to be honest, I'd have never thought those cheeky bastards, also called the Crayterians, only gave us some second-hand Nyxes, but apparently, they really did it. On the other hand, we shouldn't blame them, they got a freaking war against the Gallic Royal Navy going on at the moment, and they probably need their latest and most modern makes for themselves.
It's especially cheeky since they polished the outside of the crafts, probably to make us believe they are brand-new. But when I looked into the inside with Gerald today for the first time, we were both shocked at how messy the wirings looked and how filthy it was in general. Actually, it's a wonder these things are still flying quite well, as it seems some real amateurs already dabbled with them and tried to repair them, but without any heart obviously. Not like us. I swear, I'll rather go to my grave than seeing these Nyxes in such a bad shape for any longer.
We only had a look at one Nyx so far. As I said, they seem to have been repaired by amateurs, which as a consequence means every single craft will probably look different on the inside, making it a much harder job for us to replicate our repairs on every Nyx the same way.
As Gerald suggested, we first tried to unplug the power core, the operative word being "tried", as we had to cut some cables here and there to even get to the core and remove it. In the end, we were able to do it, and I gave it to Gerald to analyze the power core on a more detailed basis to see what the hell is wrong with it. From what I've seen though - and that something was a rosty piece of crap -, we will probably have to order new power cores, I personally don't see any way how to repair them. Maybe Gerald got some neat tricks on how to solve that problem, but I guess we'll see.
While he was concerned with that issue, I used the rest of my time to try and get an overview on which cable is leading where exactly, as it literally is an unorganized, inscrutable mess in there. At the end of the day, I've been able to get an idea on how this specific Nyx seems to work, even though I found wires that don't lead anywhere, or ones that shouldn't be connected to each other. That's probably a reason for the power drain as well, giving more energy than necessary to some modules while neglecting others like the weapons system.
And once again, I don't think it was a good idea to equip them with these blackmarket engines. It's called blackmarket for a reason, and as it seems, they don't work quite well with the rest of the systems as of now. Changing this is of course on our to-do-list, but it's not going to be our first priority. Rather, getting the power core back online on 100% or purchasing new ones that are compatible with the Nyxes is our most important task right now.
Gerald, please find more about the power core ASAP, especially whether you think you can repair them and get them back into shape or whether we really do have to spend even more money.
That's it from me for today. Tomorrow, I'm going to instruct the rest of our team, so they are also capable of finding their ways through the Nyx's inside - I could really use a dozen more of hands helping out.
Damn these Crayterian engineers. They don't seem to know what they got with their lovely crafts.
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Log Submitted Knight Captain Elena Voigt
The Forlorn Hope
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