Salvage

[Vulkhard Muller]

The Repair


Rick stood on the observation deck at Aland Shipyard and gazed in amazement. After months of waiting, and weeks of filling side contracts to get the materials he needed to finish this project as well as a massive amount of help from the Independent Miner’s Guild. There sat the Bremerhaven once a ship destined to drift out into the nothingness of space now, looking as if she just game off the assembly line. She was a picture perfect hodgepodge of parts fit for a Junker made up of parts from all four of the original houses and even, a touch of Gallic finesse in her armor plating. Rick looked more like a father looking at a new born child then a Captain to his ship.
“Finally, a ship that will be truly mine. “
”Excuse me sir?” He turned around one of the IMG technicians was holding a tablet.
“Yeah? What’s up?”
“I think you should see this” He flicked his fingers across the screen showing a 3D model of the Bremerhaven.
“Mr.Tiltman…”
“Please call me Rick”
“Right, well Rick. You see this is a Standard Heron you see here and at the back you can see where if the corporation wanted to it could add more cargo links or remove them as needed, they are modular” Rick looked at him puzzled
“Ok…your point?”
“Well sir, if you look here you will see the Bremerhaven has these additional pieces here, here, and here suggesting that this isn’t a Heron by the USI network but instead is likely…” Rick interrupted him before collapsing into a nearby chair
“A Crane…”
“Rick! Sir! Are you alright?!”
“Yes, yes I am fine, so, do you think the Guild could repair the Link? And add the other pods back onto it?”
“Not likely sir, though we do regular maintenance on our own Trains we do not generally make them our self. We often buy them from ALG” Rick got to his feet and took a deep breath before walking over to the window “Well looks like this thing just got a lot more interesting.”