"I believe in computers. Good software and hardware specialists can make our ships much better. Sensors and targeting are essential, too. Finally I'd like to get a mathematician or two"
"I never expected such a request, but I'll find someone. Any other requests?"
" Yes. Are there are any broken, abandoned or civilian ships that I can use to convert it to military ones? I'd like to use it as a basis for my crafts"
Not really. All civilian crafts either left the area with the last Imperial ships or got transfered to the ministry of transport. Nothing that can be converted to military ships. Several dozens of primitive fighter and corvettesized orbital transports used for the small scale freight and passenger traffic. As for crashed ships, there are unknown crashed battleship somewhere near equator, most of it were salvaged decades ago and conditions there are so harsh that we have no equipment to reclaim what is left
"That's bad, one last question. What materials are available here?"
" We have a nice supply of plastics, glass and sto..
" That's not spaceship materials!"
"What can I do? Metals are available, but they are expensive here. Few traders risk to fly in systems with pirate bases and our own refining capabilities used for planetary construction. Besides all rare metal deposits are either in pirate's hand or totally mined out"
"Brilliant, simply brilliant. I will not even ask about prices for reactor parts and, lasers and other stuff like that. I have no more question until I get a team"
After few days I got my team, team that include 3 interesting specialists
Mark Volkov: Worked at mines. He coded mining drones and know his trade quite well
Tara Hellmuth: She is a real gem and top class engineer. She designed helicopters for her home dusty planet and she is even more skilled in aerodynamics than you are. Also, she designed nice sensors for her helicopters. She would be ideal if she wasn't stubborn, hysterical femenistic nationalistic bitch
And finally Anton Jones, Tara's bother. He knows thing or two about math, but that's all
Unfortunately I got no hardware specialist. I got basic education in that field so it shouldn't be a big problem.
Know it's time to decide what will be our first project
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Lucky bastards.... Staff rolls were way too good.
I will give some info how designing mechanics work later, feel free to discuss ideas for now