You send priority order for the engineers at Utopia Spamitia to develop the Everspamen transport ship.
Within a day's time, the yardmaster sends his estimates that the Everspamen-001 should be out of the dock for its first cruise within 6 weeks.
April 2200
Report comes from Europa Megalab. The Fusion Pulse Thrusters have been developed, tested, and ready to enter production!
IMPULSE:
Fusion Pulse Thrusters (Rate/Cost: 1.5/2)
Per previous agreement, Europans will use the existing fusion experiments to develop fusion-powered energy weapons.
Mid-April 2200
Its in the news and in the official governmental dispatches; SPAMFLEET has begun withdrawing Spamtacuses that are 8 years old or older, replacing them with warp-capable Spammibals.
Late April 2200
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You receive terrible news from Utopia Spamitia!
The Warp Torus onboard Everspamen-001 was wrongly calibrated and the resulting feedback loop into the power network during a power flow check caused a massive explosion that not only destroyed Everspamen-001, but also caused many casualties and damaged the drydock and the infrastructure.
You're glad you're not the Yardmaster.
Few days later, you receive the report that Utopia Spamitia will be operational within a month, and that's when the construction of Everspamen-002 can begin at the earliest.
May 2200
You attend the holo-conference with the Europa Megalab Chief Science Officer and others, which includes the presentation of the fusion-powered laser beam.
It is menacingly red and its beam cuts through Spamtacus-126, a recently decomissioned ship, with relative ease. Soon the old ship is in four pieces, the edges bright-orange from the laser's heat.
"We thought we would have a working prototype faster but there's still many kinks to work out, including the drain on the power network and potential damage to the focusing lenses. But here at Europa Megalab we're convinced that we need just few weeks more."
Mid-May 2200
SFHQ officials host a holo-conference with you.
"The recent Utopia Spamitia disaster has caused the government to start clamoring for more safeguards and civilian inspectoral body to be commissioned within Spamfleet." One of them says.
"This will cause delays for pushing out your prototypes if the Government will have to approve the launches and test cruises and every damn door hinge on the ships." Another complains.
"The question is, Chief Designer, is whether we should convince the Government against it, or not." Says the Councillor.
A) "New designs and ships being ready to defend the Earth are a matter of our security and we can't let the civilians delay them!"
B) "If we don't agree to civilian inspections, another Everspamen disaster will happen sooner or later."
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