Procurement Meeting (ask first)

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Anaara Clandestine"]

As it happened, the Gravity Lattice tech fit some Uukaablian needs, the Kathol Republic had been looking for something a lot like Saotome Variable Plating, and the Fallanassi Upgrade just looked like fun. Jorus didn't have purchasing authority for member states of the Coalition. He did, however, have a lot of their procurement people on speed dial.

OOC/
Major Faction contracts so far:

Sasori/Saotome: Ship components
Kiribi: Freyja communications system

 

[John Locke]

John let the edge of his lips curl up into a friendly smile as he inclined his head at the Twi'lek, recognising someone else to whom the board meeting was a new experience. It had only been recently, as he started to push and expand his company that he had started to realise how important they were, but then he'd never actually had a board before. Part of him knew that it was a sign that he'd reached a certain level, that his was now a true company, but he still mourned the loss of freedom when he was the only one in charge.

Reaching down to tap his fingers against his datapad the engineer turned executive nodded and smiled, "I'll pass you over my comm codes now, feel free to contact me when you're ready. I can promise you that Locke and Key Mechanics would be very interested in opening a conversation with you regarding supplying the Freyja system for your use."

[member="Anaara Clandestine"] | [member="Jorus Merrill"] | [member="Natalie LaForte"] | [member="Fiolette Yvarro"] | [member="Jyoti Nooran"] | [member="Kalla Caranthyr"]

 

[Fiolette Fortan]

"If anyone's been through the First Order as of late, you'll notice that they've got a lot more stations." A pause, "the new Galidraan II defense station and sector command, built and designed after the Galactic Alliance's incursion into First Order space at the Anoat Sector." Fiolette held up a hand a moment she was getting somewhere with this surely. "What I learned from that incursion was that I needed a way to detach part of my hulls, you see, there were boarding pods that they used that ended up spacing a lot of civilians."

"So."

"We created a type of lock and seal that we could detatch at the press of a button, in the same way I'll be utilizing that technology for the Wexley." She looked at the Twi'lek directly and continued to talk while she shifted her weight from one leg to the other. "Only now of course we're looking at detatching the inside and we're looking to make sure we can put the insides back on, once we're done with our emergency ops. So we'll be looking at lighter materials that will hold to the same strength but with the same, button pop and drop mechanisim."

Super hot carrier was probably the best way to describe the Wexley. She certainly didn't fit the mold for what Jorus was looking for but she would do. Fiolette was more interested in Caranthyr's ship if she were to be perfectly honest and doing her best to avoid eye contact with Nooran. Past experiences with KSA would resurface and she didn't want to let that influence her tongue while at a procurement meeting.

With that Fiolette took a step back further and looked down at her fatigues, if and when the war came to greet the ORC. She wanted them to be ready, knowing full what either Imperial nation would have to throw at them, she wondered when it would be good to politely excuse herself for lunch and to finish the transition from Dosuun to Zonju V for Primo Victoria's headquarters.

[member="Jorus Merrill"] | [member="Jyoti Nooran"] | [member="John Locke"] | [member="Anaara Clandestine"] | [member="Natalie LaForte"] | [member="Kalla Caranthyr"]

 

[Natalie LaForte]

Natalie responded almost immediately following the criticism sounding almost aggressive in her tone of voice.

"The idea is to have much more than one ship in any engagement at a time." Realizing how loud she was speaking, she apprehended herself, making her tone more soft. "The ship has essentially forwent any of its armament in favor of its modular design along with extensive hanger capabilities, how many squadrons that is capable of I'm unfortunately unable to tell you due to the fact we've conceptualized the ship entirely for the Coalition, so it's production is dependent on this deal. Of course, if you want a model of it presented I could throw it in along with a few free samples for whatever use you feel is needed."

Of course she wasn't throwing in those samples simply because she was feeling nice, with the estimated cost of the ships being so incredibly low most of what was needed to produce them was already in several IMF storage facilities and just needed assembling.

"I'd also be willing to throw in a 80% reduction on any other starship model available on our marketplace should you accept our offer, along with covering the cost of the squadrons for the first 10 ships."

[member="Jorus Merrill"] I [member="Jyoti Nooran"] I [member="John Locke"] I [member="Anaara Clandestine"] I [member="Kalla Caranthyr"]

 

[Jorus Merrill]

As [member="Natalie LaForte"] wound down her presentation, Jorus raised his eyebrows and started looking through IMF's starship offerings in earnest. They had a taste for using primitive nuclear drives as backup systems, he noted, and you could get basic radioisotopes cheap in some parts of the Rim. The Cosmic was a decent carrier at heavy cruiser scale. The Galactic was a midsized cruiser minmaxed for defense. The Queen droid control ship was seriously situational but looked like fun. The Aegis struck him as unusually durable for a quick light courier. And that spaceframe was flat-out gorgeous.

The open-ended hangar capability, to support the detachable secondary hull, made him and Shenna glance at each other. That raised the IMF's potential utility pretty well, especially because a ship like this really would be ideal for a couple of common Rim missions. Planting small colonies, for example. The IMF's proposal might not be a frontrunner for this procurement contract, but the Coalition might well wind up buying a few of these transports.