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“Acting Director, I would advise you to build something that would improve the High Admiral’s faith in you. Fixating on personal obsessions will not win you support nor will it win us the war.”
You grit your teeth and exhale slowly.
“Fine. Solei, bring up the schematic for the Glory class cruiser.”
An image of a large boxy ship appeared on the AR display.
“The Glory Class Heavy Cruiser,” intoned Solei. “Predates most known human stellar nations. Easily maintained, and manufacturable with even a primitive technology base. No wonder it has stood the test of time.” You could hear the admiration in Solei’s voice.
“It’s an obsolete piece of shit,” you spit. “Even without the technology of the Old Empire we can do better than this, <span class="mu-i">I</span> can do better than this!”
You start pulling apart the design.
“Heavy chem-propellant kinetics; useless! First gen capital torpedoes? Might as well send in a Pike!”
You start to rapidly add new modules. In the end you had added shield projectors, replaced the kinetic batteries with single heavy lasers and beefed up the power output.
“And finally!”
You replaced the engines with an array of something you called the Glasner resonance drive.
Solei squinted at the new design.
“Glasner these new engines will be much harder to maintain and unless precisely calibrated will cause control issues.”
“They provide more thrust than conventional drives, and this is a design I have worked with before, I can mitigate those issues with built in diagnostic routines. As long as the engineering crews are properly retrained it shouldn’t be a problem.”
“Even so, this will cause friction to the widespread adoption of this design across the fleet.”
“This new design has less overall firepower than the original, even if it does have greater range, precision and durability,” said Lt. Gale.
“And what good did all that firepower do when you couldn’t even bring it to bear?”
“Do not misunderstand; I believe this design is a definite improvement, but I would be remiss if I did not point out its flaws.”
“I agree with Lt. Gale’s assessment,” said Solei “however I feel the addition of your resonance drive is too much. The shield and armament upgrades alone will provide enough benefit to the Fleet in a shorter time frame.”
>Add shields and change the weapons only. (Quick upgrade)
>Do all changes including the engines. (Takes longer, greater performance, small chance of reliability issues.)
