Old Ships Suck:
I can’t believe the job I’ve been tasked with today, those idiots in High Command want me to update the designs for every ship in our navy. I wish I could call them idiots to their face but if I did I’d be tried for treason and given a death sentence for sure. Anyway these mudbrains thought it’d be a brilliant idea to update ships that are, oh I don’t know, roughly four millennia old. I’m sure I could come up with the designs for the ships pretty easily, at least over the next few years would be no problem, which is what I told them of course, guess I’m an idiot too. The problem is that no one has built any new ships for our empire in four-thousand years, most of our shipyards are in decay and the ones that aren’t are only ever used for ship maintenance, which is an automated process anyway.
No one actually knows how to work on these ships, nor does anyone know how to build ships anymore. We’ve become complacent in our status as the most powerful navy in the galaxy for quite some time, and now that we’ve actually faced some resistance we can’t even build more ships to replace our losses, it seems like we’re screwed to me. The Darvic peoples that were once considered the best ship builders, and were one of our closest allies, have been wiped out by our foolish leadership ages ago, it’d sure be nice to have some of them around now. Basically I’ve been tasked with single handedly pulling an empire out of a four-thousand year decline, a task that most would consider impossible, luckily for me I have some ideas. If I’m going to be able to pull this off I’ll need to gather a team of curious individuals, a lot of them, who will go to what was once the Darvic home world. Once there this team will dig up anything and everything related to shipbuilding, if we’re going to have even a slight chance of pulling this off in time we need to know the Darvish secrets to building ships, they built our super dreadnoughts after all. High Command gave me some old design documentation for all of our ships but they are woefully uninformative, perhaps if we can find some Darvish documents for the same ships we can cross reference them with our own documents to perhaps figure out exactly what these old design docs are really saying. I’ve got my work cut out for me, without a doubt, but the more I think about the situation, the more I have hope that this will work.
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