CYTM1

==Chapter 1 - Can you tell me where can we start over?==
Former Rim Worlds territory
August 11, 2891
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The planet's atmosphere processors didn't survive nearly a century of neglect, and the inhabitants had either died off, or evacuated more than twenty years ago.
Mai Sithers-Ngo stepped out of the shuttle, onto what had once been the parking apron for an industrial concern.  "Let's do this by the numbers guys." she said, "First we sweep the area for signs of other scavengers, then we go in and see if there's anything worth the trip."
She had a slightly different idea of what would be 'worth the trip' than most prospectors.  If there were finished components, they'd be taken too, but she wasn't after those.
The team were here after something specific-something that is normally too large and heavy to haul out.
There were signs of other scavengers for sure-the warehouse was picked clean, and part of the production line had been dismantled by someone with a laser cutter and very little training, but she was patient.
"Hell-oh handsome." on the first sub-level, there it was.
The factory's maintenance shop, and lo-and-behold, the idiots hadn't gotten into it as deeply as they had the Battlemech factory on the main floor.
NC lathes, milling machines, extrusion furnaces and pressure forges.  Hundreds of thousands of tons of machinery with handbooks, notebooks filled with the previous users' adjustments, and maintenance records.
"Found it!!" she cries out 
In the Commonwealth, none of this would sell for much.  The general tooling wasn't that valuable. But this was the tooling used by Republic Industries to manufacture the tooling for a Battlemech factory. The custom tooling, systems that serve as the step from being able to build an engine, and build a fusion engine.
You might say it is the missing link between scavenging for factory spares and selling factory spares.
Or if you didn't want your factory to suddenly become target number one for every armed faction and violent lunatic, the tooling to sell the tooling so some other fool can join the ranks of the 'nuked into oblivion'.
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