her overall and held out her hand.

The man held another device on her hand and a quick sting later a needle had
grabbed enough to make a test sample. Same did Absinthia.

"You are right lady. Seems as a chem pipe burst but is back in order now. It's
just a security measure don't worry about it." The man said as he placed the two
samples in the container and flipped a switch.

After two minutes the container lit up a green light and the man removed the
samples from it and gave then a thorough look, he shook them little and then
looked again. The fluids in them separated in matter of seconds after being
shaken.

"Well it seems as you two are alright. This should cover anybody in this area
who was close enough when it happened. Time to fill in the report and bring the
samples back to the lab. Let us know if you starts to feel ill or something ok."
He said and walked away placing the samples back in the container.

"Well that was great fun wasn't it." Drakfot said as she placed the circuit
board that Absinthia had cleaned back into the ChimpBot.

"uhuh." Absinthia said and sat down again.

"I think MMT should be here any minute now, will just throw in the replacements
and its all clear to go." Drakfot said as she tightened the last screws for the
board and proceeded to plug in her portable device to do a software check prior
to replacing the damaged parts.

"So, what do you want to do then ?" She asked Absinthia.

"Do what?" She replied.

"Well, you want to be a repairman, electro runner like me, or do admin things
and work with the machines and so on ?" Drakfot explained.

"Well , as I said I am pretty new around here, and I have just met you and well
I don't really know." Absinthia said as she thought about the options that
suddenly was available to her.

"Well there is a way to find out you know, just go out there and try it."
Drakfot said as she stared into the ChimpBot pressing various buttons to test
the circuits and conductors.

"Yeah, well I might just do that.. And you ?" Absinthia said.

"Ive got this thing to get back online and well I sort of have things cut out
for me already. Ive always had an interest for electrical parts and systems, and
well that's what I've been doing lately." Drakfot replied, sat down and stared
into the ChimpBot.

"Well, where should I go to know more about other things ?" Absinthia asked and
looked at Drakfot who still was staring into the ChimpBot.

"Well I guess TAU has most of the information around here. Other then that I
guess you could always look around for some rings and see if they have any
ideas." Drakfot said and pressed another button.

"Yeah, I need to get this cleaned too don't I." Absinthia said.

"You have my NeckLink ID and my Portable Device will work until I get mine
fixed. Go have a look around and get to know the place, its always a good start.
Talk to seedlings and stuff like that." She said.

"How about you, aren't you in a ring ?" Absinthia asked as she had not thought
about rings previously.

"Nah, not my thing sort of. Ive always been a bit on my own working in hatches,
fixing doors, climbing around. I don't know." Drakfot said while tightening a
screw that barely was loose. "I need to stick around here until MMT show up
anyhow. You look around and we'll meet up later."

Absinthia stood up and walked towards the entrance to the garden, just before
she reached it she stopped as she had forgotten from where she had come.

"Take a right" Drakfot said while giving her a thumbs up.

She smiled and walked right and continued along the corridor.

Drakfot sat down and looked at the ChimpBot. She had given it the overlook good
enough for a year by now. Why she had done it she really didn't know there
wasn't usually any time to do that. Perhaps it was circumstances, she didn't
know and did not have time to think about it as her Portable Device buzzed with
a message that the replacements were on their way.
She leaned towards the ChimpBot waiting for them to arrive and soon a tall thin
lady came walking hastily through the entrance towards her holding a package.

After the usual handing over and signing the delivery order Drakfot unpacked the
parts and started to mount them into the ChimpBot. They were a bit sensitive
when it came to the assembly, after each little part was in place a diagnostic
software had to be run to ensure that it was connected properly and that the
hardware and software was operating according to the preset routines.
It took well over an hour to finish up and finally the cover was in place and
the receptor lit up as the ChimpBot started up.

"There you go you trouble maker" Drakfot said to the ChimpBot as she started up
the AI routines and unplugged her Portable Device. The ChimpBot made the initial
testing steps before wandering off.

Drakfot gathered her tools and placed the Portable Device in the belt.
With a sigh she turned and walked towards the entrance.
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Post by Drakfot » Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:25 am

A Electro technician's life - Part XVII.

With the sounds of the ChimpBot moving behind her Drakfot exited the garden and
took a right heading towards the corridor and the hub nearby. For some reason
the hubs always needed a fixing even if many passed them daily and you could
always see at least one technician digging in them. Then again being parts of
the central network be it electrical or fluid transports its quite natural that
they are worn out. And considering the shape the tower already is in its
understandable.

She passed the corridor and gave the garden a glance and noticed that the
ChimpBot hadn't gone far yet, it was on its way to the sharepoint, probably to
check its status and content. Drakfot continued to walk by the windows but just
before she left the garden heading for the actual hub she noticed a hatch being
broken so she stopped a moment and scanned it with her Portable Device and saw
that it was slightly damaged in the control board and the circuits had taken a
toll too. She got them sorted quite quickly with the tools she had on her, but
the pipes had to be left to someone who had the sufficient tools for the job so
she updated the status of the hatch in the error report and escalated it to MMT
section.

She walked down the corridor and just as she received a message on her device
she meet another one hurrying past her. It was probably the technician who had
received the job to mend the piping in the hatch. She did her best to keep out
of his way and didn't bother more with that since she had to check up the
message. There were in fact two messages this time, one from Thosam and the
other was a high priority error report. She opened it and saw that there was a
major leakage in Ringlab from one of the factories. It seems as the laser had
bursted but the backup fuses had failed so it had not turned off as per routine
when an error occurs and it had resulted in the laser cutting through the
machine hitting some pipes behind it with cooling fluid. It was nothing out of
the ordinary, except the cooling fluid was a so called High Temperature Managing
Liquid, in short touch it without proper protection clothing and it would insta
cool the part that it touches.
Suddenly an update message made the Portable Device sound off a beep. It seems
as it had gotten worse too, according to the message the laser was still not
turned off and was still causing damage and proceeded to cause more damage.

