War on the Horizon

[MarkWarrior]

Force Composition 3007 (Post Big Mac Salvage.)
Jumpships
2 Invaders
2 Leviathans
Dropships
2 Overlords
4 Unions
1 Triumph
2 Buccaneers
1 Pueblo
2 DroST PA refits. (Now colled the Sting class in keeping with the LOTR theme...)
1 Mule
1 Argo
2 Leopards
2 Leopard Cv's
Aerospace:
36 assorted Aerospace fighters featuring SLDF regular, and Succession War variants.
Ground forces
2 Battalions of Mech forces
2 Battalions of Vehicles
1 overstrength Infantry Battalion
1.5 Artillery Battalions
Assorted support craft and repair/refit facilities
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Force Composition 3008/7947 CRC
Jumpships
2 Invaders
2 Leviathans (one modified)
Dropships
2 Overlords
4 Unions
1 Triumph
2 Buccaneers (In process of being modified)
1 Pueblo(Turned into Intelligence gathering platform with Hyperdrive and other assorted tech)
2 Stings (Both with deflectors, Artificial Gravity and class 3 hyperdrive)
1 Mule
1 Argo (Added Artificial gravity)
2 Leopards (Converted into system patrol ships with deflectors)
2 Leopard CVs (Modified and used in conjunction with the other 2 Leopards
Aerospace:
3 Gozanti Class cruisers
36 assorted Aerospace fighters featuring SLDF regular, and Succession War variants.
Ground forces
3 Mech Battalions (Salvage was finally repaired and put into service)
2 Battalions of Vehicles
2 Infantry Battalions
1.5 Artillery Battalions
Assorted support craft and repair/refit facilities

 

[MarkWarrior]

R&D Sidestory 2

"Welcome aboard the Glittering Hub, Major Peterson," Captain Scott Phillips saluted the senior officer.

"I've read the reports, I'm just trying to get a feel for this place," Peterson returned the salute.

"If you've read the reports, then you know we're behind schedule," Phillips sighed. "It took us longer than we expected to get this thing set into a good spot in the asteroid belt. And don't even get me started on how long it took to set up the copies of the Argo's machine shops in their proper places."

"We're not worried about the setbacks right now," Peterson reassured the other officer. "I am going to be asking a few questions though."

"I'm ready to answer any questions you and the Colonel might have," Phillips replied. "I was nervous that I was going to be pulled from project lead for a while because of the setbacks."

"We don't have the officers to spare on that sort of thing right now," Peterson shrugged. "Now, that doesn't mean that you get to slack off, soldier. But you do have a little bit of breathing room."

"Understood, sir," the captain replied. "Now, I take it you want a quick tour?"

"No," Peterson grinned. "I want to get the full tour and I'm going to be staying for a week or so to look over things. I get to be in charge of setting up the half that we're going to be using for training purposes. And I need to get a feel for this station."

"Understood," Phillips nodded. "Then I guess we should start with the factory side and then move over to the training half."

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"Now, the first factory section is going to look a bit odd," Phillips warned Peterson. "We were still figuring out how to set things up and while it works for now, we're going to have to tear it down and rebuild it after we finish the rest."

Against one of the walls is a trio of automated machine shops that are building the required tools and pieces for the spare parts factories.

"They look fine to me," Peterson muttered. "I don't see any problems."

"They're on the verge of falling apart," Phillips sheepishly scratched the back of his head. "We rushed putting them together because we were already behind on our timetable and now we're stuck with it unless we want to fall even further behind."

"As long as it works to get the job done," Peterson sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose to stave off the incoming headache. "But I would rather you take the time to strip them down and rebuild them properly than have them down for a longer period."

"I'll talk to the lead engineer and see how much downtime it will take," the Captain shrugged. "It's worked so far though."

"Work on getting it fixed," Peterson eyed the machine shops. "I don't want any of our people getting injured or dying due to a fault somewhere."

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"We've got the first of the spare parts and munitions factories up and running, but we're currently testing the build efficiency before continuing."

"What are we working on first?" Peterson asked.

"Actuators, turret replacement parts for the tanks, some LRM, SRM, and Autocannon ammunition as well. But these are our first production runs before we see how much we can really produce."

"How is the quality testing going?"

"We've had some defects," Phillips admitted. "But we're still working out the kinks. Give it another few months and we'll be churning out parts."

"And the Small arms and Mithril?"

"The Mithril factory we just took out of the Mule that it was nested in and moved it aboard," Phillips explained. "That project isn't under my scope so I normally leave it be. And as for the small arms, there haven't been any issues there. We're still QC testing before moving into mass production, but so far they seem to be running without any issues."

"Good to hear," Peterson picked up one of the rifles laid out for testing and shouldered it. "Feels like the one I've got in my kit, seems like it's put together solidly too."

Peterson field stripped the rifle to examine some of the internal components.

"This part is going to need to be looked at," Peterson pointed at one of the parts of the trigger mechanism. "On the original rifles, this is one of the possible failure points. If we can fix that then it'll make me feel a bit better."

"I'll make sure the report gets generated."

"I think we'll call it a day," Peterson glanced around. "You're doing pretty good work up here, Captain. Keep it up."

"Thank you, sir, I'll start working to get some of the issues you noted sorted out."

"Take your time, son," Peterson replied. "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast."