Flottillenadmiral Karl von Schlafenberg is sitting in the Oberkommando office, somewhere in the main station hub. He calls for Herr Stahl using a communication console while drinking Rheinbier from a half-liter glass. "This is Admiral von Schlafenberg to Chefingenieur Gerhard Stahl" Surprisingly for Karl, but not surprisingly in accordance to the situation on the laser drill construction site, Stahl replies immediately. Since there is nothing to do onboard the Herschel and on the construction site due to the lack of materials, atmosphere on the base is chilling and quiet without the constant construction loud.
"This is Gerhard Stahl to the Admiral. What's up sir? The workers are kind of enjoying the day. Playing darts and.. basically, having some free time finally" Stahl smiles to the microphone. "I am comming to the main bridge of my ship. Meet me there" "Jawohl Herr Admiral" "Have you seen Thea last hours?" "Of course, she ist with me sir, not making problems to you and to me"
Karl smiles silently in reaction to Stahl's light humor. "Well, that's good to hear, but it's time to discuss more serious matters. Fleet of shuttles with materials necesarry for the next construction phase is to reach Schatten soon, so... I am afraid that your freetime enjoyment is over" "Ja ja, will be waiting for you"
Karl pulls a button and his communicator turns silent. He leaves the empty Bier glass on the communication console and leaves with intention to enter his ship using Drydock A-2 as a passage, probably just to check the free time activities of his crew and workers.
Karl walks through one of the corridors on his ship, the RNC-Herschel. The walls don't look familiar to his eyes. He looks at the white color of the walls, very unusual, mirroring the typical Rheinland military green coloring and rectangles, the corridor is cyllindrical. He finally realises that he walks through the finished extraction corridor. "Wait, this is the extraction corridor! Very good job Herren!" He says that while watching at some random technician walking around and saluting, welcoming the Flottillenadmiral. Karl reaches the bridge of the Herschel, where Gerhard Stahl seemingly full of power gained during his free time stays, waiting for von Schlafenberg. Next to his right leg stays his cat grinning at Karl, Theodora. She's a beautiful cat, her color can be described as a mixture of blue and silver, surely a race of Bretonian origin. "Guten Abend, it's time to finish that thing already. The laser construction is the hardest phase of all of it. Enfileld will be working on the other part, you will unlikely see each other often. I suppose that the energetic grid for laser feeding is already on it's place... I saw a big cable being tranported from the weapon laboratory, should be on it's place now..""Verstanden sir, it should be done in like two days, but I can't promise anything. It's actually not possible to get it faster. Every usefull place and construction equipment is already-" Stahl gets interrupted by a short facility-wide alarm indicating that ships are reaching the Schatten defense perimeter. What remains out of the Herschel communication and sensor arrays should be able to pick up the inbound ships at any moment. "Ja, your materials will be here in a minute" Karl's voice sounds a little annoyed, most likely by the fact that he is not going to rest much in the following days, again. Herschel sensors really pick up several green contacts. These are the ships bringing the remaining materials to the construction site, pack of Humpbacks and shuttles comming from planet Holstein.
"Here we go Stahl, work came for us" Shuttles are quickly unloading the magnets and superconductors in the drydock, some of them even directly into the docking bay of the Herschel and many to the Section I module using mooring points and transfer chambers. Stahl leaves the main bridge in direction to the secondary bridge, he's going to organize the last big mess in the drydock. Watching all the people in biosuits getting all the tools and equipment necessary to assemble the final part of the Universal Laser Drilling Device, Karl Sighs. The bridge door closes behind Stahl, his cat meows in annoyance. She looks at Karl smiling at her in return. What almost every cat surely likes, she pulls her body to Karl's leg.
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