Thanks to Achilles blunder, David could not go to his usual haunt after a solid trade run. Oh well. he thought.
He had business to attend to. Achille had wanted to meet and discuss plans for a Freeport expansion project. David had drawn up some plans as he had a knack for that sort of thing. He spotted Achille from across the dome.
"Get over here you buffoon. You just had to blow up the bar didn't you?"
Achille walked over with his usual swagger and glanced down at the table where David had laid out his blue prints.
"Here's a rough idea of what we could do with endless resources."
"Modular bases have always been versatile, but this one is pushed to the limit. That power array can't support much more than this. I've been playing with this idea for months, but never put it on paper with Freeport 10. This is the first draft including Freeport 10, but this is the mark 10 version of the modular installation in my eyes. This would however also require a staffing of roughly 2000." Achille glanced up at him. "What? A reactor of this size and factories of this caliber require manpower."
He pointed at the third page.
"The power array would connect to Freeport 10. We could decouple it if we needed to, such as if you were using massive amounts of power in the labs and there was a possibility it could feedback into the main reactor... I don't know why you would do this, but I planned for it anyway. Which brings me to my next point..."
He turned the page over the desk, revealing the second page
"A massive capacitance array. I know you like things that use insane power, so this array should be able to store enough power from the core for incredibly large bursts. It would take some time to charge and could charge faster if solar arrays one and two were slaved to it, but when charged they should hold 1 terajoule each."
"Naturally, I had to throw in one or two fun bits. He said, motioning to the breweries. "Why pay for it when we could make it ourselves and sell it?
He slid the plans over to Achille, pleased with his work. Achille was looking over the plans intently, his expression hard to read...