"Tartarus"

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INCOMING MESSAGE

From: "Alecto"
To: Faes
Source: Unknown

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Decouvreur is ready

Hey everyone,

our Bustard-class carrier - CV Decouvreur - is finally and completely operational.

Corporations are pretty hard to contact these days, so we took matters into our hands and fitted hangar bays ourselves. It's crudely done, it's less efficient than it should be - but it works now until we get proper shipyard time to do it better. So, our snubfighters have to land slowly and more carefully and improvised machinery takes more space than it should. As for now - our capacity is 20 snubcraft, while theoretical is 30.

Cloaking device looks operational, although we will need some field testing to prove it later. Maybe play hide and seek around Taus to test it? I'm open to suggestions. If it will be working, this will allow Decouvreur to move undetected through hostile and restricted space.

Jump Drive has been fitted and connected to the power grid. With the help from the Grenoble's survivors and insight by our Benefactors, it's somewhat operational. The main issue was fried control core, which had to hardwired to our vessel's computer. As for now, Decouvreur's computer instructs Jump Drive directly and does many of its calculation itself. Great news is that it works - bad news that inputting coordinates is much slower than it should be. Future modifications should be focused on acquiring more potent computer core for our mothership, so it can be done in a faster manner.

Thus, if we need our forces moved somewhere quickly - just give coords, luck and I'll move you there.

We have spare room for 2,200 souls aboard this vessel, several roomy hangars which can be used for snubcraft, cargo, machinery or anything else what you need. It would be nice to equip this vessel with laboratories and medical bays, so it can conduct some experiments on its own, but such scientific equipment is beyond reach for my usual contacts.

Fiona Lacroix
Songbird

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