Project: [FLG]VG-Mazagran (COMPLETED)

[ambasada.ludozerska]

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Author: Raimund Lavigned
Subject: List of materials

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Putain de merde, finally someone noticed my area of expertise!
I went outside to see the hulk. Good news is, about 1/5th of armor and equipment is in good enough shape to reuse right away or with minor repairs. Bad news is, 80% of a heavy battleship is still a shit ton. Fortunely, we don't have to do everything at once - we'll need to divide the construction into stages for purely technical reasons, and as a side effect we can stagger the deliveries of materials to make them more manageable. Not like it's going to be easy even then...

The first thing we have to get done is the power grid and propulsion - it's both essential if we want to be able to move the ship in case of an emergency, and we'll be unable to place it down with the whole hull in place. That will be the worst part - most of it is gone, and while I convinced Pamiers' crew to pull out the schematics, or at least what's left of them after multiple hardware failures and years of accumulated makeshift repairs, there are some structural differences and we cannot apply them as they are. It still allows us to estimate the amount of components needed though. For now I'll keep the list only to materials needed for the power grid, and follow it up with later stages as the work progresses.

Energy Field Equipment	2 400 tons
Engine Components	3 000 tons
Fusion Diodes	10 000 tons
Heat Sinks	10 000 tons
Magnets	1 600 tons
Superconductors	75 000 tons
Plasfoam Conduits	95 000 tons

Normally, we'd need less of them, but without a proper shipyard we're bound to lose a significant portion of materials to mistakes, accidents or just being unable to reuse the leftovers. Of course there also is a chance I just overdone the numbers as I tried to keep on the safe side, but it's better if we have something in reserve once we're done than if we found ourselves lacking the supplies to proceed.
Anyway, I suggest we start looking for suppliers as soon as possible - the construction is going to take long enough even without waiting for materials, and I have a feeling this is something we'll find ourselves doing a lot in the foreseeable future.

Terminer l'émission,
Raimund Lavigned

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