Keep it, I hope.
They just sold 18 collars.
This gives them 6 back.
That means they still need 12 collars to fill that gap, again.
Lets hope it was resently, that it had it's upkeep.
If they can help it, either keep everything from now on or concentrate on getting some fabrication ability.
A jumpship trade route, might actually be good for them.
Especially if they can get Mammoths for said good transports.
Boeing Interstellar Gallax(?) is about to shut down the fabrication of the Argo, Cargoking & Cargomaster, hopefully, they can get all the related stuff, for cheap.
Bonus if it includes the dropships their design & licence as well.
The Argo would go great with a Scout and if need be, you can always add in a dropship bay for a Leopard.
So that are five licence that could be of interest to them.
If only because three of them use the same auto-loading system, from the same factory unit and the computer system related to it.
Add Tramp, Star Lord & Monolith, plus Mammoth licences & fabrication machinery and...
They would get a solid basis,
Of interest is the Seeker, Princess, Fortress, Union, Overlord, Dictator, Elephant, Collosuss, Lee, Bastion, Vigilante, Lola III and Olumpus licences & factory machinery.
For now, I would say that if only they could the factory machinery related to the Argo, Cargomaster & Cargoking, then they have a nice starting setup, especially if they somehow can lay their hands on the Mammoth & Bastion Licences.
Same for the Fury (Combat Vehicle), King Crab and the Nightstar.
There probably are others as well, like cleaning up & recovery gear.
Mmm, maybe see if they can get a licence, blueprints and fabrication machinery of the Kiso?
And can they get a double heatsink factory going?
What about scaling up the other stuff they can produce?
Heck, do they know where they can still find production machinery?
Would laugh if they went and grapped the Outreach & Victoria CC production machinery.
It would nick two future problems, right in the butt, straight from the start, while giving them six mech lines to work with.
Here is hoping, that they now have enough information, to be alert for this.
Hell, I'm hoping on some Taurian factory gear as well, for say the Toro?
Then there is all the schooling & knowledge centers that were destroyed.
Would laugh if that was all stored there, including shipyard machinery parts.
Something is stored at site 222, that required two Caspars to guard it, something that must never fall into enemy hands.
Considering the fact that bio-weopon labs never had such protection, nor did other stuff, I think one such thing, would be SDS fabrication gear, research and so on.
Same for any power armor fabrication facility, like say the Nighthawk power armor, which even Amaris & Comstar, never really used in the ammount needed to show they had found a factory, yet NIOPS had the blueprints. (Still think they are the 331st hidout, you know)
Even Camelot Command had only SDS fighters, no dropships or warships.
So it must be C3, Stealth or Drone related, maybe even all three.
Heh, I hope they can lay their hands on a Samarkand, would go well with their ASF dropship, which are another two licence & fabrication machinery options of interest for them to aquire.
For now, might I suggest medical, fabrication & things like the Seeker it's modular bay setup and the Argo, Cargomaster & Cargoking, their computer & auto-loading systems?
Or the Union & the Command Van, their comand center equipement?
It would let them make very willed variants of say the Mammoth and so on.
I have the feeling, their efforts to remain of the radar, by not making too big ripples, will not work as well.
If only because quite soon, they will be the only ones able to do certain things.
Edit:
One way to bring back the Star Laugue.
Fuse the Kurita-Davion & Davion-Cameron, lines.
There, the most solid contander to the Throne.
O wait, everybody but the Hegemony who started the Star Laugue, left it, so only one member left, who had most of it's troops, abandon their post.
Second Edit:
How far along is the Myrmidon, second of the Argo Class and the Cargomaster prototype anyway?
And is there a third Cargoking hull, by change?
Maybe if they can buy up the machinery, they can get them added, as part of the means needed to transport said machinery.
Sure, would still require a couple of Mammoths, I bet, but...
Scout & Merchant class jumpships are the only ones that can really use a Behemoth without too much trouble.
If they have a Argo, they could use it for cargo transfer from two Mammoths, to a Behemoth, especially if they where all given the auto-loading-system.
The resources and technology to build and support the massive Cargomaster had become scarce, and so the prototype and production line were scrapped
Now that would be a shame, right?
Factory machinery for auto-loading-systems and the related computer systems, probably shared between all three dropship classes.
I hope they can grap it, when the time comes, for relative cheap.
I also wonder if a Behemoth with a frame made from Endo-Steel, could use the weight savings, in order to do some frame reïnforcements.
It certainly would explain the double date of creation of the Mammothe & Behemoth, if originally, they where Royal Variants.
Could thus give a nice Oops, if they do go for buying the rights, blueprints & needed machinery for them.
