Admiral Schlafenberg sits on an aluminium chair on the Herschel secondary bridge, now looking more like an average Rheinland shipyard construction command center. In fact, it will stay like that for the following days and in less fortunate way, weeks. Karl enjoys his half litre glass of Rheinbier while watching the large work coordinating hologram of his flagship, the RNC-Herschel.
It seems like the preparations are done. Where the main sensor network used to be, is now a giant opening digged deep inside the ship from the front to the central superstructure, directly into it's cargo bay. Karl moves his focus around the hologram, looks at the hole, at the engine, briefly at the scaffold workers and thinks about the future of his ship. He mutters silently for himself, presupposes that nobody listens to him: "Will Erik Nodtviet take a good care of my ship after the operation? How will he use it?" Various thoughts are streaming throughtout his exhausted head after another day of supervising the construction, dealing with paperwork and Chefingenieur Stahl's cat excrements around places where there are not supposed to be unloaded. Karls takes a few sips of the Bier. Somebody listens to his monologue. This fact fails to remain unknown to von Schlafenberg for too long. He turns around to see somebody seen too often today, Stahl. "Your cat is being a troublemaker mein Freund. You are to keep an eye on her comfortable actions ja? I am tired of asking people around about who could be responsible for this there and here..." With more serious tone, now lacking his usual calm and friedly approach, he quickly says: "I will lock Theodora inside my office if you don't start to watch her carefully""Obviously Herr Admiral... I apologize. I am overseeing the emptifying operations of the ship front side. I don't have time to watch my beloved cat-" The admiral, holding a half empty beer glass, suddenly interrupts Gerhard's seemingly tired voice "Where is Herr Enfield?""Short answer, I don't know.. Longer answer.. Well, Herr Admiral. He should be somewhere on the scaffold, I have not seen him for like seven hours. Probably just a chain of unhappy coincidences that I have not met him" Karl sighs, looks at seemingly red veins inside of Stahl's eye whites and says: "If you manage to meet him, tell him to come to the main bridge and report me how is he going with the bomb... He will know what I am talking about. And you, Herr Chefingenieur, get ourself some sleep, othewise you will enervate yourself, which would not be good for you, nor for the work progress"
The admiral drinks the rest of Rheinbier from his glass and leaves the messy secondary bridge. On his way to the main command bridge, he stops in the ship kitchen, opens an officer fridge and takes a chilled bottle of Rheinbier, he then leaves the kitchen in direction to the bridge. There he sits into a leather Kapitän chair and fills in the half litre glass... Now is the time of waiting and watching the construction site, various Rheinwehr and Büro patrols around Schatten and movements of gas formations in the Westerwald.
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