P3X1299
10-05-2005, 07:06
John Carter, the CEO-Premier of P3X1299 sat behind his desk and stared at Admiral Nelson McCloud.
McCloud smiled. He’d been hoping to get the Secretary of Defense position after the previous resident of the office had been killed in a duel. Now he was engaged in a furious debate with the CEO –Premier about frigates of all things.
“John, the navy is the first line of defense that we have if some petty tin pot dictator decides to invade.”
Carter shook his head. “Everyone knows that it is impossible to produce ships on an assembly line.”
McCloud slammed his fist on the desk in frustration. “It is not impossible to produce a frigate that weighs in at about a thousand tons on an assembly line. It just takes money to do it, that and plenty of real estate. I’ve got feasibility studies to prove it too.”
Carter sighed. “Nelson, why do you want to be able to make so many frigates?”
Nelson knew he had won Carter over. “We need them for patrolling places, like our coastlines. Besides, we can sell them at a tremendous profit, and we’ll have a far cheaper method of producing our frigates. It’s gonna require about four hundred billion dollars of capital to start up though.”
Carter looked at the admiral skeptically. “You’re sure this is going to work, right?”
“John, I’m sure it will work.” With that, McCloud saluted and left the room.
Several Days Later
McCloud smiled. His new project was coming along very nicely. He’d been able to commission architects to design the whole project and they’d quickly come up with an extremely basic plan.
McCloud had final approval on the plan and looked at his brainchild with approval. The architects had come up with a basic though workable design. The first step was the assembly of a basic and watertight hull. In the hull assembly area, the basic hull including the screws of and Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate would be assembled. After the process of the basic hull assembly, the hull would be launched and floated into the hull stocking area. Each hull would have internal bracing which would be removed as it was towed down the final assembly canal, where the hull would be filled in with most of the equipment that would turn the basic hull into a warship. The hull would essentially be filled from the bottom up as it advanced along the final assembly canal. After the assembly, the completed ship would be towed into the harbor, where a crew would take it on its initial test cruise.
McCloud knew that he liked the plan, and so he picked up the phone and contacted the construction contractor that had given him the lowest bid to complete a project of this scale. McCloud turned to stare at the diagram on his wall.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/JoesGeo/Shipyard.jpg
OOC: I just want some feedback on this concept. I know it's a crappy drawing, but I was using Paint.
McCloud smiled. He’d been hoping to get the Secretary of Defense position after the previous resident of the office had been killed in a duel. Now he was engaged in a furious debate with the CEO –Premier about frigates of all things.
“John, the navy is the first line of defense that we have if some petty tin pot dictator decides to invade.”
Carter shook his head. “Everyone knows that it is impossible to produce ships on an assembly line.”
McCloud slammed his fist on the desk in frustration. “It is not impossible to produce a frigate that weighs in at about a thousand tons on an assembly line. It just takes money to do it, that and plenty of real estate. I’ve got feasibility studies to prove it too.”
Carter sighed. “Nelson, why do you want to be able to make so many frigates?”
Nelson knew he had won Carter over. “We need them for patrolling places, like our coastlines. Besides, we can sell them at a tremendous profit, and we’ll have a far cheaper method of producing our frigates. It’s gonna require about four hundred billion dollars of capital to start up though.”
Carter looked at the admiral skeptically. “You’re sure this is going to work, right?”
“John, I’m sure it will work.” With that, McCloud saluted and left the room.
Several Days Later
McCloud smiled. His new project was coming along very nicely. He’d been able to commission architects to design the whole project and they’d quickly come up with an extremely basic plan.
McCloud had final approval on the plan and looked at his brainchild with approval. The architects had come up with a basic though workable design. The first step was the assembly of a basic and watertight hull. In the hull assembly area, the basic hull including the screws of and Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate would be assembled. After the process of the basic hull assembly, the hull would be launched and floated into the hull stocking area. Each hull would have internal bracing which would be removed as it was towed down the final assembly canal, where the hull would be filled in with most of the equipment that would turn the basic hull into a warship. The hull would essentially be filled from the bottom up as it advanced along the final assembly canal. After the assembly, the completed ship would be towed into the harbor, where a crew would take it on its initial test cruise.
McCloud knew that he liked the plan, and so he picked up the phone and contacted the construction contractor that had given him the lowest bid to complete a project of this scale. McCloud turned to stare at the diagram on his wall.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/JoesGeo/Shipyard.jpg
OOC: I just want some feedback on this concept. I know it's a crappy drawing, but I was using Paint.