Activate Shipyards:

Getting back to work, I’ve come to realize that Darvic shipyards are much more capable than I had initially given them credit for. With some broad repairs and some fine tuning perhaps I can tool one of their shipyards to produce the new ships my team and I have been designing. Granted this is a short term solution which would give us very limited production capabilities. Ideally I’d have enough time to reverse engineer the entire shipyard in order to be able to create new shipyards capable of creating a wide variety of ships, but my time frame for this project is already rather short. Perhaps I’ll designate a secondary team towards reverse engineering while I get some of these old shipyards functioning again.

Working with the rest of the design team has proven to be more difficult in recent days. I find myself constantly on edge, wondering if they know about what I’ve uncovered. Their eyes watch me as I attempt to maintain composure, unsure if they can see through this facade I’ve created. I know I shouldn’t worry but if anyone finds out what I’ve been hiding from them I’ll likely have to disappear, I could never show my face in human territory ever again, even the frontier colonies will be on the lookout for the man who leaked the empire’s secrets, I’ll have to go to some alien world and humans are not treated kindly by the other species of the galaxy.

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I’m trying to keep my paranoia in check but I can’t escape the feeling of impending doom. I must push on with my task, the empire has put its faith in me and so I shall see this job through to the end. The design team has been branching out with a multitude of new designs each iteration more compelling than the last, I’m unsure if these designs will be compatible with the Darvic tooling we currently have available but I suppose we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. For now I will let my team run wild with their designs and we’ll update them to fit our tooling once we get to that point, perhaps we’ll be able to modify the shipyards to fit our needs by then. I’ve also sent word to high command requesting a psychiatrist to be sent out in order to maintain the mental health of the team, obviously this is mainly for myself but I can’t let high command know I’m going crazy so I’ve stated that it’s for the teams mental health and not just for me, I’m sure some others are in need of this anyway.