Robert Wilson and the Invasion from Within by Scott Ruesterholz

Author:Scott Ruesterholz [Ruesterholz, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642939293
Publisher: Permuted
Published: 2021-05-21T14:24:04+00:00

Chapter 15

Jersey City

April 7, 2029

Robert Wilson stands in the basement of the Jersey City Arbor Ridge Headquarters, which is now the headquarters for PEACE. He’s wearing a navy-blue suit with an American flag lapel pin, blue button-down shirt, and no tie. Now that it is time to actually get things done and not simply give speeches, Robert is glad to leave neckties in his closet.

It’s nearly noon; less than twelve hours since this new initiative was created. Robert has barely slept a minute. After reminiscing into the early hours of the night with Mark Morrison and Chris Bailey, the real work began. The tent city that had been occupying much of the factory floor this week has been taken down, and the railway tunnels have been reopened. There is a din of activity on the floor as production resumes, with workers in their blue jumpsuits returning to the positions they’ve occupied for much of the past year building the first fleet of SF-01s. A similar scene is being played out across the other eleven manufacturing facilities under Arbor Ridge towers.

Together, they should be able to produce 500 SF-01s a week, perhaps with supply chain prioritizations and more shifts, it could be pushed to 750. Robert though is seeking 40,000 new jets over the next three months. That’s 13,333 a month, or over 3,000 per week. To get that type of run rate going, the manufacturing of these planes would need to become the global manufacturing priority. To that point, President Victoria Larom had said two days ago that we needed a “whole of America” approach to win this war, leveraging not merely the resources of government but also of the vast private sector.

Consequently, Robert has spent the past few hours talking with executives of large companies to lock-in supply chains. He and the President are taking a carrot and a stick approach to these negotiations. Robert is appealing to their patriotism and the promise of public recognition for their assistance, knowing that if they deny him help, Larom can legally force them to begin production under her national emergency powers. Other world leaders have offered similar assistance. Thus far, the carrot approach has been working. Competing defense contractors have offered their facilities as assembly lines for the SF-01, so Robert is sending senior supervisors from the existing production sites to oversee the ramp-up of activity at these ten new locations. Steel mills from North Carolina to India and China have offered the expedited delivery of fabricated metal to these sites. Chemical producers on the Arabian Sea will begin exporting the necessary product next week as they adjust refinery runs. Auto plants in Germany and Michigan are building the landing gear while Arbor Ridge has set aside video game console manufacturing to exclusively build the communications equipment needed to operate the SF-01 fleet.

Even more quickly than global governments, the world’s private sector is unifying behind a singular mission: to build these planes. By April 14, the first SF-01 off this enhanced production platform will be completed.

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