WCGW Chpt 191

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==Chapter 191 - What Could Go Wrong==
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Thazi (Independent System)
26th January, 3045
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Chief Engineer Vincent Zuniga had spent the last week running every diagnostic there was on the SaRI Jumpship fleet and it was exhausting. He had been forced to totally deadline the Merchant Class Jumpship that had blown out it's helium seal on the last trip. It would not be making the trip to recover the civilians on Onverwacht. He had it slated for immediate trip to Wokha and Major General Mitchell better secure the repair bay for it on the Olympus Station there. He pulled out his pad and made the proper notations on his list.
SaRI Jumpship Fleet
SaRI Express - Invader - Due a 1 month maint check
SaRI Flaming Glory - Invader - Due complete overhaul
SaRI Heavy Lift - Star Lord - Due a 1 month maint check
SaRI Heavy Express - Star Lord - Due a 1 month maint check
SaRI Dark Flyer - Merchant - Due a 1 month maint check
SaRI Star Sailor - Merchant - Due a 1 month maint check
SaRI Deep Raider - Merchant - Due complete overhaul
SaRI Black Voyager - Merchant - Deadlined, Due complete overhaul
SaRI Galaxy Gazer - Merchant - Due complete overhaul
SaRI Void Raider - Merchant - Due complete overhaul
It still allowed them enough ships to safely, or he prayed, complete the mission. The complete overhauls would take at least 6 months to complete while the normal maintenance checks would take a month each to complete. They were looking at a much-reduced tempo of operations for at least a year, possibly more. The only good thing about it the month-long main checks was that they could be performed outside of a repair bay, it just slowed the checks down, but saved the repair bays for the much more complicated overhauls which mandated soundings on the jump cores themselves for undetected micro cracks, a time consuming and dirty job.
The rapid expansion of the SaRI fleet and increased tempo making runs back and forth to Inner End was starting to expose the problem with operating so far away from normal shipping lanes. But it was also his problem and he needed to come up with a way to solve it. A firm maintenance cycle would have to be made and there could be no deviation in that schedule, or they would find themselves right back here again at a later date or the worst would happen. But the other problem was the fact that neither the Invader nor Star Lord Jumpships could receive their complete overhauls from the repair bay on the Olympus stations, they were too big.
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