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[Tenseiken]

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Miss Ikeda.
I bring you good news. Arbiter Tiltman is once again available for communication. Once he has dealt with the remainder of the work that I couldn't solve on my own, I'm sure that we can arrange a meeting.

Onto your question. Smelters are highly specialized equipment that require a rather severe amount of both resources and space to set up. If you wish to construct one, then we are able to help. Though our engineers would have to change their standard designs a bit before they could be implemented, considering that they are optimized for melting down scrap.
You say that you are working on a shipyard. A smelter would surely help you with melting down raw materials. You would also need to add specialized factories to actually construct the building materials that you need for vessels, such as ship hull panels or engine components.
I'd like to add that a smelter is a messy construction. It generates copious amounts of heat, noise and waste. Fir first and second will be transmitted through the station and will need to be dealt with in the form of noice cancelling materials and heat sinks. The latter is a constant byproduct that you need to remove. The most common way to dispose of waste is to dump it into the gravity well of the nearest star. I thought I'd warn you about that, concerning that you have a rather well designed station.
That being said, the Congress would surely help in the construction. Should you be interested, then the kind of payment this entails be discussed in the upcoming talks.

Signed;
Rell Harrow.

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<span style="font-family:Lucida Console"><span style="color:#33CC00">*personality core activated*</span>
Science consists of stating the obvious and linking the facts. </span>