"Old circuits I bet" she thought to herself as she took off through the hub and
heading towards the RadLock leading to the canyon which she had to pass through
to get to Ringlab. As usual it took too long for the RadLock to transport her
and as soon as the doors opened she ran out heading for the platforms outside.
Well there she took a right and went down the pathway and continued crossing
another platform and up another pathway. After running by some machines and
sharepoints she found the way leading down to the RadLock that lead to Ringlab.
Once more the wait for the RadLock to open up so she could get to the job. She
ran through some smaller corridors and ended up in a ring shaped plateau where a
giant elevator was in the middle, luckily she did not need to wait for it as the
corridor leading to Ringlab was just a few meters away.

She was met by an unusual sight this time, the area had been sealed off around
the machine because of the danger of both the liquid and the laser. It seemed
like the area was impossible to reach for maintenance unless the liquids were
cleaned away and of course if you had the proper protection clothes for it,
which Drakfot didn't have at the moment.

"We have some people coming to wash off the cooling fluids, but they won't be
here for a while and the laser will make it difficult for them to work there
safely.

Drakfot picked up her Portable Device and skimmed through the blueprints of the
Ringlab, she had got an idea and wanted to make sure it was doable and moments
later after some quick searching she found that it was both possible and doable.

"Is there a safe path to the hatch located two spots down from here?" She asked
the one that seemed to be in control of the blocking.

"Yeah, well if you are careful. Why?" He replied.

"I have an idea about getting that laser to shut off. Excuse me" Drakfot said
and ran off before he could even start protesting about the dangers it would
mean.

It was quite a simple idea actually, the laser had probably caused some sort of
overload, perhaps the fuses had blown up but not loosened properly as they
should. Well time would tell when they would finally get their hands on the
broken equipment. But now she had something else in focus, getting that laser to
stop working. Quite ironic to have a repair tech actually destroy equipment
instead of fixing it. She found the hatch and quickly removed the plate and
connected her Portable Device to the intra connector so she could get the status
of the current hatch. But it was more then that she was able to get from here,
this was one of the hatches which also had a secondary connector to control
different circuits and their currents, their active or inactive states and so
on. What she was after was the variable of current per circuit and the path
guide system. These extra functions were place around in case the auto shutdown
and rerouting function would fail, TAU might not get the error message and
didn't have a reason to shut it down or whatever the reason might be for not
disabling the faulty equipment and rerouting the traffic through working lines.

She connected her device and a few settings later she had redirected the power
from five other hatches into the circuit leading to the one near the broken
machine, a flip of a digital switch on the screen and they started steering
their currents to the same location.
The reaction didn't wait and suddenly there was a loud bang followed by three
smaller ones.
It was the condensers that had been overloaded and exploded which happens when
driving too much power through a line that cannot handle it. This time it was
good that it wasn't able to handle it as the overload had caused the condensers
and circuits on the broken hatch to fail and sustain heavy damage. And within
seconds the laser faded away and finally shut down. The cost had been three
fuses in the other hatches, but that was minor compare to the damage already
caused by the laser and the cooling liquids.

The liquid itself had stopped its flow thanks to they had shut down the valves
for the pipes, but the draining function had failed since the cooling fluid had
caused the opening mechanisms to freeze rendering them unable to open. But it
also had another effect and Drakfot started to feel it now, the cold in the
room, even though it was large, was overwhelming and as she coughed she felt how
her lungs was hurting and the breath felt like it was almost cutting her throat.
It was time to get out of there, and that fast. She took off taking a slightly
longer way but in return she was able to get further away from the fluids. This
was a job for a good cleaning team.

"I told you it was dangerous to do that.." The man said as she got back to them
coughing. It didn't hurt as much as when she was standing nearer it.

"Yeah, well that laser had to be shut down right. And not it is so as soon as
the cleaning team is done here we can have a go at fixing the damage. I guess
that at least 40% of the machine will need replacing. Not to mention the
electrical details. But that is for later,give me a beep when they have cleaned
it up and I'll have a look at it." Drakfot said as she walked away from there.

There was noting she was able to do there for the moment, until it was cleaned
up and replacements had arrived. She walked down a corridor and ended up in
another hub. She was longing to get to her floatbed, and perhaps a cup of that
warm drink before resting. As she entered it she noted that some sparkles was
coming out from behind a panel and she couldn't help herself but to pry it open
and see what was wrong. It was just a socket that had started to malfunction and
it was replaced in a few minutes.

The Portable Device buzzed in her pocket reminding her about the second message
she hadn't read yet. It might be something interesting to read, perhaps an
update to the readings she had copied from him from when he had been down to the
older premises of the Tower.

She opened it and read it.

"Hello Drakfot.

I have made an initial test of the matter that you had found. It was not hard to
locate thanks to the information you added in your message.
From what I have found out about it yet it seems to be some sort of bi
production of some kind. I have yet to figure out all of its constituent but it
is work in progress. I did however, in a moment of luck I guess, find that
during some circumstances it could become a rather effective corrosive, in a way
almost seems to be accelerated.
I will continue my research on it and keep you updated as it progress.

Thosam"

It seemed as she had give him something to work on and that he was fascinated by
it. That is something good, better would be if an antidote for it could be
developed too.

There was a sudden noise of metal cringing and as she turned around the last
thing she saw was a big pipe coming towards her swinging from its holding in the
roof before it turned pitch black...
//Drakfot,
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I am but a crafter of words

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