The Carkadan

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Logbook
Entry_02

January 22, 828 A.S.

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I cannot stress enough how tedious spaceflight is at impulse speeds. So bless whatever genius it was that came up with trade lane tech because I think I would have rather abandoned the Carkadan in the middle of nowhere than travel all the way to Manhattan and beyond without.

We made it to Rochester in one piece and with only one run-in with the law. Honestly, I wonder whether the people the LPI hires and the navy recruits ever bother actually reading the laws they're meant to enforce. Because this lot sure didn't and Isabelle is sure that it almost resulted in the ship getting promptly re-scrapped. But cooler heads - mine, in particular, - prevailed and they let us go.

The Junkers didn't exactly welcome us with open arms, probably because they aren't used to seeing military corvettes ask for mooring permission at their stations, but they let us do it anyway. The promise of credits quickly got them to work on our new home.

Two Vierling turrets, one point defense turret, and a cruise disruptor are all the armament that we were able to salvage. Not much, but it should be enough to deter any lone pirates.

The nose-mounted cannon technically should work but a row of capacitors is broken and apparently the design is proprietary Rheinland military tech. So unless the Kraut navy provides tech support to civilian salvagers, I don't think we'll be getting that gun to shoot any time soon.

The engines are only somewhat busted. The Junkers managed to patch the fuel line but they advised us against engaging the cruise drive until we get it properly looked at. That's hardly going to be an option, so I'll spend what credits we have left and have them fix it up enough to at least run for short bursts. Not like we'll be able to afford much more anyway. Of course, in their desire to be special, Rheinland decided to run their engines with some fuel other than H-fuel. We siphoned enough of it from the other wrecks to last us for a few weeks but where we'll get more once that has run out I don't know. We can't exactly visit Rheinland for a quick top-off.

I had the thought of maybe replacing the entire engine with an open-market model but lo, turns out the entire housing is also a proprietary design. The folks here explained that they don't have the tech it requires so we'll be stuck with this MOX-guzzling monstrosity for now.

At least we finished pressurizing the remaining compartments. No more putting on an evac suit just to get to the latrines.

We will have to figure out a way to earn some credits if we intend to fix this boat up any further. It's turning out to be more expensive than expected and Louise isn't sure whether it's worth the effort. We might just be better off selling it all for scrap.

We'll see.

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Olivia Sable