Darth Viscera
Jun 9th, 2001, 06:02:24 AM
OOC: Just RPing the construction of a 17.5km ESD which will be the Imperial flagship, sort of an Air Force One type thing for the Empire. http://pub24.ezboard.com/fgalacticmilitaryalliancefrm1.showMessage?topicID= 16.topic
IC:
The laborers worked feverishly at their posts, supervising construction droids and at times even laboring themselves. The work was tedious. The Agamemnon had been laid down as a Super-Star Destroyer Mark III, heavy-type. It was to be similar to the Executor in its size, the modern Imperial systems and the fact that it was an Mk. III being the only differentiating factors.
Five months into its construction, however, the Diktat had changed his mind. He wanted an ESD instead of an SSD. The hulls were not too dissimilar, as an ESD was 17.5 km long, and the SSD a proposed 17.6km. The shipyard boss had set to work designing the modifications which would enlarge the primary hull to accomodate the downword-protruding keel. It had taken three nights of subsisting on pure coffeine from Balmorra, a marvelous substance he had been recommended to by a glit-biter from Kessel.
The spaceframe was beginning to take shape. Once the structure was complete, the internal systems would be installed from bow to stern, then the external coverings which would make it spaceworthy would be added. As it was now, it appeared to be a mal-formed wireframe of heavy durasteel.
He had ordered the superlaser from Tierfon. It had been a peculiar comm-call, the Construction boss of the factory world insisting that such a thing would be monumental to produce. Indeed it is, he had replied. You are being paid to produce a monumental weapon capable of vaping entire worlds, and I expect the laser to arrive at this shipyard in fourteen months. If it arrives at this shipyard in fifteen months, the Diktat will be notified, and most likely you, my friend, will find yourself digging transverse trenches at Fatasshi.
After that little encounter, he quite expected that the weapon would arrive in thirteen months.
IC:
The laborers worked feverishly at their posts, supervising construction droids and at times even laboring themselves. The work was tedious. The Agamemnon had been laid down as a Super-Star Destroyer Mark III, heavy-type. It was to be similar to the Executor in its size, the modern Imperial systems and the fact that it was an Mk. III being the only differentiating factors.
Five months into its construction, however, the Diktat had changed his mind. He wanted an ESD instead of an SSD. The hulls were not too dissimilar, as an ESD was 17.5 km long, and the SSD a proposed 17.6km. The shipyard boss had set to work designing the modifications which would enlarge the primary hull to accomodate the downword-protruding keel. It had taken three nights of subsisting on pure coffeine from Balmorra, a marvelous substance he had been recommended to by a glit-biter from Kessel.
The spaceframe was beginning to take shape. Once the structure was complete, the internal systems would be installed from bow to stern, then the external coverings which would make it spaceworthy would be added. As it was now, it appeared to be a mal-formed wireframe of heavy durasteel.
He had ordered the superlaser from Tierfon. It had been a peculiar comm-call, the Construction boss of the factory world insisting that such a thing would be monumental to produce. Indeed it is, he had replied. You are being paid to produce a monumental weapon capable of vaping entire worlds, and I expect the laser to arrive at this shipyard in fourteen months. If it arrives at this shipyard in fifteen months, the Diktat will be notified, and most likely you, my friend, will find yourself digging transverse trenches at Fatasshi.
After that little encounter, he quite expected that the weapon would arrive in thirteen months.