**Action** "parallels pt1"

**Action**
 
After the brief stay at the Vega 22 space station, the Blue Dwarf set off on its mission to find the Red Dwarf once again. The huge mining ship was escorted out of Military space and continued on its way.
 
*******In the Parotts Bar 2000*****
 
The barkeeper Owen Numan mercilessly flicked through 30 TV channels of sport to find the best one, Martian bloodsports.
 
Giant hamster Whitewolf sat at a far table cramming giant GM Peanuts into his cheeks to save for later when Zack Jarvis walked in.
Whitewolf called to him and accidently spat out a peanut which knocked Numan out cold.
Jarvis sat down at Whitewolfs table and the rodent excitedly showed him the plans he was making.
Zack turned the paper upside down, but still didn't recognise it as anything comprehensible.
 
"What is it?" he asked the constantly fidgetting hamster.
"Its a plan for my new bed," said whitewolf. "A scale-model, but its not finished yet."
Whitewolf tore the paper into small strips of paper. "There now its finished!"
 
"You're wierd" said Zack.
 
*****commander's office******
 
Engineers Jason Smegg and Steev Mackenzyyyyyyy walked into the office. Holding a small device of some kind, it looked pretty complex, but also like a cheap prop for a 60's TV show.
 
"What's that?!" asked Niples.
"A dimensional portal jump point creator" smiled Smegg smuggly.
"What's it for?" asked Seymour.
 
"For creating jump points (or portals) between dimensions. Its simple really!" said Steev.
Niples was definately in a bad mood today, the Captain's rat Bobo had already chewed 12 of his pencils, and also his 'I've been to Vega 22 Top secret station' T-shirt.
 
"Is it going to help us in our mission to find the Red Dwarf?" Asked the bored Niples, rubbing his eyes and the bridge of his nose in annoyance.
"Erm..... no."
 
Niples pressed a button on his desk and went onto doing the captains paperwork.
 
******Captains office*******
 
Outside the captains office, Smegg whispered to Steev. "This time tell him we can use it to find new technology in other dimensions to help us track down the Red Dwarf."
"Ok" said Steev and they walked into his office.
 
Cannon stopped playing 'minature crazy-golf' with bobo and looked at the two engineers.
"What's that"

"A dimensional portal jump point creator" smiled Steev smuggly. "It can help us....."
 
The captain beamed. "Can we try it?!"
 
Steev and Smegg looked at each other. "We'll install it right away sir". they said and quickly exited the room.
 
*****Drive room*****
 
Nik Florentyn piloted the ship as Kieran Loes hadn't turned up for duty in a few weeks. He'd been practising what to do if the ship entered a combat situation, after a few days of practise and deep thought, the only solution he'd come up with was to do nothing and let the ship carry on at the same speed as it would take at the least a few hours to slow down, turn around and speed up again.
 
Kayn Bestrom stared hard at the sensor screen, still not seeing anything reasonably exciting.
 
James Johnson turned to Kayn with a childish smile on his face. "Do you want to have some fun?" he asked.
Kayn was quick to agree and they used the communication station to send coded messages to the security office saying rude things.
James and Kayn giggled to themselves and pretended to get back to work when the Captain entered the drive room, dressed in a clean and freshly ironed uniform. He actually looked competent for once.
 
*****Scurity office*****
 
Security Ensign Drusilla Belladonna sat in Harris' office while he was doing his standard security rounds.
Suddenly, a few rather insulting words came up on the main Security computer.
Drusilla was quick to trace the call and headed up to the Drive room with a rusty spoon ready to cut out somebody's spleen.
 
*****Engineering, Engine component control centre*****
 
Installing the components which would allow the ship to create a jump portal to another dimension wasn't turning out to be as easy as it sounded.
Steev struggled through the maze of pipes, metal grids and barely covered up electrical wires to get to the alcove he needed, and once there he found that he needed more than just a screwdriver because most of the screws had rusted and fused themselves to the bulkhead.
 
Installing a functional dimensional portal drive may take a while longer, but Super Engineer wasn't about to give up.
 
*****Parrotts bar 2000*****
 
Owen Numan looked out of his bar and across the promenade. He looked at the bar opposite, or at least a new advertisement in the bar window.
It shocked him, angered him and would humiliated and broke him if he didn't do something about it.
The bar across the way was offering cheaper beer, more comfortable chairs and lap dancing on tuesdays. (The name Penny Lloyd was written next to the word lapdancing, but had been scribbled out when Lloyd herself turned up and threatened to pluck the owner's scrotum with some heavy-duty crocodile clips.
 
Numan saw that he had no customers, closed the bar and walked over the promenade to the other bar.
This wasn't friendly competition.
This wasn't rivalry.
This was WAR.
 
*****Meeting room, 1300 hours*****
 
As Cannon had agreed to using the Dimensional Jump drive thingy, Niples felt he had to at least try and make it official. So he held a staff meeting.
 
"How long do you reckon it will take to finish installing the jump drive?" Niples asked Lt. Cmdr Smegg.
Smegg glanced with his assistant engineering officer Steev and said "I'm not sure, but it should be soon...."
 
Cannon clapped his hands together excitedly.
Niples gave him a sideways glance and thoughts of "Lets get this over and done with as soon as possible" ran through his head.
 
Now it was Science officer Phil Febuggure's turn to voice his opinions. He briefly explained that the drive would require a large amount of open space to try it out, with no nebulae or gas clouds to make the operation unstable. Afterall, they were experimenting with an unknown drive which they weren't even sure would work- and they didn't want anything to go wrong.
 
NIples turned to sensor operator Kayn who was sat at the other side of the conference table. "Is there any area of space like that around here?"
 
Kayn checked his AA map of the solar system and was quick to point out an area of space with nothiing in it.
"It's a partly explored region called the 'Boredom zone' said Kayn."
 
"Why partly?"
 
"Because the science ship which was exploring it got so bored it returned home."
 
"Ahh"
 
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(OOC- Ok I know this is a bad place to end it, this was probably long and boring so please spice it up a bit, and in the meantime.....
 
What will Drusilla do to Johnson and Kayn?Where is Harris?
Whatever happened to Navigation officer Kieran Loes?
Will the 2 barmen get on together?
 
Will the engineers fit the Dimensional portal (ok I'm just stalling for time here), I want everyone ready to go by the time I write the next action post, which may be this weekend.
 
Please post up until we use the portal/jump drive (whatever you call it!) but no further!!!!
 
 
==================================Lt. David "Onion" BallAssistant Helm officer/ Pilot  USS Endeavour-ACommander Seymour Niples  JMC Blue DwarfWWW.Home.JMCBlueDwarf.com==================================