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Sender:Captain Virginia Belle Recipient:Bristol Constructions & Manufacturing Subject:Contact and Questions
Hello to anyone who's listening,
I'm Captain Virginia Belle of the Liberty Free Republic, and I'd like to learn more about your company, specifically what you're able to manufacture, repair or supply.
Do you have any restrictions on possible cooperation, or is there anything you would like to offer to or need from Liberty Free Republic?
. User ID:Jaina Wheeler Recipient:Captain Virginia Belle Subject:Contact and Questions .
Good day!
I'm Jaina Wheeler and I'll be your contact at Bristol. I'm glad you contacted us and I'll of course show you what we can offer. I do see that you contact us from the Free Republic today, if that's correct then there might be some limitations to which services we can offer or at least where. As it stands services cannot currently provided in full to official Free Republic vessels within Pennsylvania, we apologise for the inconvenience here and hope to improve this in the future. You are welcome to visit our installations in Bering or Cortez though or if you have a ship legally sanctioned by the Republic of Liberty, we'll gladly welcome you on Cleveland Station.
As it stands we can currently offer the maintenance and what we call top level repairs to crafts of pretty much all sizes that do not require a dry dock. If you can provide one, we can assist in deeper repairs and with the overhaul of internal systems to a certain point. I'd love to put you in touch with our solutions engineers here if that's what you require?
The manufacturing part is currently located within Bering and is slowly shifting over to produce various consumer goods at request. The majority though is still recycling and producing small craft ship parts for repairs and some small ship assembly. A selection of 6 Marauder-class fighters is currently available for direct purchase as tooling is swapped over to other craft. If there is something specific needed to be built we can put you in touch with our project managers to figure out the best way to build whatever you need. And I'm sure you'll be glad to hear that we do not outsource our production capabilities to the LPI or have anyone else do what you contract us for.
Beyond that we can offer small load transportation of goods and something I haven't quite brought to your attention, station constructions. The latter is our strong suit and Cleveland Station is our largest project to date. Still the LFR has not yet contacted us for something of this scale and we'd need a proper budgeting and supply solution considering the situation your organisation is in at the current time. I hope to meet you with understanding regarding that matter.
If you merely wish to store something or rent living or storage space within any of our locations, please let me know and we'll accommodate you as best we can.
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Sender:Captain Virginia Belle Recipient:Jaina Wheeler Subject:Fleshing out deal
Ms. Wheeler,
Well, the fact that Pennsylvania is unavailable to us doesn't bother me if you can provide your services elsewhere. At the moment, I couldn't get my ship into Pennsylvania anyway with all the patrols and reinforcements flowing toward Kansas. The Bering sounds like a quiet enough system for that purpose.
Anyway, moving on more specifically to what I would need from your company - I have a ship, a large ship, a battle cruiser to be exact, that needs repairs and a few major modifications. I probably don't need to elaborate too much on the repairs, but the structure of the ship itself hasn't been compromised, so a dry dock shouldn't be needed.
As for those modifications, once we can modify and repair the propulsion system, the hull and armor will have to be lightened to make the ship a bit faster and more maneuverable than comparable battlecruisers, albeit at the cost of degraded passive protection. Furthermore to save fuel, the datalines, power systems and the life support system will need to be revised for lower power consumption.
We do not have the resources, equipment or know-how to make such repairs and modifications ourselves. I understand that your people will tell me the details when they see the ship, but as a preliminary matter, is your company capable of providing these services and solutions?
. User ID:Jaina Wheeler Recipient:Captain Virginia Belle Subject:Contact and Questions .
Good day!
I've asked one of the people who usually work on projects this size and he told me that we might be able to do this. It's quite difficult to tell without seeing actual details. And admittedly, we've never worked on military hardware of that size on that scale. He'd still told me that we shouldn't give up on it and that taking a look is definitely worth it to evaluate this. We'll have trouble pulling engineers in that actually know the hardware as most people willing to work on a Free Republic battlecruiser would probably sit on Planet Veracruz or the shipyards around the system.
I don't think that in the current situation, the military command at Veracruz would be very willing to part with their specialists but if you can help, we'll make them a generous offer and they'd be able to assist us with your project. It would really help though if we could find a dry dock willing to host your ship if we need to hold it over a prolonged time to rework internal systems. The chance for accidents on an immobile ship are fairly high.
So to summarise:
• We'd very much both benefit of receiving specialists from Vespucci.
• We'll need more details on the type of shit and excess of the damage - an inspection really
• A dry dock willing to host your craft and capable of storing the necessary materials would be very helpful - we have none of our own at the current time and our usual partners might be problematic for you.
Do you believe we can resolve this in an acceptable time frame for you? Then we'd be willing to take this project on after the inspection.
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Sender:Captain Virginia Belle Recipient:Jaina Wheeler Subject:Fleshing out deal
Ms. Wheeler,
The ship suffered external and internal damage. The external damage to the hull is at approximately 11% of the area and there is no deeper damage - only some of the external bulkheads have lost pressure. However, there were several minor explosions inside the ship which damaged some internal systems and non-structural bulkheads.
