Evangeline Anastasia McDowell

[Bazza]

Entry#: 024
Date: 07 - 10 - 817 AS @ 20:51 SUT
Title: "Kagaku no Railgun" is born.

A quick trip down to Puerto Rico and Vieqeus shipyard was in order. I needed a bomber capable of getting rid of that Navy lad who was so madly in love with me. I remembered from when I bought the Alsatia, there were a handful of Recyclers sitting in the docks. I was intending on buying one of them, or having a clone built.

It so happened that when I arrived there was a single ship currently for sale. A "standard issue" (if it can be even called that, given our nature) Junker Recycler. Like the rest of our shipline, generous armour plating and a heavy duty shield generator were a trade-off for the generally sluggish nature of the ship.

A quick once-over to ensure the ship was space-worthy preceeded the flight test. With the ship cleared of any (major) defects I handed over the fee (at a considerable mates' rates' reduction) and took the keys. We had the ship loaded into the Alsatia's cargo bay and left the shipyards.

As is the case when buying used goods it pays to thoroughly inspect them before purchase. We discovered very quickly the comms system was, at best, unreliable. It would work for a while, then cut in and out randomly. Both rear turret mounts were also non-operational. Any weapon placed on them was not detected by the shipboard computer. To top it all off the shield generator, upon inspection, had been swapped out for something off a fighter and was running at about 30% capacity; the scanner was omitted entirely and the batteries in the power plant were completely rooted.

With all that said, I wouldn't be able to call myself a Junker if I wasn't able to fix all these issues. The comms was rewired to a failsafe "always on" mode in 10 seconds, the shield and power plant were repaired using parts we had in the hangars and the scanner was installed in no time. We also serviced all the fluids, filters and other consumables the ship uses.

Then came the critical job of naming the ship. We had a brainstorm and came up with a few different ideas, I of course wanted a cool name like "Cutey Honey" or "Awesome Ship of Death and Destruction" or some such. Misaka was intent on calling it Kagaku no Railgun. Apparently it means "scientific railgun", or something. The inspiration for the name comes from the pulse cannons mounted to every flat panel of the hull.

So Kagaku no Railgun it is.

Stick this in your pipe and smoke it, Liberty Navy.

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