A cafeteria, some people could argue about it is not a very good place to discuss an important matter. Raul Golden, a leader of zoner engineers onboard of Interstellar Beacon thought differently to that matter. As he was the guy among his friends and colleagues, and having a comfortable environment around is liked by him better than imitating some people with a lot of stuck up noses discussing nothing productive.
Refreshes and food were taken. They just were friendly talking for now. Raul Golden asked everyone to stay around and wait for all to be finished. After sometime later he called for attention.
Raul Golden:
"Attention! We have today an important topic to discuss. As most of you already know for the time we were collecting information around.
The recently set mainframe computer with calibrated software started to process information for us in analyzing gathered data about the economical situation across Sirius. We received the results where should we extend our influence if we wish to have our productional facility having a chance to earn more than we spend on all those licenses/materials/equipment we buy and invest. Otherwise, Bankruptcy is not really far future for us to meet.
We need to decide on the course of actions and I want to hear your offers. Check your terminals, I'm transferring you the results of analytics we received."
People checked their portable terminals, looking through data. A lot of whispers and talks started to sound from every corner, groups of people discussed different ideas they agreed with each other to say them aloud:
Q -"Can we hire a transporting company from there to delivery required goods for us to here?"
A - "We could, but delivery costs would make a dent in our budget. Considering the range between two houses... this just would not work. We would be asked to pay too much for being anything left for us in the future."
Q - "What if we build a new station there?"
A - "That would not work too. Considering we have no credits to afford it, no resources to divide our attention, and adding to the bag terrorists who would destroy any beginning construction. The chances for survival of the new base are extremely low and building takes months, while we need to make it is working now, while the economy is temporally stable."
Q - "What if we sell the current station and we get credits and time from it to build a new one?"
A - "The idea has some merit, but we face the same problems once again. Terrorists could destroy our new efforts to build something. We can't take such a move."
Q - "What if we just move our station to there?"
A - "How do you even propose to do it? The station has no engines, and it would not fit into trade lanes or jump gates to transport it! Moving through jump holes is not an option as well, they are too small and unstable to even attempt it."
Raul Golden looked around if someone has a new idea, looking from face to face and expecting some path being found.
People returned to their discussions. Borning ideas and running calculations, which project could work better. Coffee was drunk in liters, pies, and hamburgers were quickly eaten. Refueled scientists and engineers worked non stop. They became semi-randomly organized on its own, for three groups of people becoming teams with their own projects on how to solve the problem. When they finished they presented the next projects to evaluate and choose.
Project: Stable wormholes
The first team offered to repurpose one of the jump drives to create stable wormholes. By folding the space-time continuum and creating a constant tunnel between two locations, the corporation could run its ships between two houses in a very short time. Due to the artificial nature of this, they only need a lot of high-grade fuel to keep this thing being active. Or perhaps some other alternative to keep it running. The drawback of being not capable to make accurate punctures for the holes was a problem also due to imperfection of the current hyperspace equation
Project: Mobile fortress
The second team offered actually to try the idea about moving the base through trade lanes and jump gates. They calculated a possible base upgrade to make it a mobile fortress. But the problem remains about having a lot of heavy modifications, and all base spaces being taken by new structure integrity upgrades to make it is stable enough for flight. There would be also needed a lot of space for massive powerful engines, which would be able to move the base through many systems.
Project: Synchronized hyper fields
The third team offered a hybrid plan of the two previous ones. They suggest using several Jump Drives Series 4 simultaneously, creating a massive enough hyper field at its center to capture base wholly for it being moved to another system. Considering the base being movement much less, it would not require too many heavy upgrades to its hull integrity. The only drawback to the plan was calculating how to align two hyper fields together. It requires an upgraded hyperspace stationary scanner having its data feed to a computer framework capable to process it. And drawback of not enough precision for an accurate jump remains the same as in first plan.
After some time, all plans were presented. The time has come for their final evaluation.
The first plan while being quite interesting to resolve the problem has two major drawbacks. Expensive fuel and low accuracy. It could be amended by having some sort of infinity or rechargeable power source, but its creation was decided to be not possible in a close enough future. While using its running on fuel, would make too much of credits being spent to keep it running.
The second plan is a highly interesting one, but probably more for some military group, since they would be needing to deconstruct base back to being industrial factory, and considering the amount of effort to make this portable station, it would be probably easier to build a new one.
The third plan was found most fortuitous to work with. Installing jump drives to two Bustards, they would be indeed capable to run proper calculations to make it working. As for not precise jump, it could be resolved by having one time used engines, which would be used already in the system to correct base location. It would not require too much of upgrades for it being possible since the range to move the base is much less and more stable.
Conclusion
After corrections to the project were made and calculated. The third choice became the main one. To perform the synchronized hyperjump, they would require the next resources being delivered to the base before proceeding:
Resource
Required amount
Purpose
Robotic Hardware
20'000
to modify base integrity for small inter-system flight.
Optronic Arrays
40'000
to make calculations for the jump performed in a short time.
Nanomembrane Filters
20'000
to upgrade cooling system for computer framework running
Engine Components
10'000
to install one time used boosters to deliver the base to its precise location
The long time desired plan to relocate to Bretonia comes to its final stage. After experiencing bureaucracy difficulties in Liberty which they could not pass for the last half of the year, the Interstellar Beacon administration decides there is no point chasing dreams where there is no chance to win.
The time has come to activate simultaneously aligned jump drives in accordance with the project and made preparations. Only the final words were left: JEROOOOONIMO! Goodbye Liberty, Good day Bretonia!
Something went wrong. The fatal miscalculation caught the base in a vortex of hyperspace breach, ripping the station apart. Some of the survivors were lucky to be left in still intact air-sealed parts of the station, their rescue was in time by arrived vessels from nearby Philadelphia station.
And even though there are people survivors, the same can't be said about Interstellar Beacon station, which is now just space debris.
A time has passed, a week... but nothing appeared at the point of destination in Bretonia. The two bustards and ripped parts of the station went missing.
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