Talk:Aneph Enterprises Consolidated Fleet/@comment-12161342-20150225145626

Aneph Homeland, Earth

''Tato is in his office taking a break from doing paperwork, watching a small pyroclastic surge streak down the slopes of one of Aneph's numerous volcanoes. An aide comes in and hands him a sealed message labled Above Top Secret, Eyes Only. The aide leaves and Tato reads the message. "Perfect...." he breathes. After rereading the message several times to make sure he isn't jumping the gun, Tato makes several calls and schedules an inspection of the ANF's incomplete public spaceport being built on Arsia Mons. He then makes several more calls, but these ones are highly encrypted, and changes some of the details in the planned visit. Several hours later, Tato steps aboard the Io, which has completed its refitting process, and departs for Mars. Behind them, the Mustafar lands in drydock and begins its refitting process. ''

Arsia Mons Spaceport, Mars

The Io ''docks within the giant extinct caldera of Arsia Mons, the incomplete spaceport sprawling around them. Tato steps off the ship and begins his scheduled inspection, overseeing progress and asking about various things such as schedules and morale. After a few hours of inspecting the spaceport, a large armored vehicle shows up, and Tato gets in. The armored truck departs the spaceport through the North Fissure, one of two massive gaps in the caldera walls being widened in preparation for a superhighway. Carreening down the incomplete superhighway, the truck heads down the slope of Arsia Mons before turning onto an access road and heading into a lava tube. Inside, Tato gets on a high-speed monorail subway that whisks him away towards the secret ANF shipyard within Olympus Mons.''

Secret Aneph Shipyard, Olympus Mons

''Tato arrives at the main shipyard facility, stepping off the subway train. Above him, five towering assemblies of gantries and scaffolds support five giant ships of a new class. As Tato watches, a series of cranes hoist a long tubular structure onto the face of the ship nearest to completion, where hordes of workers begin welding and otherwise attaching it to the hull of the vessel. Ten tubes sprout from the front of the ship, nine already attached and the tenth being worked on. The Foreman comes up to Tato, who is busy watching the work on the ship.''

Foreman: "Sir, we requested your presence here because she is just about complete, as you can see. Once this tenth launch tunnel is attached and properly secured, she will be ready for launch. We expect that she will be spaceborne by the end of the day, sir."

Tato: "Finally, after all these technical issues and design problems, she is ready. It has been long enough, but at least now we will have a way to rapidly project aerospace power anywhere it is needed... I will be inspecting the interior of the ship. Notify me when she's ready for launch."