To: Bamburgh Company || From: Bristol C&M

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Sender - Oscar Wright, Bamburgh Co.
Recipient - Pantalião Vascoguoncellos, Bristol C&M
Subject - Palace-Class Repairs

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Dear Mr. Vascoguoncellos,

Thank you for providing an extensive list of faults with the old girl. I passed these onto one of our chief engineers as soon as I received them. I'm happy to say that from first glance it’s good news. None of the issues are too serious, while they look daunting, nothing we haven’t seen before, or so I’m told.

While I would still like our company engineers to inspect the inner workings of your Palace-class, for the meantime getting her moving under standard power will be our top priority. If she were closer, I would recommend mooring her to Kensington, however, we work with what we’re presented.

We have given the issues a numerical value to ease organisation when our team reaches you. I will provide a short run down of the issues with our allotted solution, with any parts that you may require.

1) Failure of Reactor #1 Auxiliary Power Controller

Solution - Replace APC with inhouse equivalent.

Stock - 1x Needed, associated software module included.

2) Failure of Reactor #1 Pressure Gauges 2-5

Solution - Sensors not calibrating. Replace with industry standard.

Stock - 3x Needed, commonly available.

3) Failure of Reactor #2 No.5 Coolant Pump

Solution - Not bled before mothball, replace entire unit. Common issue.

Stock - 1x Reconditioned Unit, currently in storage.

4) Intermittent Failure of Primary Drive Ignition System

Solution - Short in Ignition Control Module (ICM), situated in Engineering, common fault.

Stock - 1x Needed, commonly available.

5) Intermittent Failure of Secondary Drive Throttle

Solution - Known weakness, replace with inhouse equivalent.

Stock - 1x Needed, bypass module for throttle housing needed, 1x.

6) Failure of Auxiliary Helm Control

Solution - Linked to previous fault, see above solution.

These issues are completely standard for a vessel mothballed, as yours was, without following proper procedures. Moisture builds up and corrodes electronics, thus causing issues. These old girls are meant to be alive with people, keeping moisture at bay due to the heat and life support systems. Our proprietary pieces of kit will negate these issues in the future.

I’ve gone ahead and approved movement of these stock items to be brought out of storage, looked over, and loaded aboard one of our vessels. We’ll be able to manoeuvre the larger coolant pump ourselves, our vessel has cargo handling equipment onboard. This should take pressure off of yourself as the chaps at Baltimore won’t be burdened with this task. Even if we need to pull your Palace out of her berth and away from the station, we’ll be able to complete these tasks quite simply. They are not new issues to us, as I said.

Myself and our engineering team estimate that this endeavour will take no more than two days to complete. Our team will be leaving in the next few hours.

The only downside to these issues is the associated costs, which are not small, however considerably cheaper than new units. The total cost of all parts from our (Bamburgh Co.) stock is £134,512.089 cr. As your engineers will be forming the main body of the workforce, labour costs have been eliminated. Parts are priced at inhouse prices we cost ourselves, as per my last.

If all goes well, which it will, Bristol C&M will have a mighty fine vessel in their ranks by the start of next week.

If we can do anything else for you, all you need to do is ask.

Yours sincerely,

O. Wright
Customer Relations, Bamburgh Co.

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