The Science of Mayhem

[Lemon]

//Journal Entry number: 4

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A MIXED RESULT
My team and I have spent countless hours near Salme Protoplanet, trying to harness the destructive powers that lied there. While shooting, bribing or wamboozling with diplomacy those that interrupted us.

Massive amounts of data have been transmitted to our engineers operating from our secret production base that were working round the clock with one goal in mind:
To create a massively destructive weapon. Some of our engineers had access to Hellbore-type class cannon blueprints, and the attempt was made, using the data on the destructive forces around Salme, to create a faster, more compact Battleship weapon that could at the same time produce more powerful destructive yields for maximum mayhem. They are not exactly known for safety protocols and almost blew our secret production facility in the process up.

FAILURE TO DELIVER
Perhaps we rushed things, perhaps we need to analyze the data and apply them better, but we failed to build what we set out to build...Instead we have a weapon that is very powerful, but sadly nowhere near the power or range we intended.

My Engineers tell me it has a range of just 2750, 30,000 Hull and 15,000 Shield damage per shot - underwhelming yields for a battleship weapon, sadly.

TIME TO ADAPT
This was the first attempt with the Salme data, and we shall keep trying. Two prototypes of this weapon don't seem worthy of being deployed to the most savagely aggressive players of The Galaxy, and we might as well recommend them being mounted on Battlecruisers instead of a Battleship.

And as for the pawns we will choose to carry out mayhem with these weapons? We will probably choose one of the less-brutal rebels in one of the houses, that wouldn't be worthy of the most destructive weapons we will hopefully one day concoct, but that still cause moderate mayhem. That is yet to be decided.

Now it's just time to polish these weapons, assign them a name, and dear diary expect my next entry to tell you where we sent our stealthy unmarked ship with these moderately unsuccessful prototypes for our mayhem causing intermediaries to "find" them.

As for me - it's time to get back to the drawing board and continue the research. I will give the Salme data a few more chances, and potentially move on if we don't manage to create a truly deliciously horrifying mean of destruction.

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