Talk:Aneph Enterprises Consolidated Fleet/@comment-12161342-20141124130605

Aneph Homeland, Tato's Office

Tato hangs up a secured phone line, then calls Andrews, who is currently at the secret Mars installation overseeing construction of the Vesuvius-class

Tato: "Andrews, I need you to pass a message to the lead manager of the shipyard there. Tell him that, as per my orders, all work on the Pyroclast-class supercarriers is to be put on hold, and to resume the production of the Io-class ships. The Israeli Navy has offered to share their advanced railgun technology with us in exchange for an Io-class vessel, so I want two more made. One of them is to stay with us to balance the Israeli acquisition, and the second will be delivered to the INS. However, I don't see why we should risk the secret of our advanced warp attack capabilities, so I want the INS Io to have all warp-attack technology pulled out of it. Keep it's equipment in storage so that we can easily put it back into the INS Io if I decide to give it to them, but don't let it leave the shipyard with that stuff on it. In addition, remove all references to the warp attack capabilities in the shipboard computers. I want both of the new Io-class ships done within half a month. We have the tooling and are only building two, so it should be easy to make that happen. Once both of the new ships are done, resume construction of the Pyroclast-class. Finally, Vesuvius-class production is not to be disrupted unless the schedule will be otherwise impossible to keep."

OOC: nobody knows the Io has warp attack capabilities in RP. Tato has dropped hints that it can do something special, but he has never demonstrated or specified it. As for the INS, they will still be getting the FTL communication, warp detection, ultra-fast warp, sublight, and other special technologies of the Io class, just not the warp attack technology. Not yet.