Thors rebirth

[Cellulanus]

Section 3

The Body

Gov. Gruenwalds armoured transport,
on approach to The Ring


Things were going well for her so far, but only just so. Since her talk with Wilhem she has been spending quite some time preforming here usual duty's in both Frankfurt and Munich, but that was all done for now and she could get back to her plan.

In her looking for suitable personnel she came across someone who may be perfect for the job, one Herr Friedrich. He was a quietly accomplished man who has seen much action on the front line and was fortunately currently between ships. She had to take the opportunity to recruit him now or loose her chance forever.

She felt the ship more smoothly into the Rings docking bay and knew that it was time to put on her most charming face, since this wouldn't be easy...


Oder Shipyard,
New Berlin System.



Gruenwald walked down a catwalk overlooking one of the factory units of the Ring that supplied components to Oder. She could see that at the middle of the catwalk there was an elevator that could take her to the control deck of the dry dock, she stepped inside of the elevator and moments later she stepped onto the docks command deck.

Looking around she could see various video screen of the drydock, looked like nothing major was being built today, mostly just fighters and a couple of Gunboats were being slapped together.

She approached the nearest man who didn't look to busy and asked him where she could find Friedrich. He eyed her for a moment before noticing her Governors badge and pointed her in the direction of Drop Hatch one, where they readied parts of new ships for instalment on the ships in the drydocks.

Inside of the Drop Hatch she could see two Daumann dock workers and a man in a military hazard suit who was no doubt Friedrich working on a Valkyries engine. She saw Friedrich rush over and grab a welder from one of the workers.

"No!" he said, "Don't do that! If you do the engine will blow up the second someone enters cruise speed! Here I'll do it since you can't seem to do it right."

She determined that his mood would not improve with time, so she decided that now was as good of a time as any, she begin to approach him.

"Excuse me, Herr Friedrich?"

He replied to her without even looking up "Yes that's me"

"I've been looking at your personnel logs and I-"

Done what he was doing, Friedrich got up and walked to a nearby computer consul, brushing by Gruenwald. "Look Miss, I'm a busy man so spit it out or get out of my way."

"I need some one take command of the repairs of a Bismark."

He continued without stopping his work or looking up, "A Bismark? What would I get out of it."

"You would become its Chief Engineer."

This got his attention, he stopped playing with the computer and turned to face her, "Chief Engineer or a Bismark? Not that is an interesting proposition. Whats the catch?"

"The catch is you'd have to fix it."

"Fix it?"

"I'll be honest with you, its a relic from the Nomad war, it survived, if only by the slimmest definition of the word, and has been stored at a classified location ever since. It's old, its reactors need fixing and a complete retrofitting."

"I'm not sure..."

"Please, you'd not only be serving on a Bismark, but it would be a Bismark you would helped made, what I understand has been a personal dream of yours"

He had a silent moment of thinking before saying. "Heh, you know how to get to me, okay I'm in."

"Excellent, I'll arrange for your transfer imminently, that is if you're not busy here"

"Nothing they can't do without me, lets go then. I want to see this ship...."