Lieutenant Commander,

In light of the surrender of the Yorktown and subsequent capital punishment of her Captain, Regia Reznik, I'm hereby assigning you to head up the R&D assignment in scouring the vessel for anything useful.

Should you or any personnel from the RDI division find anything noteworthy, you are to report and file all findings to Command.

You are cleared to make full use of this communication channel for the purpose outlaid above.

That will be all and godspeed.

Fleet Admiral,

My pleasure to finally speak to you more personally; orders are acknowledged and work will begin in earnest, I'm sending necessary queries for personnel to RDI and by the moment this messages reaches your desk - we are likely to start examining Yorktown.

The sheer size of the ship, it's databanks and the volume of work effort involved suggests the inspection will take three days - by most optimistic prediction. I shall return to you once more conclusive results are present.

Fleet Admiral,

I'm pleased to announce analysis of Yorktown have been completed and results are less than reassuring, but nothing that isn't manageable with our resources; below will be a rundown damage assessment and rundown of valuable information extracted from it.

• Her hull is extremely battered - one can assume they've been running on damage control and field repairs for a while now, utilising what limited resources they could procure to keep her afloat. Quite the resourceful bunch, I must say... but I digress from the subject of the report. It's a miracle she's still holding together with hull integrity around third-quarter of nominal values for Atlantis-class carriers - referring to these numbers as those of a vessel of comparable size. Several decks are depressurised and locked down, armor plating is either nonexistent or so damaged it can barely fulfill it's primary function. It is mostly intact around the reactor, the bridge and engine compartment.
  
• Her core is running at minimal capacity, it's output ranging from 10 to 13% and fluctuates over time, it's unclear at this point if these fluctuations are of any threat to further ship integrity but some voices are claiming it is not; and I'm inclined to believe these voices after personally evaluating it's state. But overall, it's output is only sufficient to properly support it's shield generators and engines. Anything beyond that and we're straining her even more.
  
• Yorktown's databanks turned out to be a treasure trove. From what we could extract and copy to a secure storage on Norfolk - it is a sizeable cache of Legion's historical references and thorough technological database on battleship, cruiser and fighter specifications, down to specifications of technologies used by now destroyed Insurgency but primarily - the Hellfire Legion. If of no further use, it should be a valuable insight if we decide to refurbish Yorktown for use as a fleet asset.
  

Normally, the verdict would be to scuttle the vessel and use refurbished components in construction of a new warship but for the moment it is more feasible to give her the extensive repairs and replace it's power core with it's analogue from Atlantis as they have similiar specifications. A tremendous undertaking no doubt, but one Liberty, I am sure, can shoulder. The decision how to proceed is yours, Fleet Admiral, but I would advise on outlined course of action, and will spearhead the efforts on your consent.

Needless to mention that for the time being, individuals should be filled in on specifics on a need-to-know basis.

Lieutenant Commander,

I'm pleased that assigning you to this undertaking has proven to be efficient - excellent work, so far.

The databank will need to be further checked and compile all information. This will be disseminated immediately to the Admiralty, for our eyes only. We could learn a great deal from the encoder, so this is to be top priority.

However, once this is done, you have the go ahead to further run-up the project with respect to repair and transferring hardware, as specified in your initial brief. There is an Atlantis-class moored at Norfolk, this may be utilised for the purposes of the project. Should you need anything further from this stage then do let me know, Lieutenant Commander.

Carry on.

Fleet Admiral,

Apologies for a severe delay with a new progress report on project Yorktown. Progress is being made: a plan has been devised on how to proceed with reconstruction of repossessed vessel and the first stage has been proceeding apace: outer plating around the reactor compartment has been deconstructed and power chains properly severed to be easily reconnected when a new reactor is put in place of the old strained core. It is worth mentioning that her old reactor is unuseable and best course of action is promptly take it apart.

However, work has been significantly delayed by the lack fo donor reactor, and constructing a new one would take unreasonably long, hence my proposition to approach the issue is as follows: repurpose the reactor from an Atlantis-class assault carrier with active service time not exceeding 50% of estimated total, for Yorktown to later undergo a scheduled maintenance and get a proper replacement. It's no doubt a temporary decision, but one we will have to settle with if we are to see her set to the skies on shorter notice.

On that note, Fleet Admiral, I must petition your assistance in securing the suitable replacement of one of the Assault Carriers nearing it's scheduled maintenance time or recalled for such at present. I've taken liberty to analyse valid candidates and will direct the list as a separate private message to your neural net address for consideration.

