Source: The Ring, New Berlin system. Comm ID: Hanna Richter, DHC Secretary
Esteemed Samura and Orbital representatives,
it has come to our attention lately our Corporation's Personal Luxury Transportation wing may be somewhat obsolete in the light of requirements of modern PLT market.
Pelican-class personal ferries seem to be too small to fulfill role of proper self-sufficient yacht for a longer period of time, while Luxury Liners are simply too big and costly in construction and maintenance.
Class of luxury yachts is exact answer for our needs and your companies were selected to this call for bids for shipbuilding; the Daumann Heavy Construction has need of newly constructed yacht. After reviewing offers from entire Sirius we finally chose two ships we are interested in - Democritus-class and Geisha-class yachts.
First one is fine product of Oribtal luxury vessel manufactories, the latter is unique combination of tradition expressed by art and utility. As we could not decide which ship of those two should be chosen, we decided to call for bids for contract.
Hereby we announce this call for bids for construction of one yacht for our company, with following ranking system used to rate offers:
25 points may be received for finished vessel's hull strength, without any additional armor plating.
25 points may be received for cargo hold's size.
15 points may be received for powercore size, nautrally with taking into account possible Net Energy Recharge Feature affected by Daumann IDendtification transponder installed.
15 points may be received for amount and quality of active defences installed on a ship, such as turrets.
15 points may be received for amount and quality of passive defences installed on a ship.
10 points may be received for proposed price.
Application time will end in a week from now, at 19th July. Interested party is obliged to transfer an earnest payment of 10 Million Credits to account DHC-Bank, and announce that fact on this frequency alongside timestampped proof of transaction.
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::: Target ID: Hanna Richter :::
::: Subject: Re: Yacht Enquiry :::
::: Location: Sheffield Station ::::
Dear Hanna,
Just a note that your request has reached our head office. I've nudged it along to our construction department as well, and someone should get back to you shortly. I'm afraid I can't do much more from where I am, but I'm sure engineering will take good care of you.
If you've got any further questions or alterations to the specifications, please don't hesitate to let us know.
Source: The Ring, New Berlin system Comm ID: Hanna Richter, DHC Secretary
Guten Tag Frau Tyler,
it is good to hear from Orbital, we are waiting for your proposal.
Samura representatives, we still wait for an answer from you, Herren.
Due to interest shown by Oribtal Spa and Cruise, period for offer submissions is extended by one week, with a new deadline set at 26th June. If Samura Omotai Zaibatsu is interested in participation in call for bids, we ask for confirmation. All other terms are left unchanged.
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::: Target ID: Hanna Richter :::
::: Subject: Re: Yacht Enquiry :::
::: Location: Baltimore Shipyard ::::
Hanna,
Nathan Richardson here from Engineering. I've heard you're interested in a Democritus. I'll tell you now, those birds are some of the best in Sirius. Don't get me wrong, they're not warships, a Demo won't fight off a fleet in isolation, but it'll come closer then any other ship on the market. There's a very good reason they head up our VIP section.
That's about enough empty words from me. I've attached the schematics you requested to this message. If you need any information beyond that, drop us a line and I'm sure we can put something together for you.
Quote:
Class:
Luxury Armored Transport
Hull Integrity:
170 000 Standard Tensile Units [Approx. equivalent to an armored Bretonian Gunboat.]
Passenger Capacity:
1, 500 (Standing), 300 (Seated, with amenities).
Power Core:
9000U/7500R [Provided by DSE-800N 'Foxtrot' Drive System] (Anticipated drain with DHC Systems fitted: 0%)
Active Defenses:
4 x DSE-2 Standard Transport Hardpoints
1 x DSE-OC-1 Medium Heavy Defensive Weapon [Provides firepower on par with gunboat armaments]
Passive Defenses:
Maneuverability - The MC2's superior thrust vectoring system provides you with the most maneuverable ship of its armor class in Sirius. 2 x Renzu Type 3 Countermeasure Hardpoints ensure that you need never fear the attentions of any pirate craft. Sentinel Early Warning System OS&C's patented defensive software ensures you have immediate access to lane disruption reports and a constant line to the local law enforcement, regardless of the chaos outside.
Cost: 94.4M Standard Credits
Now, I don't have access to company finances, but Melanie, who you spoke to earlier, assures me that she'll send the earnest payment on later.