I am happy to report some breakthroughs in my project. First of all, since Fatima returned to our ranks from Kusari, we've been able to draw up a lot of plans for a new engine. I'm hoping it'll eventually be able to run off of Leeds' smog, but that's a long ways off. The first prototype was constructed, but unfortunately ran into some snags. Luckily, speak with a fellow engineer to help sort that out.
So then, a couple months back, I sent Dan McKay to the Junkers' Vieques Shipyard in the distant Puerto Rico system along with Sierra to get some info. It turns out he wasn't there but one of his associates came along with some components that would help out, along with a load of manifolds for our projects. I went to work on that, but then I got distracted as Fatima and I went on a trip to Islay to, err, check on Planet Gaia's status. Yeah, definitely that.
Finally we have return to Skye to work on this project. If all goes right, we should be able to get a prototype installed on a couple of our ships. Unfortunately, it's looking like it's quite large and will only fit on a transport or liner without causing issue. We hope to get it reduced in size. To finish it though, we'll need approximately 4000 standard units of engine components from both Kusari and Gallia, plus a couple of those nuclear devices we just received. I'm willing to shell out some extra credits for these parts to get this sorted out quicker, as well.