To: The Independent Miner's Guild

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From: Frederick Sykes, IMG R&D division
To: Jaian Ki, Sirius Robotics
CC: Takeshi Ogawa
Subject: Barge class vessel construction troubles

Right, I'll get straight to the point. Aland is quite capable of building one of these ginormous ships. It's done it before. Just takes a while... But the Barge is well, tricky. We got the knowhow to piece one together. Can manufacture the hull, the superstructure, the power grid's not a problem either. But it's the engines, you see?

Those are very tricky ones. Smaller then your average cruiser plant, but capable of moving a ship about 200 times larger. Requires military grade superconductors specially fitted for each individual ship. There's only one company that makes those. Ageira. And they don't have the capacity for custom orders right now.
So yea, we're willing. Able to, but without them superconductors the damn thing won't go anywhere. And there's no other engine design in Sirius capable of moving a beast like that. Guess we'll have to put this on hold 'till Liberty waltzes over Rheinland.

Sorry.

- Fred Sykes, Ship engineering and design, Aland Shipyard

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// Seeing as the admins aren't porting peeps to Bastille to get a new barge, I'm using the "parts unavailable" to signal we can't provide one at the moment.

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