822/08/21
Kansas system, Wichita Orbital R&D
Maxi Brown, Construction Chief
The boss is out on some goose chase or other, and that leaves this poor girl stuck with the paper work.
We got the core of the Junction Wreck resealed and pressurized, but -=J=-Bandersnatch is hanging off the outside with her reactor jury-rigged to the station via a sort of reverse shore power cable arrangement. It's a damn good thing that there is a copper field in Humboldt. Gateway's promise of 48 hours for delivery of the Nuclear Devices is already hanging on most of a week, and, as long as they haven't delivered, we're stuck with this arrangement.
Once we got the power sorted out, we could get a figure on how much more strut work we'd need. The base is gonna use up about 25k tonnes of framing. We had to get it imported from Scarborough in Newcastle in the form of Super Alloy. The stuff's a right pain to work on, but at least we know the skeleton of the station will be solid.
822/09/16
Kansas system, Wichita Orbital R&D
Maxi Brown, Construction Chief
We finally got the nuclear devices, no thanks to Gateway Shipping. After numerous promises, the buggers never delivered a single unit, and took a whole month to not do it. People call me a Junker like it is an insult, but at least I don't reneg on my obligations by just wandering off.
With on site power and the steady supply of Robotic Hardware, we can get down to actually building the base. The next phase is more time consuming than anything else, but we're about a third the way there!
822/09/27
Kansas system, Wichita Orbital R&D
Charles Alestone, CEO
Phase one is complete. We have a livable habitat in orbit of Topeka, but that is all it is so far. The facilities are viable, but currently kind of crude. Our next stage is going to be a lot less slapdash, since we aren't going to be dealing with trying to address things as they pop up.
That said, I need to get a hold of Synth Foods and see what is needed to get a biodome complex out here. I may also want to talk to one of the various Orbital Spa and Cruise branches about some decent accomodations, since we are just barely past the hammock stage in the current quarters.
822/10/15
Kansas system - Planet Topeka
Hirschel Research Station
Charles Alestone, CEO
Wichita Orbital R&D is under new ownership effective immediately. In a completely unexpected happening, I took Silk_Road out today, intending to sell off unneeded supplies and found a Commonwealth force and 2 Cryer ships parked right outside.
After a long and varied discussion, Cryer bought the station on the spot for 200MCr, logs attached. It is a happy coincidence, since we have moved operations to Topeka and Hirschel Research Station. If they had not come along, the station keeping systems would have been turned off, and Wichita, the station, would have gone to meet Wichita, the planet.
In any case, Wichita, while pretty and still a good vacation spot, is now a closed chapter in the company's history.
[15.10.2015 19:25:07] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: my partner says, you require assistance which Cryer Solutions can provide
[15.10.2015 19:25:07] [HF]-Gamma.2: Stevens: Contact.
[15.10.2015 19:25:08] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Afternoon, Silk Road.
[15.10.2015 19:25:21] Silk_Road: Can I help you, folks?
[15.10.2015 19:26:01] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: No need. Cryer here is interested in surveying planet Wichita.
[15.10.2015 19:26:14] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: This being Commonwealth space, we saw fit to meet them here.
[15.10.2015 19:26:28] Silk_Road: Indeed?
[15.10.2015 19:26:47] Silk_Road: Well, I wouldn't mind neighbors.
[15.10.2015 19:26:57] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: We may be getting some new ones.
[15.10.2015 19:27:33] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Don't let the Pandion intimidate you. It's a formality, really. All our weapons are cold and we're only here in case-
[15.10.2015 19:27:38] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: something goes terribly wrong.
[15.10.2015 19:27:45] Silk_Road: Are you Cryer folks looking for basing?
[15.10.2015 19:28:11] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: I don't feel intimidated by any means. When guns start blazing. that's when I feel intimidated
[15.10.2015 19:28:18] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: I was actually just getting to that.. as you see, Wichita Orbital is a neutral port of call within the Kansas system.
[15.10.2015 19:28:34] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: yes. we noticed that.
[15.10.2015 19:29:02] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: is it the only port of call in this system?
[15.10.2015 19:29:12] [Cryer]-Lazenreo: Laz: I had heard Rumors......
[15.10.2015 19:29:17] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Kansas is a very remote place. For now, it is.
[15.10.2015 19:29:54] Silk_Road: There was another facility, but it was abandoned and eventually took an asteroid.
[15.10.2015 19:30:13] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: oh. Well that's a shame.
[15.10.2015 19:30:21] [HF]-Gamma.2: Stevens: There have been several attempts at colonizing this system, most unsuccessful.
[15.10.2015 19:30:23] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: did the crew survive?
[15.10.2015 19:30:25] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Actually, that facility you speak of has had many names. It's most notable ownership was the Neo Terran Front.
[15.10.2015 19:30:34] Silk_Road: I do feel obliged to let you know, there have been Nomad sightings in the past.
