Solarans 1: The Gift From Aquarii by Don Koch

Author:Don Koch [Koch, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Goodreads: 33419711
Published: 2016-12-17T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15 - Betrothal Marathon

# Juneau #

# Tuesday, July 5

Josè contacted Andy to advise that Mexico wanted to accept the Solaran offer to build their new facility on Isla Maria Magdelena very much as described. They liked the efficiency of what they had seen in the plans and felt that it would work nicely. Currently they were using tents provided by the Army and those were already crowded. Josè went on to say that they had already put the prisoners to work preparing the site. He noted that the island was mostly rock and leveling sites in some locations was giving them some grief but it was progressing. Josè noted that so far they had staked out the layout for 50 compounds that would give them a capacity of slightly over 108,000 prisoners. There was room on the island for at least another 50 compounds but they felt that the 50 would be more than sufficient.

Andy pointed out that they had a number of new Solarans who were ready to start training in solar absorption and redirection. “This might be just the ticket to show them some of what they have available to them. Besides those containers will need some foundation steel to interlock the units in the stack. These will need to be embedded in bedrock. On those sites that are ready, we can help with the site preparation. We will order the construction of the modular container units today. We should be able to start delivery and placement of the units in about 10 days. Just as critical is the water desalinization plant and the sewage treatment plant. Contracts for both are ready. And we will get those going pronto. We will be delivering some temporary modular units today for the sewage treatment needs. I see that your Navy has supplied some ships to help with the water supply. It is still going to take a bit of time to stabilize supply and demand. We will also be hiring consultants to assure quality control on these efforts. We will start delivering supplies for construction of the dining hall/training facility/recreation hall. The stockpiles of material and equipment are going to grow quickly. You will need to identify prisoners with the needed construction skill sets. They should understand that this is where they will live so they have some control over the quality they bring to that.”

“This design has our people pretty excited. They believe it may be a model for other applications including affordable housing.”

“Actually, some of this notion came not only from the terrorist army but also from people that have done exactly as you say. There have been some fairly nice conversions done for just that purpose. You would be amazed at how nice they are. That may be just the thing for the staff here.”

“We will have growing pains for a bit, but that is to be expected I suppose.”

“I think you will be pleased at how quickly this will come together. In four months, the construction at Isla Maria Magdelena will be pretty much completed.

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