13 July 745 A.G.S.

Okay everyone, listen up!

I was able to make brief contact with the boss. Turns out he really is having a leisurely vacation around Sirius. He better return in one piece though. Anyway, he expressed a desire to finally get these husks operational. While the Caussade drydock is complete and we managed to tow multiple decommissioned husks to Caussade, they're just floating there and deteriorating from the asteroids that keep smashing into the hulls. Yes, we did have some contracts to obtain materials such as hull panels, but they're nowhere near enough to repair ships of this size. So, we are going to need more materials, and lots of them. I will call some favours and get contracts set up with some allies to help us with some of it, but get hauling people. We need lots of material transported to Caussade. Monsieur Lavigned will have a full list prepared for us.

Next, we're going to need expertise. Our engineers know how to build and maintain Tarasque-class ships. However, this one, while still ex-council technology, has significant differences. I haven't been able to find any ex-council engineer within our cells who have experience with these things - well those who are alive anyway. I think our current engineers can put their heads together with some of our allies who know how to build and maintain ships of this size, and we'll come out successful. At least, come out with ships that won't blow themselves up when they try to fire a turret because of some system overload.

Because this is the boss' explicit desire to get these things up and running, this project takes precedence over all other projects. Recall your men and women from the other projects if you need to. You know what to do. Pour Gallia!

Normally, we'd need less of them, but without a proper shipyard we're bound to lose a significant portion of materials to mistakes, accidents or just being unable to reuse the leftovers. Of course there also is a chance I just overdone the numbers as I tried to keep on the safe side, but it's better if we have something in reserve once we're done than if we found ourselves lacking the supplies to proceed.
Anyway, I suggest we start looking for suppliers as soon as possible - the construction is going to take long enough even without waiting for materials, and I have a feeling this is something we'll find ourselves doing a lot in the foreseeable future.

You heard the man, let's get hauling. I'll reach out to our allies if we have trouble bringing anything in as well. People better not slack off, because I am keeping tabs!


Don't forget, once your transport has arrived at Cassaude, notify the quartermaster at this channel.

Seems Jacobin got too stressed with the whole thing and took a liner into deep space to relax. I can't really blame him for that, but it does complicate things a bit - while he remembered to patch me into the communication channels, he forgot to transfer the write access to his progress tracker. I made a copy of it and it should be running by now, but there may be more situations like that happening in the near future.


The speed isn't outstanding, but it's not terrible either, and we can soon expect a significant increase in it once our allies start giving us some assistance with the project.