[15.10.2015 19:30:58] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: That is a true thing as well, but they've always seen fit to steer clear of civilians when the Commonwealth is -
[15.10.2015 19:30:59] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: present.
[15.10.2015 19:31:10] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: if there is anything I got used to. Sadly it's seeing these, so called Nomads, everywhere.
[15.10.2015 19:31:15] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: I suppose they find the Arbiter to be intimidating as your average human does.
[15.10.2015 19:31:18] Silk_Road: No, sir, I mean the DSLE modular base. As to the one you are referring to, we are in the process of repurposing it.
[15.10.2015 19:31:32] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Hold on, the DSLE base still stands?
[15.10.2015 19:31:48] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: I was out there a month ago and it had vanished. That's excellent news.
[15.10.2015 19:32:10] Silk_Road: No, that is the one that took a 'roid.
[15.10.2015 19:32:28] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Would you care to show us there?
[15.10.2015 19:32:35] Silk_Road: I have not seen any DSLE folks in a couple of months.
[15.10.2015 19:32:42] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: well gentlemen. let's make sure, that doesn't happen to this base.
[15.10.2015 19:33:14] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: It may not look it, but Wichita Orbital is a fortress. You'd have a fleet of Arbiters on top of it in minutes if any-
[15.10.2015 19:33:18] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: harm were to come to it.
[15.10.2015 19:33:20] Silk_Road: //The wreck has not been moved, it is still just forum RP at this point.
[15.10.2015 19:33:57] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: //np
[15.10.2015 19:34:06] Silk_Road: We towed the "Junction Wreck" to Topeka as a foundation for a research station.
[15.10.2015 19:34:22] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: So, back to this station, you would need supplying for it?
[15.10.2015 19:34:34] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: and in exchange we can survey the planet?
[15.10.2015 19:34:35] Silk_Road: We being Hirschel Energy R&D.
[15.10.2015 19:35:30] Silk_Road: I make no claim on Wichita. Our purpose was to get out away from habitation as a precaution. I don't want a "Texas" -
[15.10.2015 19:35:37] Silk_Road: on my conscience.
[15.10.2015 19:35:55] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: I assume your research is classified?
[15.10.2015 19:36:15] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: I do feel as if we're getting slightly off topic.
[15.10.2015 19:36:18] Silk_Road: More proprietary, but it is not Classified.
[15.10.2015 19:36:50] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: well, all in due time. Right now, I believe HellFire needs medical assistance, which we can provide?
[15.10.2015 19:37:11] Silk_Road: Actually, gentles, I would be willing to sell Wichita. We are just moved into the Topeka facilities.
[15.10.2015 19:38:05] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: I'm in no mood for this.
[15.10.2015 19:38:27] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Silk Road, we are here to work out a contract between Cryer and the Commonwealth. Clearly being clandestine -
[15.10.2015 19:38:35] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: about it is an exercise in futility.
[15.10.2015 19:39:02] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: I agree with the captain here. Lives are at stake
[15.10.2015 19:39:05] Silk_Road: Sir, if they want to survey the planet, I have no say in the matter. Our charter was explicit that we were not claiming -
[15.10.2015 19:39:09] Silk_Road: real estate.
[15.10.2015 19:39:21] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: That's good to know.
[15.10.2015 19:39:28] [Cryer]-Lazenreo: Laz: Yes we should get down to business.
[15.10.2015 19:40:02] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: I was going to suggest that Wichita Orbital be used as a neutral drop off point for trade with Cryer.
[15.10.2015 19:40:24] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: At least, until docking protocols amongst both Cryer and the Commonwealth can be revised.
[15.10.2015 19:40:26] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: I see, I see *rubs his cheek*
[15.10.2015 19:40:38] Silk_Road: Let me make an offer, and I will cease involvement.
[15.10.2015 19:40:56] Silk_Road: Cryer, would you be interested in the facility for 200M Cr?
[15.10.2015 19:41:00] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: I guess it would be best if we bought the base then.
[15.10.2015 19:41:22] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Perfectly legal under Commonwealth law. A first, but nothing stopping you.
[15.10.2015 19:42:02] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: well, in that case, I guess Cryer Solutions now has another base of operations.
[15.10.2015 19:42:39] [Cryer]-Lazenreo: Laz: I will be honest, I am pretty unsure about this....
[15.10.2015 19:42:42] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: I will supply the amount needed myself, since my partner has doubts about this. But there is something that comes...
[15.10.2015 19:42:59] [Cryer]-Newton: with this purchase
[15.10.2015 19:43:20] [Cryer]-Newton: and that is the aggrement for medical supplies between Cryer Solutions and HellFire
[15.10.2015 19:43:56] Silk_Road: There is a condition imposed by the Commonwealth. They have inspection rights by virtue of an adminstrative account.
