Pirate Rage (The Federation Reborn Book 2) by Chris Hechtl

Author:Chris Hechtl [Hechtl, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Self
Published: 2015-12-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

Admiral Irons mused as he looked out at the view. He had paperwork to do, he knew it, meetings to attend, replicators to key access to, meetings to promote junior officers and pass on additional keys … a full docket on his schedule. And that was just the military side. On the other political side, he still needed to finish his cabinet, get the various departments smoothed out, and continue to expand the Federation, weaving the reins of government into everything while also pushing to grow the economy as quickly as possible to support it all.

Yet, here he was woolgathering.

Again.

He shook his head ruefully, tearing his eyes away from the view. He loved it. He loved the view of the yard, even the damaged portions from the Bismark incident. Vestri had made good on the physical damage but hadn't bothered to repaint. Eventually a robot might be detailed to do that chore. Probably more than one. But not now. Everyone and everything was needed to get Bismark back on schedule while also making up for lost time.

Recently he'd kept turning his attention to Pyrax. He wished … oh how he wished! He wished he had the stockpile, the yards, the personnel, all of it here in Antigua, he thought. All of it. Horatio had done good by him, sending him a selection of good yard dogs to act as core personnel, but it wasn't enough. Vestri and his deputies were working miracles, and again, not enough.

Despite the Liberty, Dora, and Victory hulls rolling out of the production lines, shipping was still a headache. Shipping capital ship components to the yards in Pyrax to get the battle cruisers and larger ships out of dock took a lot of time and mass. That was putting a crimp on his revised plans, but shifting to a carrier-based strategy even more so.

It meant building them from scratch, which probably made more sense in the long run. Unfortunately, their mining fleet in the star system was close to the saturation point. He would need to spend a week or two to focus on expanding it he thought.

According to Horatio's timetable, Pyrax would be finished with the second BC squadron by the end of the year now that the BC line was up to speed. But he knew it was a balancing act. As they started to run down on the stockpiled parts for the second squadron, they'd have to pull people out to begin working on new keels. That would slow production, something they could ill afford to do right at the moment or anytime in the future.

But there was no helping it. They couldn't just throw additional people and robots at the problem. Well, robots yes, they could be easily programmed. But people were a different story. Even the robots needed time for their self-learning algorithms to adapt to what they'd been programmed and the reality of the yard.

People were similar in theory but far more complex in real life. They were the crimp in the plan.

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