My name is Leon Dante and I have been the COO for Freeport 12 for over 2 years now.
Freeport 12 has gone from a rather normal facility to where it is now with a Core 4 main base and a core 2 extension facility which houses extra storage for our manufacturing business.
We have established a rather good business securing customers from all over sirius purchasing our products and making our business successful.
We manufacture a wide range of products including cloaking devices and hyperspace survey modules and various other equipment and take orders on a daily basis.
My prime role as COO is to make sure the manufacturing part of the facility runs smoothly and efficiently and we get the orders out as quick as we can and my daily routine involves my breakfast at 6.am and taking my position in the command centre to check any orders that come through.
After checking the orders i normally do a quick check of my Zoner Whale and make sure she is in tip top condition for flying around the rugged systems that we sometimes encounter.
Of late we have been really busy creating lots of equipment for various orders and are stll trying to get through a back log which has meant recruiting more staff and more crew on both the main facility and also the extension facility.
As I check over my ship and make sure it is safe to depart I was wondering where I should go and do today,so i found out that the Jump drive factory aboard our extension is making a Jump drive series 4 which takes alot of building.
Once i have powered up the ship I depart with my crew and decide to head to Kepler system via the Jump hole for a change.
Once arrived at the jump hole we proceed through,and after we enter Kepler the navigational computer just stops,which means we are navigating blind and we do not know where we are basically.
After finally mending the nav computer we power it back up and realise we are 24 k off course and once operational the computer system picks up a distress beacon that has been activated which seems to be coming from a base I have never seen on my scanner before.
Ships crew go to orange alert ready for evasive maneuvors and we initiate the countermeasure in case of attack.
We approach this station with caution and realise after an extensive inspection at close quarters there seems to be blast marks on the base as if there has been an attack.
We manage to get permission to dock from the bases docking system and proceed to secure our whale in the docking bay.
Rather strange as we disembark,there is no one around and as we make a tour of the base it seems to be empty which is really unusual.
We tour the corridors and find damage to some systems and doors and realise there has been an attack but it seems no breach to the base,
We enter the command centre to find one person sitting at the c.c.t.v controls and ask him what he is doing here all alone and he replies."I am the caretaker for this base and am sorry to say the crew abandoned the base due to an attack some Wilde ships which we believe came from the Wilde battlecruiser stationed in the system".
Well this was not expected in any way and we talked for a while and managed to get a communication sorted and patched through to the owners of the base and we found out that the base was actually going to be dismantled,so we decided to negotiate and finally were able to make the owners sell us the base for an undisclosed price.
So it means that we need to do some repairs and also change the name and obviously the identification of the facility to Zoner.
The name of the base was curious to say the least Shrine Of Shamash which would really not suit our taste at all,so we sat down and had a discussion on possible names for the base and decided on Freeport Storage facility and it would go along with the other 2 bases we have in Galileo and become as stated a storage facility and hopefully we can grow it into a nice size with lots of storage space.
So along with Freeport 12 and its sister facility Freeport 12 extension we have added yet another one to our list and we hope to increase our real estate also in the future and either build or purchase more facilities as we grow our business and make more manufacturing facilities.
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Once again I am on my way to the new facility to make sure everything has gone to plan with starting the refit but on arrival i find that nothing has been started yet and i ask the contractors what the hold up is.
it seems the real estate company have not put the relevant paperwork through for the name change of the facility and this means that the refit will have to be put on hold.
Not something that I wanted to happen but it may just be heading in my favor seeing as I am having a change of mind for the facilities renaming which I have wanmted to change to Freeport 12 Engineering Facility because we are to branch out and do research into Engimes and Coded wepon systems.
Once we are sorted with the facility we will endeavour to make the facility one of the best that there is for researching engines and coded weapons.
So for now I am going to return to Freeport 12 and make sure the facilities there are making progress on their daily duties and i will return here later to see how things are going.