Ships of the Line (The Last Hunter Book 9) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2024-01-12T19:20:18.558000+00:00

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ERIC HAD PLANNED on spending a day touring the shipyards and the cruisers under construction but had ended up spending three days looking everything over in detail. The more he saw, the more he wanted to see, and he realized that this wasn’t something he could rush. He needed to know the capabilities of the ships, the shipyards, and the personnel assigned to build these vessels.

Jack had told him that the people manning the shipyards had been lured into this work thinking they were working for the Navy, and nothing he saw disabused him of that notion. There would always be worries that someone was a spy or a sympathizer for the Poseidon Group, but paranoia was only helpful when taken so far.

Everything critical done aboard the shipyards was checked by multiple groups of people to verify it was done right and that there was no sabotage.

He honestly believed that none of the remaining people harbored any sympathy for the conspirators, but one never knew.

One of the things that Jack had done early on was to bring a couple of the hackers they’d hired from Port Royale to vet the computer system. They need to be certain the plans and data they were working from were uncompromised and that no one could make unauthorized changes or do something to the system that would cause the loss of data or the destruction of equipment.

Since those individuals have been hired from a place that the Poseidon Group had never suspected existed, they only need to worry about more

mundane issues from them. Such as the fact that they were criminals, and criminals did things that regular folk found objectionable. Still, that was an acceptable risk in the overall scheme of things.

The shipyards were a wonder. He’d visited several of them over the years, many of which had been in service for decades or even a century.

None of them were what he would call shipshape by Navy standards, as they were run by civilians to make a profit, and that usually meant cutting corners here and there. Not usually to the ships, but the shipyard was never as clean as what they produced.

That wasn’t the case with these shipyards. None of them were older than five years, and all of them had been scrupulously maintained by people that thought they belonged to the Navy. He approved.

The ships themselves were almost finished. The hulls were done, with the exception of having the bow torn open to build the bore for an antiproton beam weapon. Even the installation of critical equipment was mostly wrapped up. They were pulling out the completed fusion plants to be replaced with ones built to the specifications of the Kingdom of Kastelara, but as they took up roughly the same amount of space, that wouldn’t be difficult.

The installation of a hyperdrive meant they needed extra space on the engineering deck, and that was proving more problematic, though the engineers had found a way around that by gutting a few adjacent compartments.

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