[15.10.2015 19:44:13] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: I'd be lying if I said the Commonwealth wasn't lacking in medical supplies. And, that. The base's administration has-
[15.10.2015 19:44:47] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: always been subject to Commonwealth scrutiny. We've given Wichita Orbital more lax treatment than other installations, actually
[15.10.2015 19:45:00] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: In part because it was constructed before the Commonwealth's declaration.
[15.10.2015 19:45:07] [Cryer]-Newton: I can understand that.
[15.10.2015 19:45:43] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: What I'm saying is, Hirschel and the Commonwealth are neighbours. There's no concern about any business between us.
[15.10.2015 19:46:03] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: I see
[15.10.2015 19:46:11] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: well, we have nothing to hide
[15.10.2015 19:46:20] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: you are welcome aboard any time
[15.10.2015 19:46:55] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: My only concern is that a security breach here today would spell the end of Cryer, but I don't believe anyone here -
[15.10.2015 19:47:03] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: has enough love for the Republic to do such a thing.
[15.10.2015 19:47:50] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: I am a Doctor. I am bound by my oath to preserve life.
[15.10.2015 19:47:58] Silk_Road: I used to be a naval officer, operational security is nothing new. Soonest completed, soonest forgotten.
[15.10.2015 19:48:08] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: that oath superseeds any earthy domains or interested.
[15.10.2015 19:48:39] [Cryer]-Lazenreo: Laz: We help most people who require it, there are exceptions.
[15.10.2015 19:49:26] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: We do have a transport en route to retrieve the supplies.
[15.10.2015 19:49:27] Silk_Road: Folks, I don't mean to rush, but that facility has had its supplies and crew removed. If you want it, we need to bring it back-
[15.10.2015 19:49:33] Silk_Road: operational.
[15.10.2015 19:50:28] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: where do I transfer the funds to?
[15.10.2015 19:50:42] Silk_Road: Directly is fine.
[15.10.2015 19:50:48] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Well, not the way I was expecting this meeting to go, but I suppose it's a good way to seal the deal between all -
[15.10.2015 19:50:50] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: three parties.
[15.10.2015 19:51:41] Silk_Road: Master Locklear, can the Commonwealth supply Crew?
[15.10.2015 19:51:46] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: how did you expect this meeting to go? Personally, I like the location. But we will have to settle docking clearance
[15.10.2015 19:52:21] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: and I'm sure you will protect the base. I know HellFire has the greatest pilots in Liberty
[15.10.2015 19:52:22] [Cryer]-Lazenreo: Laz: Well this is a way to see things as... Prosperous.
[15.10.2015 19:52:25] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: The old docking clearances should work just fine.
[15.10.2015 19:52:42] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: ah
[15.10.2015 19:52:52] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: We do have a problem though. Long range sensors have detected a Republic battlegroup inbound.
[15.10.2015 19:53:00] Silk_Road: With certain exceptions, the base is unrestricted.
[15.10.2015 19:53:28] [Cryer]-Newton: Will: a republican fleet? Where?
[15.10.2015 19:53:43] [Cryer]-Lazenreo: Laz: I detect it to, Califonia.
[15.10.2015 19:53:44] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: I need to move the Pandion into position. So, to summarize..
[15.10.2015 19:53:45] [HF]-Gamma.2: Stevens: Should I relocate to Gamma Ones position, sir? We can intercept there, if necessary.
[15.10.2015 19:54:08] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Ownership of Wichita Orbital will be transferred over to Cryer for the sum of 200 million SC.
[15.10.2015 19:54:30] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Hirschel and Commonwealth forces will be given unlimited access to the facility,
[15.10.2015 19:54:32] Silk_Road: Agreed upon payment to Silk_Road.
[15.10.2015 19:54:45] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: And Cryer will put in a visa request over the appropriate channels.
[15.10.2015 19:55:13] [HF]-HFB-Pandion: Locklear: Two, form up.
[15.10.2015 19:55:33] [HF]-Gamma.2: Stevens: Roger that.
822/10/16
Magellan system - Freeport 4
Charles Alestone
Early this morning by local system time, a squadron of Nomad caps came out of the cloud near Topeka. With the base nothing more than an unshielded, pressurized habitat at this point, it didn't take much to ruin all of our work.
Bandersnatch is gone; she was the duty lifeguard and was trying to protect the base and the workforce on the outer hull. Even worse, Maxi and Contraption are gone. One of the big ships swatted them almost casually when they tried to evacuate the crew.
The only reason I am still alive is that I went over to Vespucci to formalize the sale of Wichita Orbital and was coming back while the slaughter was in progress. The base computer burst transmitted to Silk_Road, finishing up right before the comms were destroyed.
I got her turned around and out of there and there wasn't anything they could do about it. Unfortunately, there was nothing I could do with a Serenity transport against 8 battleships. I should have paid more attention to what that Division 9 ship showing up could mean, especially after Mr Yoshida informed me of what they are.
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