Talk:United Aerospace Command/@comment-10905876-20150128193214

-Earth orbit-

The superbattleship UAC Viscount exits slipspace in high orbit, and begins a controlled descent into the atmosphere. She then heads towards the tropical paradise that is the island of (whichever UAC island is more resort type, I forgot which) and makes an aquatic landing. Several Paradox class destroyers and two Gibraltar class battleships are followed by numerous water taxis, which all pull alongside the massive vessel to take the crew to the island for shore leave. After several hours, all but a skeleton crew and the senior officers remain aboard. The ship then activates her massive KDY-21 main thrusters, and takes off to return to orbit. Once at altitude, she engages her slipspace engine to return to Ceres.

-Kuat Drive Yards, Ceres-

The UAC Viscount drops out of slipspace in orbit of Ceres, and makes her way towards the Heavy Warships section of the Kuat yards. On her way there she passes the Sub Kilometer Section, where numerous Spear of Saturn class battlecruisers, Trident class cruisers, and Nebulon class cruisers sit in docking cradles being refitted with the new sublight and slipspace engines. A Nebulon rockets past at very high speed, and a reprimand is heard from Shipyard Control as it exceeds the velocity limits for the shipyard. The offending vessel later lights up her engines again once she's clear, demonstrating the power of her new sublight drive.

The massive vessel continues on, and at the Heavy Warships section more ships are seen being refitted and constructed. At this point the main thrusters are reversed on Viscount, decelerating her as she nears a pair of very large docking bays. The one nearest to her is empty, and a massive docking cradle waits for her massive bulk to settle itself upon it. The other, holds the nearly completed UAC Canis Major, second Viscount class and virtually identical. The only current difference between the two is propulsion, Canis Major already carries the new KDY-21SL engine, the sublight variant of the KDY-21 main thruster, and the blinking slipspace engine. Now the thrusters on Viscount fall silent while tractor beams far more powerful than anything seen aboard a ship take over. The massive vessel is slowly reeled in, and soon rests upon the docking cradle below her. As soon as the tensing crew are clear of the engineering sections and while the rector is powering down, massive pumps depressurize the engineering sections in preparation to replace her engines. The rest of the crew take a Boeing class transport to Earth, though her captain and chief engineer remain to oversee her refit.

OOC: So I'm announcing the refit of not only the Viscount, but also that my other ships are steadily cycling through the process as well. This also is the first mention of Viscount's sister, the Canis Major.