Helena's engineer logs

[Shelco]

Opening Log - Neural Net access code 9578305839

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12.11.824 A.S.

Planet Akabat
Omicron Mu, Protectorate of the Order of Cincinnatus

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We've actually been so busy with the engine cells and that stupid powercore so that I didn't have time to note down what we did, great. I'll see that I get another log done this evening regarding the, hopefully, last work steps that are required. Anyway, yesterday was the second biggest day of this operation, we have taken the powercore apart and the fusion reactor as well, we've made two teams for that, each of which had 10 people. The core was the object of my team's interest and the problem that we figured out was pretty simple. Essentially, the powercores that our Wraith models use are still from the older models that the Rheinwehr must have abandoned a few years ago. The new weapon systems drain the core faster and thus, just as I said, the wear is much more of a problem. We discovered that my powercore would only have survived for about a few more months before it might have just given me up. This doesn't mean we're going to have Bastet cores implemented in our ships, though. That would be way too messy, no, we've taken it apart and have decided that only a few very old parts have to be replaced with modern ones. This, however, requires the Order. Essentially, a few parts within the core itself are still up to date, the ones that are not are luckily same for every ship and thus, the Order will provide us with them.

The fusion reactor was the job of the other team. Seemed like they had a harder time with that, they had a Bastet and the engine systems of the Wraith and compared thoroughly. They came to the point where the fuel cell of the Order ship was pretty much implemented in the Wraith... well... most of it. There were problems with the connection to the powercore. Why? Because we had none to test it! So we are standing there with a basically finished engine product but have no idea if it really works and on top of that we cannot test it because the core isn't done yet. We'll test it out this evening, that will be the moment when everything decides. Until then, the engine team is checking every detail of the new product. The next step is actually swapping the needed parts for the power core, that will be fun... The good thing is, if everything went smoothly, I will be able to return the ship with the finished blueprints for the upgraded Wraiths to Geneva today. Even the new controls that the Order wanted to implement as a little "extra" are already in. If we deliver some optronics, we can make our Wraiths almost as modern as the Bastets. Although nothing can ever beat a Wraith.

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Closing Log...

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