CMDR's log - Defense contracts and upgrades - #02-0004
21 Apr 2021V4KY
- 21.4.3307. -As of right now at the time of writing this report, I'm sitting at Galileo space station in Sol system, taking a small break before I continue collecting the materials I need to upgrade 4 ships. Each unique in its own way, for personal use.
With a cup of coffee to my right and GalNet on my left, I keep reading the news every morning or whenever I have a cup of coffee available. The last couple of weeks were very very chilling and nice to enjoy.
- Using my connections, I've managed to gather more information about CMDR Nyx Vetra. It turns out... I was wrong. The huge credit transactions and trades containing gold and palladium checks out. It turns out it's all clean with nothing shady happening in the background. I've heard that the CMDR is also known for having good relations with big trading companies and suppliers, as well as buyers who buy commodities from her at a very fair price.
- I also went on a little trip around 40kLy away from Sol. Found a lot of terraformable WW's, ELW's and AW's. Discovered and mapped, in the end, sold the data, earned ~350M credits in total. Quite a treat, if I may say.
- The next 6 weeks will be brutal. Me and CMDR Nyx Vetra managed to gather around 7B credits in total to do around 4 Tritium supply runs from The Bubble to DSSA Destiny Ascension. There's a lot of folks who need Tritium and are willing to pay for it, so we are happy to help in anyway possible. A helping hand comes first, profit second.
- The 6 Cobra Mk.III's, purchased 4 months ago had problems. The maintenance crew encountered flaws on all six ships. It turns out the Guardian FSD upgrades we purchased for these Cobra Mk.III's pulled more power than it should from the power plant, in the end, slowly, yet efficiently damaging the other modules. In the end, these ships were rendered useless. We had to dismantle each ship and ship it back to Shinrarta Dezhra. These Cobras were used as patrol ships, in groups of 2, we would have 3 groups covering the area inside and outside the designated system and conduct patrols and research on landable planets, defend against any pirate threats and such, but now, that's just not possible.
However, Core Dynamics reached out to us and offered us something even better. With a contract worth 900M credits, we would get 15 A-class Vulture ships, followed by 30 F63 Condor Rouge F's.
- Armaments are ok, the ships would have 3E pulse laser and 3C multi-cannon, with standard equipment such as 1x chaff, 1x heatsink, 1x point defense, all engineered for ammo capacity and 1x heavy duty shield booster. Optional modules would have A-class fast-charge, reinforced shield generator, a rapid charged, flow controlled shield cell bank, a fuel scoop, module reinforcement package, an AFMU, a planetary hangar bay and navigation computers for supercruise assist and advanced docking. Optional modules engineered as much as possible. As for core upgrades, monstered overcharged power plant, dirty drag drive thrusters, heavy duty, deep plating military composite armor, normal FSD and 3D life support, charge enhanced super conduits power distributor.
- When you combine the price of these ships un-engineered with the costs of engineering materials, and the overall installation of these upgrades, the price is in the range of what was mentioned in the contract. In the end, we signed the contract and are currently in the process of upgrading the ships to what was mentioned above. All to all, it looks promising.
- Shipping these Vultures is another problem. We had to spend around 14M credits shipping EACH Cobra Mk.III, so that's not an option for these Vultures. I've managed to hire another FC to have my Vultures shipped to me, however, this time I've asked Core Dynamics to disassemble each and every Vulture, apply upgrades to all modules, weapons, armor and the structure itself, carefully package them all together and pack them in big cargo containers, isolated completely and protected from any kind of interference, be it human or something else. Ship such as a Vulture is a modular ship, which means it can be easily assembled or disassembled whenever we want, or if there's maintenance to be done, it is easy to disconnect and connect modules, making it much easier for the maintenance crew to do their job more efficiently and less time consuming.
- Each critical, engineered module comes with 2 backup modules, just in case something goes wrong and is the reason why this contract is big, financially speaking. Core Dynamics really wants to supply us with whatever's needed for Deep Space operations to go smooth, without any problems. They assured us everything will go as planned, by procedure and finished before the deadline. It will take 1 month for everything to be done completely.
- With 15 of these Vultures, we can have more patrol groups scattered around the system where Destiny Ascension is. Group of 3/15 equals 5 patrols, or when another Fleet Carrier pops up in the system, tasks are set up to have groups of 5/15, equal to 3 patrols securing the trades between carriers or any delegations visiting Destiny Ascension. As for independent pilots, as long as they request permission to dock, all is good.
- As for F63 Condors, these small fighters would fly around Destiny Ascension and provide cover for the Vultures. Fancy little crafts, modular aswell and very easy to assemble. To me, this looks like something that could last for quite some time.
I just hope I'll be able to complete these tasks as soon as possible, time is not on my side.
CMDR V4KY out.
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