Lira sat on the floor in a massive Hangar Bay empty save for a small prototype airframe, herself, and a large engine pod that was hoisted into the air on a stand in front of it.
Mindlessly the young woman stared at the engine, her eyes were listless and tired, and her mind seemed to have glazed over into nothingness. She had hit a roadblock. A massive duracrete wall that stood in between her, and what she had been assigned to do. Puzzlement splayed across her face, and the spanner in her hand was in serious threat of simply falling by the wayside. A frown settled on her lips, and she shook her head, clearing her mind.
The Engine in front of her was of a brand new design.
She had taken components from a Standard Twin Ion Engine, as well as several other small fighter craft engines that she had found laying around in the temple. She had added internal compensators, additional power lines, and several new thrust agents that should all serve to make the Engine far more efficient and increase its power output by quite a bit.
However there was a problem.
She couldn't get it started.
Her skills in mechu-deru did not extend into the cosmos yet, most of the things she was doing were purely based on instinct and trial and error. Every once in a while she received a flash of the miraculous, some breakthrough that had allowed her to make a great leap forward. It had happened like that with the reactor, but now...
Lira was stuck.
Mindlessly the young woman stared at the engine, her eyes were listless and tired, and her mind seemed to have glazed over into nothingness. She had hit a roadblock. A massive duracrete wall that stood in between her, and what she had been assigned to do. Puzzlement splayed across her face, and the spanner in her hand was in serious threat of simply falling by the wayside. A frown settled on her lips, and she shook her head, clearing her mind.
The Engine in front of her was of a brand new design.
She had taken components from a Standard Twin Ion Engine, as well as several other small fighter craft engines that she had found laying around in the temple. She had added internal compensators, additional power lines, and several new thrust agents that should all serve to make the Engine far more efficient and increase its power output by quite a bit.
However there was a problem.
She couldn't get it started.
Her skills in mechu-deru did not extend into the cosmos yet, most of the things she was doing were purely based on instinct and trial and error. Every once in a while she received a flash of the miraculous, some breakthrough that had allowed her to make a great leap forward. It had happened like that with the reactor, but now...
Lira was stuck.