Valetta Shipyard: Incoming “Ranseur” Dreadnought Patrol, This is Valetta Shipyard…Please Identify yourself!!
MNS-Galicia: Buonasera Veletta, This is Capitan Diego Leguizamo of the MNS-Galicia. Requesting permission to dock for repairs and supplies
Valetta Shipyard: Understood Capitan. Please proceed to docking bay “2”
MNS-Galicia: Understood.. All Hail the Maltese Nations!
*The MNS-Galicia, being fought many grueling battles and a long journey… She finally returns home*
*The Capitan stares through the window as his ship docks the shipyard, lost in his thoughts, a subtle smile comes across his face…*
Julian Illescas (First Mate): What is it Capitan…. You seem a bit… excited?
Cpt. Diego: Aaah Julian! *chuckles* I just can’t wait to meet our old friend and show him what we managed to recover…
Julian Illescas (First Mate): He’ll surely be thrilled… We’ve hit quite the load this time..
Cpt. Diego: Indeed,… Resupply and initiate repairs… And send the cargo carriage with me to the equipment room…
Julian Illescas (First Mate): En seguida
EQUIPMENT ROOM, VALETTA SHIPYARD, OMNICORN ALPHA *The Capitan proceeds inside the equipment room with along with two of his men and the cargo carriage. He sees his friend, now the chief equipment vendor supervising all the work… Without hesitation the Capitan walks towards him and yells out of joy*
Cpt. Diego: Carlo!! You’re still calibrating thrusters you machinepunk !
Carlo Manzetti: Diego? *he turns* Diego!!!! *extends his arms* It’s been so long amigo!!
Cpt. Diego: Too long.. Yes! *shakes hand*
Carlo Manzetti: Awww… You brought this all for meee? *looks at cargo* I’m flattered *chuckles*
Cpt. Diego: Oh you love all this salvages so much.. You’d might as well be rolling with the Junkers !
Carlo Manzetti: Man you haven’t changed huh… I thought you were in Texas.. What’s going on over there.. ?
Cpt. Diego: Baaah The Libretonians ! *rolls his eyes* as one of my rogue associates said.. They just don’t understand.. “Build a station in the Negra.. and we blow it up”.. Haha.. As with this all the Gallic war going on.. It’s mostly chaos out there… Anyways… We’ll have enough time to talk about it as I’m here… But for now.. You really really need to take a look at this *hands over data pad*
Carlo Manzetti: hmm.. *checks the datapad* The ‘Volee’ Cannons?? This… this is invaluable! You managed to acquire blueprints for Prototype Gallic Dispersion Cannons? *in awe* HOW???
Cpt. Diego: We stumbled upon and abandoned research station in the Sumatra Cloud of the Tau44 systems a while back… well, whatever was left of it... From my knowledge, It had been ravaged by the ongoing conflicts between the Royalists and the Gallic Council Forces… we sent an exploration team to check for any survivors or any valuable cargo left behind.. But it was clear that the life support was cut off long before, there were bodies everywhere…
Carlo Manzetti: I see… So the staff couldn’t even evacuate… That’s a terrible way to die..
Cpt. Diego: Indeed.. However the research data we found was too valuable to leave behind… We secured the blueprints and salvaged all the materials we could… As you can see from this cargo, they had already started constructing the weapons… Brought back to the ship, I knew these parts were too complex for us to assemble.. But I knew you’d be able to do it.. You’re the best machine genius in the whole goddamn universe!!
Carlo Manzetti: You want me to assemble it? You do know the risks don’t you? You mount it on your ship and soon you’ll gain all the damn attention from everyone... You might be targeted... Hunted down.. Maltese lives are precious too precious to lose in needless battles.... especially talented Pure-bloods like you Capitan…
Cpt. Diego: I’m well aware of the risks my old friend… But you see, with War going on everyone’s mind, we know the enemies are out there building all kinds of instruments of destruction… If we allow them to evolve beyond us... The Nations will be at risk… We cannot allow that... The prototypes we are attempting to build are just a start, soon we’ll need everything we can put together to keep the blasted’ Imperio del Corsario out of our space! For all we know… they are out there… doing the same…
Carlo Manzetti: *inhales* Very well then… Let me have a look at what you have recovered…
Cpt. Diego: Sure... It’s all yours amigo.. Take your time…
Carlo Manzetti: *takes a good look... Inspects every part and co-relates them with the blueprints* Aaah... This... Well… There’s material here enough to make one gun... Nothing more.. You might need to find more of these…
Cpt. Diego: Just one? Can’t you just use the blue prints and raw materials to create your own guns…
Carlo Manzetti: Replicating Gallic technology is not that simple... It might take years… Moreover their Equipment and hardware are very different from ours… You see the fuel injector systems in here? A simple wiring done wrong here might severely compromise your ship’s powercore … Not worth the risk.. May be in future, after enough research we might consider making it all by ourselves... But for now it will be best if you can salvage more of these… Certain Energy conduits and hull pannels are missing here… but that’s no problem, we have em’ all lying around here in storage…. We’ll need you to salvage more of the ‘essential’ parts you see…
Cpt. Diego: I see.. I see... hmm... Alright then… One of these Prototype would be enough for testing.. And who knows… It might come in handy… Even if not for us… may be for a more agile “Sarrisa” Class Battleship
Carlo Manzetti: Yes.. A Testrun is highly recommended.... Also.. I’d like to point out, the cost would be high, and this weapon might require a lot of maintenance… We’ll understand that more accurately after further testing
Cpt. Diego: Just name it amigo... I’ll send you the money… It won’t be a problem…
Carlo Manzetti: It would be Three hundred and Fifty Million Credits… I’ll start work immediately and fit it on the Heavy Hard-point “02” of your ship.. We’ll test it further in space and see if it can be used in an actual battle
Cpt. Diego: Gracias Amigo… I have utmost faith in you… This is going to be great !