Evangeline Anastasia McDowell

[Bazza]

Entry#: 040
Date: 15 - 11 - 817 AS @ 14:25 SUT
Title: Untitled.

It's been rather quiet the last few days. We arrived at Vieques safely and without incident. I had a look over the progress of the Maelstrom. These lads never cease to amaze with the **** they can get done. An entire cruiser, stripped to the bone and made air-tight in under a month.

Of course, I still owe them a few pennies for their effort; but as is the way with Junkers they're all quite happy for me to pay it back with favours and odd-jobs. That and I think a couple of the younger fellows have a bit of a puppy-love thing going. Not helped by the fact I tend to wander around the station in much the same attire as I do on the ship - my favourite shirt that doesn't quite cover the sweeties after it got into a fight with a sharp piece of metal and lost during a "fun" session in zero-G with Misaka.

Putting that aside, the important stage of the rebuild begins now. The propulsion system goes in first. Two big, fat impulse engines bought from a, uh... "charming", "pleasant odoured" "gentleman"... who I met in Cassini; and a series of smaller boosters to assist in turning, from the same bloke.

Running along side those will be two massive power generators I flogged from an industrial auction for a steal. They burn H-fuel and technically speaking are designed for a factory complex. Eh, details. I'll make them fit. According to the auctioneer they will produce close to the same amount of power needed to run a Liberty dreadnought. Not bad considering they were 1/10000th the price.

After that comes the computer matrix. I'll be keeping things relatively simple. Off-the-shelf scanners, radars and control units frankenstein'ed into the shell.

Then, the good bits: Guns n' ammo. Already have a siege cannon and some AAK's lined up.

She holds air at 100% now, damn good effort for something that was shot full of holes only a few months ago.

Gotta go run some errands for the boys to pay my board for the day.

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