Stargate Universe: Continuation

Eli shut down nearly all of the systems he could knowing that power was his most pressing issue. The stasis pod diagnostic was taking longer than he expected, but hoped he would get atleast a little guidance on how to fix it. The manual for it was 1700 pages, and would take him weeks to understand all of it. He knew life support would be his biggest drain, but hadn't told Colonel Young that he was shutting it off completely as soon as he was in stasis. The vents ran off of mechanical motion mostly, as he had learned they would actually generate power just cycling the air. It wasn't much, but it was slowly charging the secondary power systems now that all of the power drains had been shut down. He had just finished sequestering the power they needed for the trip when the diagnostic of the stasis pod completed. It showed the worst possible news, as he had no way to repair the control modules that had been damaged on this pod. Even if he knew how, he didn't have the materials needed to accomplish it anyway. He knew within hours that his primary mission was a complete failure, and that it would take several days for him to run out of breathable air. He looked at the power distribution, and immediately saw that the only system that he would be able to even attempt anything would be hull repairs. He began the tedious process of isolating the damaged sections one by one, and transferring the air to the part of the ship that was still pressurized. The strain reduced on the shield as the pressure dropped to 0, and he had a few hundredths of a percent more power over the projected long term use because of it. It took hours for him to accomplish it, and made his base of operations in the primary grow room that had the large clear dome. The light from the FTL drive was enough for him to read and work from the Control Station that was in the room. The room had been planted just a few weeks ago again, and the young shoots were now just beginning to break the surface of the soil. With any luck with this as his primary base, and the vents cycling through the air would clean the air enough he wouldn't need life support long term. He walked to the area where the space suits were stored, and was pleased to see that all 3 of them were fully charged. Without life support he would be able to charge all of them atleast a dozen times, and he might be able to repair some of the hull breaches to further reduce his power consumption. He looked to the corner, and saw one of the repair robots sitting there. They had never tried it, but he was suddenly curious if one of them would be able to traverse the hull while the ship was in FTL. He however didn't consider it for long, as he knew the risk was to great to try anyway as he saw one of the Ancient storage crates that they had never bothered to open. He knew he had used the lid from one of them as the base for his Keno sled, and remembered that they were connected by a magnetic lock that could be turned on and off. The magnet was in the panel itself, and they were big enough that he could use them as panels to begin hull repairs from the interior of the ship. He quickly grabbed one of the suits, and ran to where his sled was stored as there were dozens of boxes they had searched through. He put 4 of the lids on the sled, and quickly changed as he went to the section of the ship where there were multiple breaches that were not overly large in size. It however was one of the primary corridors to the Engineering Section, that was depressurized because of them. He sealed the suit as soon as he closed the inner door, and activated the manual controls to vent the corridor to the other sections that would remain pressurized. He was surprised when it took only a minute to vent the corridor, and the light on the other panel turned green instead of yellow. He realized it was a color coded system among the doors, to indicate equalized pressure on both sides. As soon as he pushed the button the door opened, and he walked below the first of the holes before he grabbed the panel and fitted it into place over the first breach. As soon as he pushed the magnetic lock, it stuck to the interior of the hull, and turned green just as it did when it was sealed to whatever it was connected too. "One down, three to go before we see if it works." Eli said to himself as he moved to the hole Zoey had cut when she and Rush returned from the Alien Ship. This one took 2 to cover properly, but both turned green when he added the second and the hole was completely covered. He made it to the end of the first corridor, and closed the door isolating it from the rest of Engineering, which they had yet had the time to do. Something more important had always come up, and it never seemed like it would get done. Now however he knew repairing the hull and reducing the shield strain and use would be the only way he could recover enough power. He figured once he was able to seal each section, he would repair the critical systems he could before he moved on to the next. He fit the last panel into place, and as soon as he sealed it the door light turned yellow indicating a difference between the two sections. Eli walked back through the first door with his sled, and shut it before he used the manual seal to lock this section from the one he had just repaired as it had been depressurized before he started. He fully intended to run multiple tests on it before he tried to pressurize the section. It took him nearly an hour to get the suit off by himself so he could connect it to the charger system again, and could check the tablet. The shield strain had reduced by a small percentage, as well as the overall power usage as efficency had increased by a little. He had known the work he had done wouldn't be much of an impact, but it gave him some encouragement that his plan might actually get results. Eli set the tablet down, and went to the room that was storing all the Ancient crates, and began emptying one to catalogue the contents as they hadn't done a whole lot with them. They had searched only a small fraction of the crates even in this room. The first one had packets of a powder