Resistance is salvageable

[TheJarl]

Freya Eistochter

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The amount of transport ships that arrive every day at Evora Shipyard has doubled since the arrival of the two cruisers. While the Vereinigte Widerstandsarmee send their convoys to the moon Akabat in the Omicron-Mu system, the Order ferries the delivered resources to the shipyard in Omicron-100. There the Order's shipbuilders, assisted by as many of the Widerstands engineers as they could spare, are restoring and upgrading one of the cruisers.

Parteivorsitzende Freya Eistochter looks at the report on her datapad.

The "Hel"-class cruiser is an outdated ship and few of its class still serve their builders the Red Hessians. When the "Vidar"-class went into production they didn't even bother keeping the old vessels battle ready. Some were sold to groups like the Unioners, sometimes damaged vessels were left drifting. The latter was the case with the two we found in the Sigmas.

The dated design leads to quite a number of issues. In its current state the cruiser could never hold its own against the well-maintained ships of the Rheinland Military and the Corsairs. The Order fortunately is quite well able to implement some of their high-tech systems into the vessel.

The entirety of the engines are getting replaced by new engines based on those used in the "Resheph"-class Recon Cruisers including powerful thrusters that are required to keep up in modern cruiser combat. The reactor of the ship is getting completely replaced by a more modern one that is safer and requires a lot less maintenance, a necessity with the shipyard being far from the Bundschuh's zone of operations. With shipments of engine components, MOX and various minerals arriving at Evora these are the current priorities.

There are more plans however. Perhaps the most important upgrade The Order has in store for us is the implementation of the latest of Kusari Optronics. The use of optronics will allow for a large increase in automated processes. We do not have the numbers to use a hundred or more people to operate a cruiser, but with these upgrades it should be doable with a full crew of about 50 for long missions far from the docks.

The report on the second cruiser, the one that will be deconstructed, will follow soon.

Signed,
Head Engineer Kirsten Schwartz