From: Coordinator Finnean MacRory of the Irregulars To: Zoners of Phoenix Point of origin: Planet New London Subject: Personel training Encrpytion key: pvc#d4ew7
Greetings, friends,
my name is Finnean MacRory. I have met a few of your people while venturing to omicrons on my semi-regular trade runs to Freeport 11, and I saw them make use of quite large ships, on par with house battlecruisers and battleships even, when tackling the resident threats of omicron sectors. That's why, when I began considering a specific project of mine, I decided to contact you.
In short, I'm considering the purchase or comissioning of a Bustard class carrier, so my group can gain access to Jump Drive technology, and through it to the new resources obtained in the so called "uncharted" systems. The crux of my problem and the reason I'm reaching out to you, is manpower. While we are a decently large organisation, vast majority of our people and activities are planetside, with only a fraction of us having any experience with space, and even then, the largest ships we fly are medium sized transports. While we can probably find enough volunteers to crew the bustard, given enough time, we simply have no means of training them. Hell, even those of us who do fly in space will need training in operating and commanding something as large as the Bustard is.
So, my question to you is simple. Would you be willing to lend us your experience and train our people so they can confidently crew and operate a vessel the size of Bustard? I'm aware you don't exactly use that particular ship, but as far as I'm aware the carrier is currently only built on Zoner bases, so I'd wager it's systems would be mostly Zoner designed anyway. I will also be contacting another grop which does use it, so there's achance I'll be able to arrange for some adaptive training for our people, after you're done with them.
If you're willing to at least entertain my request, let me know, so we can get into the specifics (including your price for such service).
My name is Nova Young, I represent Research and Exploring department of the Phoenix, I came in aid to answer your question.
Our engineers indeed are capable of producing Bustard class vessels, but unfortunately our homeship’s fleet does not possess any of them, as our needs are pretty much covered by Nephilim and Aquilon classes. Nevertheless, jump drive controls share the same pattern on Bustard and Aquilon… In theory, we could welcome onboard your specialists to examine jump drives controls and its service.
At this moment we have locally stationed Aquilons: Leonidas in Omicron Zeta and Draco in Omicron Delta. Both ships are the same in terms of the crew and the technologies, so you have the option to pick up by its location.
From: Coordinator Finnean MacRory of the Irregulars To: Zoners of Phoenix Point of origin: Planet New London Subject: Personel training Encrpytion key: pvc#d4ew7
Greetings, miss Young,
I think I got a bit carried away with my previous message and in the result, obfuscated my request. While it would be certainly handy if you had Bustard on hand, I didn't expect as such. Training on a vesel of equivalent size and role would be more than enough.
I also wasn't asking about the Jump Drive controls specificaly, though, any training in it's use would certainly be appreciated. No, what we need is general, but thorough training. Our people have many skills and come from all walks of life, but they have one thing in common. With a very few exceptions, they never served on a spacefaring vessel. I'm sure we can get enough volunteers to crew the hypotetical Bustard, given our network is spread across the whole planet New London, but they won't be spacers. They'd need a thorough training in the skills and jobs necessary to operate a vessel as large as Bustard and we simply have no means to give them such training on our own. And I'm not going to put untrained people on a spaceship and tell them to learn it on the fly.
That is my issue and that's why I'm contacting you. I need someone with the knowledge and capacity to provide our people with such training, to make 'dirt rats' into spacers. And since Bustard is produced by Zoners and your lot is known to operate ships of it's size and larger, I reached out to you. I don't expect you'll turn them into an elite crew, just a competent one. I realize it's no small feat I'm asking of you, and I'll understand if you decline my request , but if you'd be willing to help us, we'll make sure it's worth your time and effort.
Fly safe.
MacRory out.
P.S. Yes, we have serious reasons why we don't want to just hire skilled people. People talk, which we don't like, so we'd prefer if the ship was crewed by our people, not externally hired crew.
Unfortunately we are unable to respond you positively on the inquiry. We have no use of Bustard class vessels in our fleet, so if you want to get familiar with Bustard in specific there should be other groups around that could explain the specifications of each module till the last screw.
It's widely being used by non-Zoners groups or individuals, so you have quite rich opportunities to find the team that would meet your requirements.
From: Coordinator Finnean MacRory of the Irregulars To: Zoners of Phoenix Point of origin: Planet New London Subject: Personel training Encrpytion key: pvc#d4ew7
Greetings, miss Young.
That's unfortunate, but understandable. We'll look into other options.