Allow me to introduce myself: I'm Marcel Dumas, one of the captains working at Orbital Spa&Cruise luxury division. I got this contact by one of mine colleague, miss Cross, recommending you for your professionalism and competence. At the moment I'm contacting your organization with the hope that you can help my company and me overcome a number of issues we are experiencing on one of our fleet's vessels.

The vessel we're talking about is a "Lucullus" Gallic Liner, a brand new one directly from Haute-Seine shipyard. The ship itself it's functional, and all the systems work individually. The issues arise when the vessels' main processor is linked to our CCMI (Centralized Command and Management Interface), the standard equipment we at OS&C use for our liners: a few minutes after the connection of the two aformentioned components, a sequence of fatal errors occurs and hybernate the powercore level to an estimated 5% of its theoretical output. The first time we managed to redirect the residual power to the vital systems, just in time though. After a few other attempts (with EVA suites on) our team managed to reach a 10% stable output, sacrificing all but life support systems and navigational ones.

This output level would be acceptable, altough barely, by common trade ships, where nothing but maneuverability is needed. For a ship supposed to be a luxury one, is basically unacceptable: how are we supposed to make a Spa hot or a cusine working when half of the power core output is sacrificed to keep our guests alive?

I would be lying if I told you that we would not have expected this type of problem: it is not the first time that such incompatibilities have occurred when mixing the two technologies. I suppose it is a legacy of the war between our two sectors, to prevent the Sirians from being able to effectively use any Gallic technology that has fallen into their hands. Nothing insurmountable, in fact, we had already made an "agreement" with EFL to overcome the gap between the two technologies: unfortunately the sudden war that is tearing apart my beloved Gallia and a sudden change of the executives of the EFL have "wrecked" "the deal we had in our hands.
Our R&D department is simply too underfunded to succeed alone and, even if it succeeded, the expenses that OS&C would incur to keep the ship in orbit above Curacao, an empty and unusable shell, would be too high to justify.

To recap: OS&C has in its hands an unusable ship with a disconcertingly low powercore, parked in low polar orbit above Curacao, which burns tons of oil and promethene a week so as not to crash on the heads of our customers on the surface of the planet.

And this is where your organization comes into play: we need your help, your experience, your expertise, all the brilliant minds your organization can provide to overcome these problems and make the ship usable at full capacity.
Resources, financial or otherwise, are not a problem for us (or for my finances directly). We are able to provide you with everything you may need, as well as obviously a large compensation, which can be negotiated according to your needs and requirements.

If you feel you are up to this task you can contact me again on this channel. In the meantime, thank you in advance for your availability and I apologize for the long message.

First and foremost, thanks for the quick reply. Hardly a CEO responds directly to this type of communication, it does you credit sir.
Now, moving on to more urgent topics: the ship can be moved to a location of your choosing, but I suppose a dry dock is ideal. I'll ask our partners in Baltimore if they can reserve one for us. If you have other locations in mind feel free to prpose them.

As for the inspection and modifications to the ship, this is absolutely not my area of work, so you will have carte blanche to carry out any type of operation you deem appropriate in order to make the liner operational.

In the meantime, while asking for dry dock availability, I took the liberty of ordering you a suite on one of the islands of planet Curacao. If you are traveling with your personal snubcraft you can dock directly at the local spaceport without having to use the local transportation system. The island is quite quiet and isolated, with the possibility of reserving additional accommodation for your team. Don't worry about costs, it's all on us.

Looking forward to personally welcoming you to Curacao, I wish you a safe journey.

I am glad that the situation can be addressed. I will immediately alert our logistics division to transport the necessary material for your men.
Not having sufficiently large storage systems in orbit, we will have to stow some of the materials on the surface of Curacao.
The spaceport on the island of Lagun is the right one for us.

Regarding the payment for your services: as already communicated to you, any monetary sum to be agreed upon is absolutely not a problem for OS&C or for my finances. However, I was wondering if your organization needed something that Orbital could offer you. Food, services, luxury goods scarcely found on the market (if you are not willing to spend high amounts of Sirian credits or Gallic francs).

An option that could be more congenial to your scientific organization is this: our fleet is constantly renewed and often we find ourselves with ships that are "too shabby" to be used as luxury cruise but still fully functional. We are talking about yachts and liners that can be easily converted to command ships, mobile laboratories or ships for prolonged exploration, depending on your needs.

If, on the other hand, you simply prefer to get paid in credits, please let me know GRG's bank detail.

I await your response, in the meantime I wish you and your team a succesful job

Our logistical branch did some extra shift and was able to collect all the required materials in a very short time. Actually, in an excess of zeal they recovered much more than required: "you never know" was their laconic comment.
As already mentioned, they are all located in the Lagun spaceport. Your men can speak directly with the port authorities to organize the ascent into orbit of the components as they become necessary.
Below you'll find the delivery receipts.


Speaking of the liner: what I had in mind and that would best suit you is the "Oasis" class. It's nothing more than a leaner and "humble" version of the "Enterprise" class, our flagship liners: almost the same hull but with less frills and fewer luxury furnishings.

The ship is perfect for transporting large numbers of people quickly and safely or providing a large working environment for small scientific teams. Focusing more on the second aspect: the interiors are extremely modular, thus guaranteeing the perfect environment for any type of research that can be carried out on board: astronomy, astrophysics, low-zero gravity biology, medical and so on. Considering the small size of a scientific team, the ship can last weeks in open space without having to refuel thanks to extremely large deposits and tanks.

I am attaching more technical specifications.