Rogue Huntress

[Tenacity]

<... Location: Bastet Supply Station, Unknown, 0800 Hours ...>

The blast door to the engineering section swished open as Aki walked through, going from a short and thin hallway to a massive room dominated by the Carrier's reactor core. Various ramshackle power cables made of a purple, crystalline material laced through and around the core, linking up to a large device at the side of the room constructed of purple crystal and a gold-like metal. Aki approached the chief engineer, Major Damien Brown, who was busy attempting to string new wires between the reactor and the alien device.

Damien saw her approach and snapped to attention with a salute, "Ten-Hut! Admiral on Deck!" he shouted, as the rest of the engineering crew followed suit.

"At ease Major, how are the repairs on the hyperdrive coming along?" Aki said, examining his work.

"Could be better, the synthesized power cables we've been using seem to burn out after a few jumps, gotta replace 'em at least once a day. We need to find some material capable of handling the power load."

Aki sighed, "What about the cloak?"

Damien shook his head, "Pretty much the same story, ma'am. The ship's power supply isnt enough to keep the cloak running for more than a few seconds... we can handle the hyperdrive if we get stronger material for the cables, or a new uplink system, but we need an entirely new power core for the cloak to work."

"Wish we could find a K'vosh reactor, the only thing i know of that could handle the power load is a nomad power cell, and I will not bring one of those things onto this ship... are the weapon capacitors still functioning?"

"Perfectly, we've had no problems with the new weapon modifications outside of having to watch the power drain a little more closely than we did before. Shields are the same story, the K'vosh tech takes a little jury-riggin to get working, but power supply withstanding it seems to work well with our own systems."

Aki nodded and turned back towards the blast door, heading to the supply depot airlock, "Keep working on it Major, I'll see what I can do about power handling materials, perhaps the Zoners have something better."

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[Bastet Systems Report]

Modified Systems List:

-Daam K'vosh Jump Drive-
The jump drive, salvaged from a K'vosh vessel found wrecked on an unknown planet in the Chester system, is capable of temporarily opening stable jump holes between two locations. Jump holes may be opened as far as 5,000 Parsecs apart (16,300 Lightyears) with ample power supply. The jump drive used by the Bastet allows the Carrier to move between distant systems instantaneously, and the target jump location is accurate down to three meters. Due to low quality materials being available for the power cables which connect the Jump Drive to the Bastet's main reactor core, the jump drive's connections must be repaired after every 4 uses.

-Daam K'vosh Cloaking Device-
The cloaking device used by the Bastet is directly tied to her shield generators. By projecting an EM field, the cloaking device is capable of bending both light and higher forms of energy around the vessel, preventing it's detection by both visual means and by sensors. This device functions in a near-identical manner to nomad cloaking devices, though it is not an organic tool like most nomad technology. Due to the high power demands of the Cloak, it can only be kept active for 10-15 seconds at a time on the supply of the Bastet's reactor core.

-Enhanced Shield Capacitors-
Through the use of several force-shield emitters obtained from artifact smugglers and re-activated by the key, the Bastet's shield strength and recharge rates are vastly improved from their original specifications. These emitters were originally designed by the K'vosh for small scale use, and as such are not on par with true K'vosh shield generators, but they are still a step above human technology available at this time.

-Enhanced Weapon Capacitors-
Similar to the Force-Shield Emitters, the Bastet also carries numerous K'vosh power capacitors, attached directly to each weapon system on the vessel. These Capacitors allow for more energy storage than standard Order weapon capacitors, and thus are capable of providing more power-per-shot to the Carrier's turrets and heavy guns. The most notable side effect other than increased weapon potency is the strange appearance of the projectiles fired by the Bastet's turrets which, due to their altered power structure, no longer appear as standard Order equipment.

[End Report]

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