that said they were nutritional supplements, and with as many as there were he truly hoped they were still good if he ever needed to use them. He had several hundred MREs that had somehow been missed during the last two years, and he was glad for it as they would be better than the powder while he waited for the plants to begin producing actual food. He was blindly scraping the bottom when he felt the button in the center of the bottom, and suddenly felt the weight of the side panel against his chest as the other three made loud bangs as they fell to the floor. Each of them had the same button in the center, and it gave him an idea if how he would be able to repair a large section of the hull. The only thing that had been stopping them was the fact they didn't have materials to seal the holes. This showed that even though it didn't weld to the hull, the seal was enough the ship didn't have to extend the shields over it in order to keep going in FTL. It took him several hours to sort through a dozen of the boxes, disassembling them and stacking them on the sled before he moved on tonthe next one. He had found two crates of replacement parts, and had noticed a pattern to the boxes he had opened so far. Ones with parts had been labeled with a yellow color, food and the few medical supplies he had found were in green and blue respectively. He looked around in the compartment, and saw there were atleast another dozen boxes with yellow labels, and he decided as he still had some energy he would position the panels he had now at his airlock, and would get more of them and sort through just the boxes with yellow labels. The first one had more of the parts that they were desperately short on, and was glad that they all looked brand new as he threw a few into a bag he would take to the arboretum to begin the slow process of repairing the control systems he would need to repair. By the time he finished with the first box, he was hoping the others would include other spare parts he would desperately need. An hour later he had finished the 6th box of parts, and was glad he had found three shield emitters, as well as the parts needed to repair two of the weapons battery stations that powered them. He wasn't as worried about these yet, as he knew shields would be more important than weapons. The shield emitters he however set up so he could take them to the section he was working right now, as he knew full well he could use all 3 the next day when he patched the hull. He lowered the 7th box to the floor before opening it, and was surprised to see that inside was a set of 4 robots that were smaller than the ones they had used for Engineering. Each one was a different color, and he was glad there was a control tablet with it that as soon as he powered on the robots activated as well. He quickly read through the first page, and set all four of them on the ground in front of him before he activated them and set them to work. Each one was a specialized repair robot, that could automatically repair the systems they had been designed for. In fact the robots scanned the room they were in, and each went to the shelf that he had stored the majority of the small parts on, and stored as many as they could hold inside of themselves before they departed. As he kept reading he was glad one of them was for shields, another was programmed for weapons, while the other two were power conduits and life support systems. He smiled as the one grabbed one of the shield emitters as it went past, and he went back to work and tore the crate down so he could stack it on the Keno sled he was using. 2 hours later he finished with the last of the boxes, the ship automatically tracking where he had stored everything with onboarding sensors he could not turn off. He however had noticed they used power from the secondary system he had established, that the ship was now automatically allocating the saved energy too and he was surprised at how quickly it was growing as the shields took less power to maintain, and the air flow system was generating a few kilowatts an hour as the air cycled through the ship. CO2 levels had risen to 0.9 percent, and he knew it would take another 10 days atleast for it to rise to the point he would need to activate life support. He returned to the arboretum with the new tablet that controlled the smaller repair robots, and saw he could track what they were doing and where they were in the ship. The control station he was using was tied into everything else he needed, as he had most of the ship powered down. The only thing running through the sealed portions of the ship was the air, and that was so it cycled for filtration in the arboretum, hydroponics and aeroponics. They were using all 3 systems to grow plants, depending on what stage of the cycle they were in and what crops they were. The arboretum had a lot of fruit and nut trees, as they had brought a bunch of the seeds with them from Earth. They had wisely saved some of them in case the arboretum was ever lost like it had been with the type o star. Even know they had saved several of the various seeds, after having started more of them to replace what was lost. He picked up the tablet, and began reading about what exactly the robots would and wouldn't repair. He was also surprised to learn that the manulas for the other robots was in this tablet, as well as remote controls and programming that would get both of them to seperated remotely. He activated the automated repair sequence for both of them, and selected the hull of the ship between where he was and the Engineering section. The timeframe of 87 days to complete the program was a surprise to Eli, as he noticed both of them going to the Engineerong Section to begin sealing the many breaches there. He guessed he would have to seal the corridors to the Section himself if he was going to get in there before than. He fell asleep reading about the various repairs the robots could do in automatic mode, and realized the Keno's had for more abilities than he had thought at first. They were meant for remote repairs in tight spaces, and could also do repairs to the systems while out of FTL along the hull.