Location:Mid Ring, Vel'thari Containment — Dead Spot, Shuttle Workshop
Date/Time:Late Emberrise, 9942 AZI — Day 120, 245 days remaining
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The fabricator had been running for thirty-four days.
Jayde fed it alloy in the morning and pulled finished components in the evening, and in between the machine did what Federation machines did: worked. Precisely, tirelessly, to tolerances that made every hand-crafted tool on Doha look like a child's drawing next to a photograph. The shuttle's cargo bay had become an assembly floor, finished components arranged on improvised racks along the bulkheads, sorted by project and priority. The datapad tracked everything: production schedule, material consumption, quality notes.
The weapons came first.
