Renaissance

[Groshyr]

Chapter I. She shall fly again

Issoudun shipyard, Aquitaine system
9th June, 743 AGS

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Since the war with Bretonia and her allies begun to take more and more of time, the necessity of regular basic supplies became crucial for the Royal Navy. The war has spanned several star systems and was raging across all the Taus back then. Now, the Enclave, even isolated, still facing similar issues as the Royal Navy faced before. The Issoudun was the Crown's project, designed as a mobile field drydock and repair facility, it was able to produce many spare parts of the Royal fleet, using resources located in the surrounding systems, thus circumventing some supply line issues.

The final nail, the glassing of Leeds, a madness that, however, was committed by just the soldiers that followed orders, made many Royal Navy members turn away from the Kingdom and betray it, joining the Duchy navy or retiring from the service at all. Many of these retired have found themselves in various security services that belonged to Gallic, more rarely - Sirius corporations. Some could not keep living after what they have participated in and committed suicide.

An ironic reversal of fortunes forced the Enclave into adopting a system of ship maintenance and recycling not unlike that of their nemesis in the former Council only a few years ago. Using these methods, Issoudun was rapidly expanded into a shipyard complex from all manner of repurposed hull panels and scrap from the billions of casualties from their ill-fated crusade to Bretonia.

A constant rotation of over-worked technicians, engineers and serfs from Bordeaux boarding, manning and departing the shipyard at all times to keep it near to full-efficiency at all times. The facility is almost always performing intensive repairs to at least one warship, while minor repairs can be performed outside the drydock or while the ship is moored to another facility in the Hebrides.

Large drydock held a battleship inside it: the ship had a huge hole in one of the sides and his once almost silver hull was painted grey, mixed with black, burned spots after energy weapon hits. The burned hull plates around the breach were removed and part of the outer construction could be seen now, sparking like miniature stars from time to time, when workers welded something around the zone, preparing it for mounting new plates over it.

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