Atlas Prime Refinery Fleet "Aratam Unveils New Cargo Ship; Plans to Change World"
"Earth-shattering Aratamite Cargo Ship to Set Sail"
"Aratam to Dominate With Amazing Logistical Capabilities"
"Design Bureau's Biggest Success Yet: the Atlas"
These all have one similarity to them.
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They're all headlines that risk underestimating the impact of the fully functional Atlas Prime Refinery Fleet.
Running on six GM BP reactors each and filled with mostly-automated chemical processing equipment, each ship can turn inputs into deliverable product by the time it reaches the next port. Self funding, the fleet can also act as a buyer, securing raw materials and processing them into Rare Chemicals for Aratam to use back home. With the preposterously low delivery times and production costs achievable by a ship that does in one direct trip what any other would do in four, we anticipate a monopoly on complex chemical trade within the year, potentially doubling our Rare Cemical supply.
Mega-RefineryThe once prestigious Old Refinery is starting to show its age, still pumping out the same highly toxic chemicals as always, still relying on a dwindling supply of criminals to test its new concoctions on. It is time to move on.
The new Mega-Refinery incorporates all the marvelous wonders of Aratam science the old Refinery helped make possible:
1) Architectural and design work is to be performed by workers given special Militarized Baseline vouchers, to make the most of their intelligence.
2)The entire facility will run on Gel-Matrix Bio-Paste reactor power.
3)The facility will make heavy use of Atlas style magnetic rails and cranes to move enormous chemical tanks along multi-building production lines.
4)Replacing Aratam's now vanishingly small supply of disposable criminals, cryostat treatment is offered free of charge to those most in need at the Mega-Refinery's very own Charity Research Hospital! To ensure this does not somehow backfire horribly,
Spice is to be examined for possible safer variants, while preserving the actually desirable properties it has.
6)As a cost saving measure, the Mega-Refinery's future location will not be set until one of the regions under our control agrees to crippling subsidies in exchange for prestige. Current frontrunner is Swamp.EXALT 1 (1): Blood Librarian,
NOD (1): Blood Librarian,
EXALT 1-B (0):
The DREAM Project (1): MoP
SNOW/White (0):
The Black Chamber (1): MoP
Atlas Prime (1): The Ensorceler
Mega-Refinery (1): The Ensorceler
TL;DR: Atlas Prime pushes for +2 Rare Chemicals, Mega-Refinery pushes for +1 Rare Chemicals (total, technically +2 and decommission the original Refinery's +1) and throwing revisions at all our early chemical research.
Edit: Narrowed scope of the Mega-Refinery Charity Reasearch Hospital's health and safety review.