An Old Story - a war story of unreality
With a flip of a switch, the huge engine died, leaving the soft puttering of the auxiliary generator. theoretically this would be enough to keep them warm and the monster engine ready to fire back up.
Bone King: Drunken Shenanigans [Pre-Apocalypse]
Colonel dawkins, ever on the look out for someone to shout at and to bully, spotted the fire engine as it's engine revved.
Prelude to An Endless Voyage: The day the Xians came
Officer reported green status on all engines.
Dreadnaught
Red meantime had made his way to engineering and had found the engine room. in it sat a warp core hooked up to two main propulsion systems, two impulse engines and pride of place sat the hyper drive.
Scrap: Hovercrafts!
"cause if so i'll - " "no," dominic interjected, and both fell silent, focusing on the engine. when maurizio had it well in hand, dominic started on the inner engine, which had the cladding removed, but little else.
Dottie (2022)
Ivo, who would serve as flight engineer, went through the engine start checklist. alvin followed along and watched as engine three was started first. it was the critical engine, as it operated the generator.
Monachopsis
It was still a bus bolted to a delta-wing, though, bulky and ungainly compared to more modern craft, with ion-engines reverse-engineered beneath its fuselage and mounted in its slimmed-down tail section where its largest rocket engine would have been originally
Slave Training: Part Two
Yet he was not one of the mindless and the engineer was about to see that for himself.
Of the Collective, Chapter 2
engineer wants to interview adham, medic and representative believe her expertise may be more useful speaking to navigator rika fischer. engineer acquieses.
The Cold Wind II: Taniwha (Ch 06 - 07)
The pinned engineer's struggles and thrashing were no match for his superior strength. "you are one of _them!
Starfall: Chapter 1: One Small Step For Mammal Kind
Except i was told it wouldn't if anything happened in ftl space as the engine is keeping me here. that way when the engine returns to real-space, i'll return with it.'
Splintered Light, Chapter 4.4: Farewells and Salutations
"the only dragon, or the only chief engineer?" chief veridius about-faced, flicking the door open further with his tail as he wandered back into the engine room with a chuckle. "yes."