Inspecting the ship as such should not be a problem, however the dry dock will be worse. At present I don't know where I would get access to such sophisticated equipment - after all, LFR's capabilities are quite limited in this regard. How complicated would it be to build some sort of improvised dock if we could get the ship to one of your stations? I guess we don't exactly need something like Norfolk.
As for those experts, the LFR can get them off planet Veracruz if they can get to the agreed location. Since some of the cliques within the Liberty Insurgency can make life difficult for us even at this time, we can't help them escape the stations directly. Will something like this be enough for you?
. User ID:Jaina Wheeler Recipient:Captain Virginia Belle Subject:Contact and Questions .
Good day!
the amount of damage from the simple description definitely sounds like something we can help you with! Maybe it won't required a dry dock after all but we can only tell after inspecting it properly. Of course some temporary structure can always be done but modern dry docks offer automated tooling, conveyor systems and such while holding the craft in place. That can be done with space craft but is of course much more difficult and time consuming and in the end, expensive. But we've looked at the partners we worked with in the past to rent out their shipyards or docks and we have doubts that they'd either agree to work or release the ship in the end. As for mooring it to our installations, a ship of that size and I have to assume for it to be on the wanted craft list by Liberty might endanger our people and installations more than the usual agreements with the Free Republic do.
We're currently in contact with some and trying to establish contact with the remaining organisations bringing refugees to planet Erie. If that's the place they will be sent to, we offer shuttle services and sign up bonuses to the engineers and their families saved from Veracruz. So yes, that's definitely sufficient.
May I ask where the craft currently is and if it's in any position to do longer distances?
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Sender:Captain Virginia Belle Recipient:Jaina Wheeler Subject:Fleshing out deal
Ms. Wheeler,
Give your people instructions to get to the planet Veracruz and there, under the authority of Admiral Knight, evacuation is underway by our small freighters, who have already managed to find a relatively safe corridor through the blockade in Kansas and will transport them to the planet Erie, or to Bethlehem if for some reason they can't unload their passengers on the planet Erie at the moment. If your people get where we can picked them up, we can get them out.
My ship is spaceworthy and is currently in Ontario, however the situation is complicated by the poor technical condition of the reactor - until we can fix it, the most we can do is fire up the reactor one more time before the reaction becomes too unstable, so wherever I get it to, it will have to stay there until the reactor is repaired. Warships like this do have backup generators to power the ship in the event of a reactor failure, but they are not capable of powering the main engine - only the maneuvering thrusters. And since the reactor doesn't have continuous power control, we'll have to shut it down again anyway to redo the power grid.
I understand that even if a ship like this had its transponder shut down or reprogrammed, it would still be very difficult to explain if it was docked at your station. So the other option is to move it to some inconspicuous, remote, but still reasonably predictable location. Perhaps some cosmic body hidden in the belt or nebula could be found whose gravity could stabilize the ship and everything around it in its orbit, and even deflect most incoming rocks away from the repair site.
In that case, however, everything needed would have to get to the site immediately and not disturb the radio silence at a long range during the works, so that any signals could not be traced.
. User ID:Jaina Wheeler Recipient:Captain Virginia Belle Subject:Contact and Questions .
Good day!
if this is all we can count on, it'll have to do. There is planets within Ontario of course, the question is, with the lawless state the system is in, will your ship and more importantly, our crews and equipment be safe? The trip there alone is long and dangerous, then we need supplies and do the work of course. We'll need to be certain that Rogues are kept away from our crews while working.
Which also brings us to the next questions, how we can get the amount of supplies effectively to your ship. And we also don't have any previous dealings with the Free Republic, is there a budget for this project? Are you the right person to approve any quotes and to put this project in motion?
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Sender:Captain Virginia Belle Recipient:Jaina Wheeler Subject:Fleshing out deal
Ms. Wheeler,
As for the orbital body, I was thinking of the Pennsylvania system - Lansdale moon system hidden deep in Driftwood rather than Ontario itself. Seems to me like a remote and desolate enough - in comparison with Ontario, where pirates will now be popping up and trying to take advantage of the power vacuum after the authorities left the system. Plus, close enough for your ships to resupply.
My idea was to use one or two of your ships as mobile workshops and warehouses for needed works, while also being able to stabilize the eventually shut down battlecruiser in Lansdale's orbit.
As far as funding goes, once we have some preliminary design done with an estimated cost, it will be my turn to push it through the LFR officials and get the necessary funding. However, LFR is not the wealthiest organization in Liberty, so let's assume we will have to conserve resources and materials and only make the most important repairs and modifications.
The scope of critical work is as follows, from most important to less important:
Removing the outer plating and replacing it with weaker and bulkier but significantly lighter commercial protection, or what's available to you, so that the weight of the entire ship is significantly reduced and therefore its speed and maneuverability in comparison with similarly sized ships is increased.
Optimization and replacement of the ship's power distribution systems to conserve energy, possibly installing a battery array to cover emergency energy spikes as well.
Optimization and replacement of life support systems with more efficient models to save energy and therefore fuel.
I can accept that the most important thing is to get the ship up and running and make it combat capable rather than making it the most advanced ship in Sirius.
I need her faster, more agile and more economical than other battlecruisers, but if we can get there with civilian and cheaper technology, let's do it. She's not going to be a frontline warship anyway, but rather a heavy strike ship and a semi-autonomous mobile base.
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