Xyran took note of the information then thought about things, "How about the Verian Fighters that came in?"

  The Tech nodded  at the Verian fighter  reference ...The Leader of the Blue Verians, From the planet  Uden... brought them here... The    other Verians, won't share  much tech.... Now  we  got some  Verian CAp ships and transports ..  and those  fighters... They aren't  as  armored  as  ESN  fighters, but  are fast?..

Xyran took more notes, "As i came in the other day i noticed even less mechs then before on the hanger dec has anybody inquired about them by chance... or they stop research and development on them altogether?"
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  The Tech  shook his head,been some issues ,  they cleaned out some guys.. some promising guys  got transferred to the Colonies ..They had  two guys still hangin around....  That Big  guy keeps  trying to  do things  with Mechs?..but.. mechs   don't help you unless you board a   Hamger  Dec ... They are a little help on the Ground?

Xyran gave the tech a odd look, "On the ground they do a great job on clearing rooms and supporting the boarding teams with heavy firepower that the tanks and aircraft cant get to, we are at total war and i feel we shouldn't disregard something that can save lives just because it isn't as popular as the new issue tanks or hammers"

----> From Hanger Dec

Zob had a rather silly idea in his head but if anybody thought it was possible it would be the techs, he approached one of them that wasn't to busy, "Who should i talk to about a possible weapon design?" it had been a long time since he had been in here and he wasn't all that good with names.

 Zob would see  the techs were  working on some damaged areas.. , none of those  there  seemed to have been here, last time.

 a Thin liuttle fellow with thick glasses   looked at him,Well SGT?  that5's where  all weapons start..don't they?.. an  Idea in someone's  head...what have tou got?

Zob looked down to the thin guy and smirked, "Would it at all be possible to make a man portable version of one of the mech miniguns say from one of the arms or something?" he explained he wanted to find a way to be able to send more death down range.

  The Fellow thought  for a Moment..well? it  would be  heavy... lets  see.. you'd need  a  back pack to  hold  thje ammo  belts... unless it was a Pulse  weapon, then you'd have the  powercells hooked up...

   You could have  Like that  did  in the old old  days.. a handle on top..  and the  Trigger..it would still be heavy... he  was  sketching ideas  , showing a person with a big block , back pack on , with the belt  comign  from under the   arm, from the top of the  pack..

  Let's  see... if... if  we  made is so the barrels  where there, and the   weapon hand   could slide in, almost like  a shield?.. You'd need at least three supports in the  . metal  or thick webbing......

  You need the  barrels  housed, so  objects  could get in and Jam the  Gun.. were lookign at.. roughly? 200 Pounds of  Gun...another..maybe  75 in the back pack?

 we could use   Aluminum  or   Occui 'steel' for the barrels and the    housing.. that would  cut the  weight  down , say...110?

 he showed him the sketch,what ideas   do you have?

Zob glanced over the design and pointed, "This thing will be heavy no matter how its designed but its made with me in mind and i know i can handle the weight rather easily... actually i think you have the weights reversed the weapon would be about 80 and the backpack would be 200 cause of the ammo stored in it, it will need to be coolant cooled like the 60 caliber or those barrels will overheat way to quickly"


Zob then thought about the metal, "Yes using a Aluminum alloy would work well in this case get the best of both worlds, i'm not a fan of that Occui steel being quite honest with you"

  The little guy held up a Pen,we  can, indeed use the  came coolant we use  for the  Fighters, Habe it  recycle through the Pack?.. but, if  we make it  air  cooled  it  would save on weight , and you can alsways  spin down when the barrels start getting red.  You may have to have a hnadler  carry   barrels...or, at very least , repalce the bareels  after   each op?

Zob nodded his head, "Lets stick with the air cool and if it don't test well we can always redo it with the coolant in the future"

 I think that is a good  move..yhou don';t have to worry about  collant, or  a stray round taking out your fluids...

Zob took a deep breath, "So do we have enough to build a working design?" he asked.

  The Tech looks  over his  sketch...we'll get a  spare  mech Minigun arm and  see what we  can do.... Regardless of how  highly you  view  your ability to carry  the thing, It  will be taxing, and  you might have to learn to   run, and even march with  it.

 Give us  a day. maybe two, once we get the   arm, and  I will COM you.

Zob shrugged a bit, "Well it's like that with anything until you start to adapt then it becomes much easier... but any case sounds good I look forward to trying it out and thank you for your time"

With his peace said he decided to head up to the rec Dec after making a quick stop back at his quarters to change.

----> To rec dec

-----> From QM locker

Zob wanted to check up on the status of the minigun to see if they had a working model ready yet or not. When he arrived he found the same tech he spoke with last time, "How goes progress on the minigun?"

  The Tech smiled at Zob...Ok?.. we got it  feeding  right, we have  it aircooled to  cut  down on the weight?.. I mean?.. it doesn't matter  how strong you are if  some one  draws a bead on you..you want to be  able to  dive out of the way..right?... we have one more  tweak..where the Belts  go in from the  canister.. we  want to  keep it open a bit  so you can feed in  fresh Belts  one at a time, after the canister is empty..... if you take this aboard a ship.. when you done,,you're  done

 ..now..this is a Planet Drop...so there will be beach  heads with CPs... you can COM in for a new  canister..but?..who know s  how soon they will find you.

Zob shrugged, "Such is the way of things, then again this is meant for open ground combat and home defense here on the hanger dec... do we have a range or area we can test this monstrosity?" He asked.

You can take it to the Range at the   Football field? he looks around a bit  then adds,..if you have  access to The Black Hanger, i hear they have a range as well?

Zob nods and moves over to the bench and looks over the weapon, "What a fine piece of death we got here" he said with a grin on his face as he mounted the weapon it was fairly heavy all things considered and would take some getting used to, "Thanks for the work I'll put this to good use for sure"

He then took himself and the weapon down to the black hanger.

-----> To black hanger

------> From Hanger Dec

Zob had an assortment of weapons with him as he made his way into the tech labs, "I got some goodies for you folks" he then laid out 1 of each type of round from the Ender, "Think we could replicate the rounds for mass production? also could i use a workbench"

 The lead  Tech,  Lt  Greyson,  Looked at the  rounds. Hello SGT, well?...  the casing is the  thing..once we get that set, the  projectile  shouldn't be all that  hard, we could  end up, ..depending on material , churn out   50 or  so  a day here?.... then  we  could  send  a Master  mold for the casings  and  projectiles to the  QM manufacture  ships?.. they could  crank out more?.... but if you're looking in house?... i'd  say   55 on a good day..45 on a bad?

  ..you can go   down to  area 16?.. i thnk you used that before.. if  you leave anyhting there   unfinished andplan to Return, Make the  White  board abover the  main table.

Zob nodded and took a empty cart and placed the weapons on it and pushed them down to station 16, where he began his work he made sure to shoot a message to Melia to notify her where he was at.

After spending what seemed like several hours, Zob finished the modifications and began to clean up the workstation before heading on out back to SEC.

-----> To SEC