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AP-FILE #361: PROJECT "SUSURRUS"

Brief

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While foreign shiplines utilized by AP Manufacturing serve their purpose within the Edge Worlds quite well thus far, it has become apparent that with the ever greater expansion of Imperium Omicronis, its challenging economic forecasts, as well as further development of the company per se, the need of creating a household civilian shipline becomes apparent. Even more so if considering that the PR impact resulting from genuine civilian craft cursing far and wide throughout Sirius and rendering Imperium Omicronis as a state in its own right, with its very own technological, economical and cultural potential.

Outline

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Project "Susurrus" features the following phases to be completed for mass production to commence.

1. Analysis of demand - complete. The APM Board of Directors along with the project commission has confirmed the immediate need of 3 types of spacecraft:

- Freighter class mining vessel designed for harvesting azurite gas to replace the obsolete B-27-E
- Tactical medium sized transport for moving precious cargo and stand alone deep space iridium extraction to fill a poignant void in off-planet mining operations
- Heavy container transport to replace the obsolete C5 model

2. Recollection of existing tech - in progress. Since some of the solutions we seek to implement in our shipline may already have been developed in one form or another by third parties, it would save precious time and money not having to design those from scratch, but simply reverse engineering some of the best features from non AP craft.


3. Adapting acquired tech - incomplete. APM construction labs will face the challenge of reproducing and properly adjusting the acquired technologies to meet the project requirements, as well as the high quality standards of our AP shipline. Along with our very own ingenious designs developed prior to this, we are optimistic to produce the most advanced ship systems Siriuswide.

4. Designing and virtual testing - incomplete. As soon as technological needs are met, we can proceed to the actual rendering of the hulls and internal structures of particular ships. The requirement a priori to this will be to find and employ a new chief designer or team capable of producing quality models for virtual testing.

5. Prototyping and correcting - incomplete. Once the VR test results are deemed satisfactory, Alabama Shipyard shall produce a limited number of prototype vessels of each kind to perform their intended roles in actual environmental conditions. Shortcomings are to be corrected immediately upon notice. The final prototype editions will go into production as soon as proper documentation has been delivered to the shipyard's construction crews.