Plano Outpost

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Plano Outpost Report #2

Plano Outpost in its current configuration, with Merchant Marine vessel Maple Grove and an undisclosed Core vessel moored.

Classification: Confidential

From the Desk of Commander Julius A. Fox, Plano Outpost, Texas

Report to High Command on Progress of Stage 2 of the Plano Outpost Expansion Project

Esteemed Officers of Fleet Materiel Command,

Here I present to you the second report on the status, capabilities and needs of Plano Outpost after its next phase of enhancements, as well as plans for the future for the final iteration of the station.

A security camera feed cuts in - showing the nearly complete modular shipyard at Plano from various angles, with dockworkers welding and hammering away at the support structure, readying it for the first orders soon to come.

Once again, I am pleased to report to you that the progress of the expansion of Plano has been coming at a steady pace, though unfortunately, this time, I cannot say it has been without incident. I will elaborate in detailed report to the Navy Combat Command Accident Board.

Heavily and hastily cut footage showing the remains of a weapon platform is shown, with burnt and twisted metal littering the flight deck.

Sirs, I think you will be quite pleased with the work that has been accomplished regarding Plano Outpost in just a short amount of time. I have been informed recently that the newly upgraded and re-shielded reactor is performing up to level 3 specifications, with room to push it further once the adequate cooling systems are in place. All in, it means we can now support specialized modular wings which require vast amounts of power - such as our soon-to-be completed shipyard, upgraded communications relays, advanced fabrication facilities, and more. Our crew contingent of contracted Ageira physicists have been sounding the alarm on reactor capacity for some time now - I hope their worries are abated.

Further expanding on the recent improvements to the reactor, we had originally hoped that Ageira would be free to service it again as they had done in the past, but as it happens they are stretched to capacity and will be for some time. Consulting with both our lead engineers and scientists as well as our Ageira contractors led us to our solution. They are more than qualified to perform the reactor enhancements if they could procure the requisite materials, with no further human help required. I had heard from my friends at the Registration Office of a new startup opening up and supposed to be soon operating under the aegis of Universal Shipping who would be perfect for the job. I sent a communique to their registered owner, Executive Administrator Williams. He was extremely prompt and willing to assist the Navy in our endeavors and his fee was well within our operating budget. In addition, Mr. Williams privately expressed interest in a guided tour of the facilities of Plano, which I obliged to once the station was in more of a ... polished state.

Our shipyard is currently undergoing final checks for compliance by our contracted partner, Deep Space Engineering. They are experts in all things shipbuilding and I had them in mind for this venture as soon as I learned a shipyard was to be installed at Plano. I have been in contact with their Manager, a Mr. Logan Davis, who has been nothing but a pleasure to work alongside. It warms the heart to see DSE providing stable, worthwhile and productive employment to good, hardworking Libertonians who just want to make an honest wage doing some very hard, dangerous, and dirty work. Deep Space ships have been arriving round-the-clock delivering many of the goods I mentioned in my previous report along with new materials relating to shipbuilding, such as the sensitive equipment required to maintain the stability of energy fields which are critical in ship reactor upkeep. Indeed, without these devices spaceflight might be but the fevered dream of a madman.

The large, obvious happenings at Plano are not all to be pleased with, however. Some of the more minor, recent additions to Plano include more spacious living quarters for both officers and enlisted personnel, an expanded chow hall, and a newly redesigned and improved recreation wing. All of these additions are sure to raise morale, which I admit has been draining in recent weeks as the specter of spending unending months aboard a cramped, gray, sterile station sets in. I do not wish for Plano to one of those posts that new sailors dread to be stationed at. The postings we know all too well, the ones with cripplingly low morale due to hardly edible meals, cramped spaces, along with extreme downward pressure coming from the base CoC, among other divides which have even pushed some sailors to the point of harming themselves. I want Plano to be a post that the men are happy to recommend to their compatriots. To further this goal, the recreation wing includes a generous green space with a small tennis court, a pool, a gymnasium and further amenities more akin to comparable LSF installations.

In addition to the crew accommodation improvements, six more storage and supply compartments have been attached to Plano, providing the necessary space required for the physically large components of the ships Plano Shipyard is due to produce.

Future Plans:

The next and final stage of the expansion of Plano Outpost relies upon our licensure request being granted by the Liberty Government for operation of a level-4 capable reactor. We have yet to send this document in as it requires demonstrable progress with, and safe operation of, a level-3 output-class for an evaluation period before the permits are approved, allowing the boosting the reactor output to level four operation. Once this bit of red tape is behind us, we can finally put the Shipyard at Plano into operation and begin relieving Norfolk of capacity, as was one of our founding goals.

In the Service of Liberty,

Cmdr. Julius A. Fox

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