In the meantime, I have been dedidacted to securing storage space and calculating the logistical needs of the project; a few spacious storage bays on Juneau are now designated for supplies coming to cover these needs, and the manifest to put her back to action would be as follows:

• 50.000 ablative armor plating - subject to months of fighting without proper maintenance, a lot of outer plating requires urgent replacement. Beside that, reactor compartment plating needs to be reconstructed from scratch.
  
• 15.000 hull panels - for skeleton reconstruction of inner plating surrounding reactor compartment.
  
• 10.000 energy field equipment - to faciliate proper energy distribution from the newly installed reactor.
  
• 5.000 nanocapacitors - for temporary energy storage, supporting the energy field equipment in power distribution.
  
• 5.000 superconductors - to reconnect ship power lines and replace dysfunctional ones across the ship.
  

It would be smart to outsource some shipping to trusted contractors to ease the strain on Merchant Marine, whose assistance will be petitioned for the project in limited capacity.

Fleet Admiral,

Coming back with another lengthy report from Juneau after speaking with the quartermaster moments ago - the man's just left this office, in fact. So, let me speak of the progress in an orderly fashion.

First thing first - material shipments; Detroit Munitions completed their contract, and so did Merchant Marine, with supplies moved to reconstruction site and put to use immediately upon delivery, nothing got to lay in storage for a prolonged period of time.

Ship's energy distribution network was rebuilt from ground-up - too much of it was beyond repair to faciliate partial replacement without risking failures in the areas Yorktown would've inherited from before reaching Juneau; on a warship where men and women of Liberty will be safeguarding Liberty in their service. We can not, and will not afford the loss of life to negligence and oversight.

The reactor's been the worst part. The mothballed Atlantis-class was manned by a skeleton crew and escorted to Juneau during an issued general traffing warning due to malfunction of one of trade lane rings. Our officers assisted with traffic routing on spot, and warning was lifted half an hour later once towing to Zone 21 was complete; once fit into a clear drydock, the crew have returned to Baltimore on a shuttle blent in with general traffic and Juneau construction workers carried out the same process that was done to Yorktown in preparation - power supply lines were disconnected from the reactor, outer plating removed, heavy lifters subsequently replaced the depleted core with a service ready reactor, subsequently restoring power lines and outer armor plating.

In parallel, work has been carried out on Yorktown to replace the dysfunctional armor plates all across her hull and repressurise the damaged decks; the work's complete by now, and all the internal wiring has been recreated from the ground-up using the blueprints copied from Yorktown's data storage - it's been passed to relevant department for analysis, and they'll file a separate report in it's regard if it's deemed necessary. All materials not related to rebuilding project are outside of my jurisdiction now.

A test launch has been run in the aftermath of work completion with simulated load on the newly installed reactor, it's output registered at 95% for majority of test uptime with simulated load typically generated by ship's systems. Everything remained stable, with fluctuations not surpassing recommended values and staying within ±0,5%.

She is ready to be put back to active service, Fleet Admiral.

Lieutenant Commander,

I shall briefly begin by seconding the words of Vice Admiral Uhmen, whom has covered the majority of what I was going to say. However, your undertaking and oversight of this project have been nothing short of exemplary. You have shown a very high level of leadership and determination whilst assigned to this very complex matter - you should be proud, Lieutenant Commander - along with all of those that have served alongside you throughout this task.

All I can advise at this stage would be to liaise with the Vice Admiral, and get the Yorktown through various trials to ensure her worthiness and capabilities are up to standards.

By all accounts, it would appear this is rapidly coming to fruition and I look forward to receiving the after action report in due course.

That will be all and godspeed.

Admirals,

I'm grateful for the praise and will be sure to commend the team who'd seen this project to it's completion under my management - these people deserve more credit for shouldering the bulk of this herculean task. I've but humbly directed their efforts and ensured all the needs for the project to proceed smoothly were covered on time. But I digress - Vice Admiral Uhmen, your suggestion for classified trials is sound - nothing like these trials is a better way to bid farewell to the drydock and welcome her into live action, and the task force it's getting assigned to.

I will not deny - I am eager to take the helm of her, but something tells me with this new beginning from a fresh page - she would do well with a new name to her. I suggest we rechristen her New Jersey.

Her and I are both eagerly awaiting your arrival at Juneau, Vice Admiral. Let our efforts mark the beginning of her service to the Republic anew, not foreshadowed by her past.

Oh, and on additional note, Vice Admiral - it'd be my pleasure to see New Jersey assigned to the Task Force Akhetaten - I presumed it's best I make it clear.