The Basher
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It was a few hours after their meeting to discuss the Enemy Base which they were now calling the Dark Planet. Gordon reached out to Ship. Ship I have a question for you, he said. Yes, Gordon what is it, Ship responded. Well, I was wondering when you use your torpedoes does it take a great deal of telekinetic energy, he asked? It does, but most of that is supplied by the generators you and your team designed, Ship replied. So if we designed a ship with an interface to allow the use of your torpedoes, it wouldn’t take someone of David’s strength to supply the energy for it, Gordon asked? No, I think even a norm in a 4.0 suit could do it, no offence by the way, Ship replied. No, worries, Gordon said, I was thinking we could make modifications to the Javelin design and make a ship specifically designed to attack multiple ships with your torpedoes. That could easily be done, hold on let me bring David and Emma into our virtual conference room, Ship said, as it reached out to both of them.
Hello, everyone, Ship said, as they were all now sitting in the conference room. Gordon had an idea that I thought we should discuss and we can bring others in if we need to, Ship said. Ok, I was just telling Ship I would like to make modifications to the Javelin design to create a ship that could attack multiple ships with the torpedoes that Ship uses. Ok, that sounds good, does it have to be bigger than a Javelin or does it matter, Emma asked? I don’t think it has to be that much bigger than a Javelin though it will need a pretty good sized surface area for the generators, Ship said. Plus, we will need room for all the targeting and tracking equipment, David added. About that, I think we should have a dedicated pilot and one or two people manning the weapons systems, Ship said. We could remove the cargo bay and make that the weapons control center, Emma said. Yes, actually I think it might be better to have four people on the weapons systems, David said, they have a lot more ships than we do. “If we have each person responsible for the four points of the compass around the ship, and have them cover the region on that side of the ship it might be better. Also it will give the ship more power to draw from”, he concluded.
Yes that would work, we should have a copilot as well, since they will have to maneuver the ship and provide power to the propulsion systems, Ship said. I am thinking we are going to want to make this thing quick and agile, but tough as hell, Gordon said. Yeah, it will need some big engines because it is going to be carrying a lot of weight with the generators required to provide an interface for four weapons systems, Ship said. Yeah, plus I think it needs a smaller weapon on the front and back that can provide a distraction well it sets up the torpedoes, Emma added. This thing is going to be a tank, Gordon said, thinking of a big clunky ship. Remember all of the weapons are just interfaces so it doesn’t have to look like a tank even though it will be one, Ship pointed out. I think we could make the two small guns robotic, use the optics of a robot with extra sensors on a swivel mounted on the front and back, David said, as the thoughts started to come together in his head. Yes, I think a dome shaped sensor array would work on the top and bottom for the main weapons system as well, Ship added.
The design started to take shape in the virtual hologram display. A long sleek nose in the shape of an arrowhead with four huge engines on the back and a bubble in the middle. Yes, I like that, Gordon said, as he explored the design. Emma, can you work with ship to adapt our interface into a weapons system setup to attack ships, David asked. Sure, we are already collaborating on that, she informed him, as the details of the interface started to fall together. The design started coming together as well, and finally they looked at what they had created. They had a few more tweaks here and there but for the most part it was what they all had envisioned as soon as they started talking about the ship.
So soon after the situation with Megan and Emma, David couldn’t help but think about his feelings for both of them. On the one hand this was when it was at its best with Emma, when they were bouncing ideas off each other. He would not want to lose that bound that they had. On the other hand, he wasn’t sure he had romantic feelings toward her. He had always thought of her as one of the guys. Even now as he looked at her and saw how beautiful she was he wasn’t sure if he could ever see her in any other way, or if he wanted to. Megan was another story, now that they had kissed he could not stop thinking about her in that way. He was brought back to the moment at hand, as ship announced that the design was done and ready for final review. They all liked what they saw, it seemed to be ready.