Looking under the hood

[Torment]

Rhodes Shipyard

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It took a while for Montgomery Mcintyre to adjust to the sudden silence, it had been months since he hadn't heard the ever present humming of the Torments engines, felt the vibrations through the battered hull of the ship. Not that this station didn't have its own challenges; everywhere he looked he received murderous glances from Corsairs or heard a brawl somewhere around the corner. That said, at least his Corsair 'counterparts' seemed somewhat open to collaboration.

It quickly became apparent that examining the blueprints for the 'Murmillo' class was competely off the table, leaving only a single alternative on the table: a grueling manual examination of the ships engines, and trusting on input from the Corsair Engineers.

Montgomery looked around with an odd sense of surrealism once he was onboard the Parabellum; the combination of outdated liberty tech and what he assumed was Corsair tech was an odd sight to say the least. As the task at hand was to assess the degree of influence Liberty tech still had on the design, the tour was not contained to just Engineering, giving the Torment team a unique insight of the inside of the vessels. "Doubt maybe people have seen the inside of one of these." Montgomery murmured to himself, earning a grin from his Corsair colleague who added: "Not willingly, gringo." The crew continued, a silent prayer in their minds for those poor unfortunate souls that might have been captured and taken onboard over the years.

After the tour concluded and the general state of the vessel, which had already been determined by the crew of Rhodes Shipyard, was shared, the real work could finally begin. Based on their findings at the end of the day, the Torment team estimated the Parabellum to consist of roughly 60% Corsair technology and 40% on replicated, outdated, Liberty technology. The latter was likely baked so deep into the design that it was practically impossible to get rid of without building a brand new ship from the ground up.

Fortunately, the Engines of the Parabellum seemed to be almost unchanged from its original Liberty design, meaning that even if they ended up having to build a completely new engine, an upgrade could still be feasible. The next phase would be to test the engines for their current performance and compare the findings to Insurgency standards. That however, would wait till after a nights rest.

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