Ah, you. You know, I was wondering. The sound of your voice wasn't really sounding gallic, although you fly a gallic ship.
Let the reputation thing be my concern. I think I can negotiate with some factions about that. There are always ways and possibilities, right? Anyway. Do you have something special in mind? Currently, there isn't much I could offer. My team is working on the reconstruction of the first ship, however, it's nothing special at all. I doubt you're interested in it, since your sunbeam seems to be the better choice to me, both in design and function. But if you are looking for something special, just leave me a notice and I'll keep you in mind when things should work out.
Well then, seems like you're the first gallic I've encountered so far that can pronounce the h-letter. Impresses me a little bit, actually.
Hm, the engine, that's a bit tricky with the gallic ship designs, as they are a bit different from the sirian designs. But we already have found some gallic spare parts in Magellan, as your friends there tend to show up there and throw a party every now and then. In that mess, nobody really minds people salvaging the battle field like the vultures we metaphoric are. I'll assign a team on working something out for you. I mean, we surely can put a sirian engine onto that sunbeam. I guess a kusarian engine would be the best idea for the sunbeam. Just a matter of time to get you one. Leave that to me.
And once we have something to offer, I'll contact you.
We'll get you the kusarian engine tomorrow in the morning and look at how we can put it effectively into a Sunbeam. I think it won't be all too different from the engineering of a Cougar. If you could send me a detailed scan of your ship, or better, the blueprints of a sunbeam, that would be the optimum. If not, we'll manage it somehow anyway. Doooon't worry!
Refitting your ship with the engine, that would probably only take up some hours. How is it with your range? Can you stay in Liberty or do you have to return to Gallia soon? We could meet half-way at Barrier Gate Station in Coronado or in Inverness at the Junker shipyard there.
Good news, Miss Nys. Toying around with the gallic wrecks we found in Magellan, we actually managed to, in theory, find a way to install a modified kusarian H-Fuel engine into your gallic chassis. Could you move your ship to Rochester Base in New York? We can put it into your ship there, however, that will require a day, as it will mean some of the wiring of your ship has to be refitted.
However, there is a little downside to it, probably. Since the engine and the power core of most ships are linked together, we have to readjust the settings of the Sunbeam's powercore. It will probably be a bit less efficient then, as gallic ships simply aren't ment to run on H-Fuel or H³. If you can live with that, we can continue as soon as you come here. (Gallic ships run on 90% with Sirian engines afaik)
Liz
(I have a Kusari fighter engine for you. Can give you that once we're both online in New York.)
Let's say 2.500.000 Sirian Credits. I think that's a reasonable price to begin with. But before you transfer the money, let us just install the new engine first. We'd keep the parts we deinstall, just in case you want us to reinstall the old engine later. But I'm pretty sure you'd like it. When we tested the engine with the half-rebuild Cougar we have in our hangar, it worked pretty well, after an adjustment. Funny story, we accidentally put a bit too much energy into the engine, so we burned a little section of the hangar walls. And one of my engineers fell down a ladder, but it was just a flesh wound. Already healed.
Anyway, see you at Rochester!
Liz
(Thanks to Sanada.Yunko for delivering the engine.)