Plano Outpost is a recently established Liberty Navy station located in far orbit of Planet Houston. The station is expected to serve a wide variety of duties once fully operational including; ensuring the safe passage of prison convoys transiting the void between LPI Sugarland and the planet, providing a waystation and point of respite for patrols returning from Bering and Hudson, and keeping a watchful eye on traffic coming from Rhineland via the independent worlds.

Julius A. Fox is a veteran captain of the reserve fleet, recently installed to administrate Plano Outpost. After a falling out with the leadership, Captain Fox left the First Armada to rejoin the Reserve Fleet of Texas, responding to distress calls from the border worlds and providing mobile resupply in the field to Navy, Police and Security Force patrols. His commands include Atlantis-class Carrier Oriskany, as well as being a former logistics officer aboard Battleship Arkansas. His competent leadership in juggling the dozens of corporate suppliers involved in supplying and maintaining a ship like Arkansas put him in the sights of high command, on a course to lead the staff of Plano.

A dockyard of moderate capabilities is expected to be hosted at Plano Outpost to act as an ancillary facility to Norfolk, relieving capacity for larger and more urgent projects - Though this is currently in the early planning and approval stages. A Liberty Navy-affiliated surplus shop, tentatively named "Armed and Defenseless", is expected to open in the near future, serving allied freelancers and auxiliary pilots, militiamen and others with some lightly used excess materiel dating from earlier Liberty conflicts.

Any corporation friendly to Liberty's interests are welcome to establish supply contracts with us.

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Here I present to you the first report on the status, capabilities and needs of Plano Outpost after its fairly uneventful first upgraded reactor core installation.

As you can see, work has been moving at a rapid pace aboard Plano. My new crew is enthusiastic, but a bit lacking in experience, something I expect will come with time and hard work. They joined the Navy, after all - they knew it wasn't going to be easy.

Most of the work has been taking place here, in the reactor wing. The old reactor is not sufficient for a base that is planned to expand as quickly as Plano, we estimate the new design will increase power output fivefold. It is not a cheap or simple prospect to in-place upgrade station nuclear reactors. It requires safely letting the original reactor spin down and the rods to cool while they are temporarily held in a storage pool, while the old reactor is uprooted and replaced. Our team, consisting of nuclear physicists, technicians and support staff, many of whom hope to be Ageira employees after they leave the service, gain valuable experience working with Ageira reactors and their quirks. This project has, to date, not gone over on budget and is expected to be completed on time. I have been supervising this area closely, as the recent terrorist attack on Interspace's Roppongi Station has shown lack of security can lead to disastrous consequences when trying to establish a permanent installation in space. We don't want the Xenos trying anything similar to what happened on Roppongi, and with our proximity to LPI Sugarland, they remain the largest threat to Plano.

The Ageira deliveries, as a whole, have been steadily arriving, their reputation for punctuality seems to hold up, at least for now. I have made a worthwhile arrangement with Mr. Gordon Harper of the Ageria Innovations subsidiary, and I expect them to be a valuable partner in this endeavor for quite some time - as they have been for multiple Navy installations and projects. Below you will find a manifest of all deliveries and their costs along with the related construction orders, projects and functions they are designated for.

In the immediate future, two prefabricated defense platforms also provided by Ageira will be placed both above and below Plano, as added security for prisoner transfer convoys which transit near the station. These platforms will be primarily focused on anti-snubcraft duties as the Xenos which frequently conduct hit-and-run raids on LPI Sugarland do not field anything larger. More bulk storage is also required for Plano, as the current status quo of overflow of goods onto the flight deck is becoming quite untenable. These modules are not complex to install and do not require any specialized knowledge, thus they will be installed by our own Navy Corps of Engineers at a significant discount to outsourcing.

Here I present to you the second report on the status, capabilities and needs of Plano Outpost after its next phase of enhancements, as well as plans for the future for the final iteration of the station.

Once again, I am pleased to report to you that the progress of the expansion of Plano has been coming at a steady pace, though unfortunately, this time, I cannot say it has been without incident. I will elaborate in detailed report to the Navy Combat Command Accident Board.

Sirs, I think you will be quite pleased with the work that has been accomplished regarding Plano Outpost in just a short amount of time. I have been informed recently that the newly upgraded and re-shielded reactor is performing up to level 3 specifications, with room to push it further once the adequate cooling systems are in place. All in, it means we can now support specialized modular wings which require vast amounts of power - such as our soon-to-be completed shipyard, upgraded communications relays, advanced fabrication facilities, and more. Our crew contingent of contracted Ageira physicists have been sounding the alarm on reactor capacity for some time now - I hope their worries are abated.

Further expanding on the recent improvements to the reactor, we had originally hoped that Ageira would be free to service it again as they had done in the past, but as it happens they are stretched to capacity and will be for some time. Consulting with both our lead engineers and scientists as well as our Ageira contractors led us to our solution. They are more than qualified to perform the reactor enhancements if they could procure the requisite materials, with no further human help required. I had heard from my friends at the Registration Office of a new startup opening up and supposed to be soon operating under the aegis of Universal Shipping who would be perfect for the job. I sent a communique to their registered owner, Executive Administrator Williams. He was extremely prompt and willing to assist the Navy in our endeavors and his fee was well within our operating budget. In addition, Mr. Williams privately expressed interest in a guided tour of the facilities of Plano, which I obliged to once the station was in more of a ... polished state.

Our shipyard is currently undergoing final checks for compliance by our contracted partner, Deep Space Engineering. They are experts in all things shipbuilding and I had them in mind for this venture as soon as I learned a shipyard was to be installed at Plano. I have been in contact with their Manager, a Mr. Logan Davis, who has been nothing but a pleasure to work alongside. It warms the heart to see DSE providing stable, worthwhile and productive employment to good, hardworking Libertonians who just want to make an honest wage doing some very hard, dangerous, and dirty work. Deep Space ships have been arriving round-the-clock delivering many of the goods I mentioned in my previous report along with new materials relating to shipbuilding, such as the sensitive equipment required to maintain the stability of energy fields which are critical in ship reactor upkeep. Indeed, without these devices spaceflight might be but the fevered dream of a madman.

The large, obvious happenings at Plano are not all to be pleased with, however. Some of the more minor, recent additions to Plano include more spacious living quarters for both officers and enlisted personnel, an expanded chow hall, and a newly redesigned and improved recreation wing. All of these additions are sure to raise morale, which I admit has been draining in recent weeks as the specter of spending unending months aboard a cramped, gray, sterile station sets in. I do not wish for Plano to one of those posts that new sailors dread to be stationed at. The postings we know all too well, the ones with cripplingly low morale due to hardly edible meals, cramped spaces, along with extreme downward pressure coming from the base CoC, among other divides which have even pushed some sailors to the point of harming themselves. I want Plano to be a post that the men are happy to recommend to their compatriots. To further this goal, the recreation wing includes a generous green space with a small tennis court, a pool, a gymnasium and further amenities more akin to comparable LSF installations.

In addition to the crew accommodation improvements, six more storage and supply compartments have been attached to Plano, providing the necessary space required for the physically large components of the ships Plano Shipyard is due to produce.

The next and final stage of the expansion of Plano Outpost relies upon our licensure request being granted by the Liberty Government for operation of a level-4 capable reactor. We have yet to send this document in as it requires demonstrable progress with, and safe operation of, a level-3 output-class for an evaluation period before the permits are approved, allowing the boosting the reactor output to level four operation. Once this bit of red tape is behind us, we can finally put the Shipyard at Plano into operation and begin relieving Norfolk of capacity, as was one of our founding goals.