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RE: Misfit's Log - Misfit - 11-24-2018


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Misfit's Log

I haven't been updating this log very much at all, but now that I've had this setback and I have nothing better to do I should probably write something.

A couple of days ago during long range testing of the power cell in the Frankfurt system, my ship suffered a temporary power failure which disabled my navigation equipment and subsequently I struck an asteroid which then diverted my ship onto a course that led to a rogue mine. The damage to my ship wasn't catastrophic, however the shock did disable some systems and now requires some fairly extensive internal repair.

There is, however, a silver lining. This incident has shown that the Osprey design does have some flaws; those mostly pertaining to it's handling of impact and shock. As a result, I've decided that instead of sectioning off part of my cargo hold to house the power cell, it'll be mounted externally under my ship in a place that it doesn't protrude from the ship's head-on profile. This also makes an electrical systems rework a lot simpler since I can attach an external cable to route electricity to the heavy gun mounts under the cockpit at the front of the ship, and I can more easily run additional power to the top gun mount to increase it's effectiveness.

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The new modification plan

I'm having the ship towed back to Ames where the power cell can be repaired by the IRG folks, then once that's done I need to find someone that can modify my ship to make these plans happen. Should be pretty straightforward from here.

Misfit out.
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RE: Misfit's Log - Misfit - 12-23-2018


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Misfit's Log

It's good to be back in Liberty. Sure, Rheinland (or at least as much of it as I saw on my way to and from the Cologne system) is pretty neat, but there's just something so much more vibrant about Liberty. Anyway, why am I here?

Well, I'm waiting to get another one of those fancy IRG power cells from the smart folks up in the Kepler system. You might think that waiting around would be boring, but I have a couple of things to get sorted out before I can get to working on installing that new power cell into my ship as it's main powerplant.

The first of which, and probably most important, is getting the scratch together to pay for the lengthy rebuild that'll probably be required to get the power cell mounted externally and have it be able to adequately distribute power to all of my ship's systems. I am after-all, essentially moving the entire source of power for the ship from basically one end to the other, which means almost every single power system has to be rewired. With a ship as large and complicated as the Osprey this is no small feat, and I'll likely have to look for a professional ship-building company to get them to modify my ship. This will all cost a lot of money, and as well off as I am from my old escorting days, it could wipe my accounts clean. All worth it for a ship you love though, isn't it? Well probably not which is why I have to make more money so I don't go bankrupt, but anyway.

The second task is to find a new mount for the top centre gun. As standard as gun mounts across ships in sirius are, the way the standardised mount fits onto the ship might not be, particularly when you take into account the roof-like geometry that runs along the top of the ship in the location of the gun not to mention the fact that I want a mount that accepts a class of gun higher than the one it's rated for currently. I have an idea though. There are these weird ships that have been showing up around sirius, some kind of drone but I'm not sure who operates them. Either way, when destroyed what they leave (when they haven't been vaporized) seems to be fancy new technology which could be useful should I spend more time researching it. There's plenty of data to be gleaned from these remains, as well as physical components which could be retrofitted. I've even seen some drop weapons, which fire a beam of some kind that I've never seen before. I've only had a chance to engage these strange vessels a couple of times; the last one was in Sigma 19 while I was out there testing the power cell, and the time before that was months and months back, maybe even over a year ago in New York.

I'll have to further investigate the possibility of using these resources to upgrade my ship. Perhaps even kill two birds with one stone, and get paid while doing it. Who knows.

Misfit out.
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