CYTM2

==Chapter 2 - Can you tell me where can we start over?==
Wreckage of a Factory
Coventry Metal Works
Coventry, Lyran Commonwealth
3006
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They were still putting out fires.  Truk Vanh Ngo sat on the hood of a Rover, his briefcase open, taking notes while Bradford ranted.
"It's not that bad." He said, "The Free Worlders hit pretty hard here, but most of the physical plant can be repaired."
This stopped the chief executive of Coventry Metal Works mid-rant.  "What?"
"I mean, it's going to be expensive, but the damage isn't catastrophic." Truk said, "I'm not the engineer my brother Dinh is, but to me the damaged equipment looks mostly repairable.  I'd say we kinda need Dinh to do the work-or at least, to draw up the work to do... which kinda means we need him out of Blackgate and back working, but this isn't that terribly bad...and I'd kinda suggest throttling back on the rhetoric, sir. That's kind of how my brother wound up being arrested.  Archon Alessandro is absolutely obsessive about 'sedition' and 'defeatist ramblings'.  You don't want to end up on his list, the way my brother has."
"Can't you do the work though?" Bradford asks
"Um, no, i really can't...look. I can send you a few of our people to give it a full insurance evaluation, but some of this equipment hasn't been made since the Star League. That means specialist training even to handle parts replacement, never mind needing fabrication.  Dinh's got that training, He was handling your account before he was arrested by Lohengrin for some comments made in public-HE can fix this, I can't."
He paused, "Still, you should be able to handle making most of the simpler repairs to existing product, even if you can't make the chassis anymore..."
"I'll do what I can, Truk.  We need this line up!"
"I'm sure you do.  Let's talk prices and discounts."
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