Barsoom

“Just enough room in the hold for a few tools and a change of underwear.”

The head designer’s terse description of the Barsoom’s hold belies the massive maintenance bay with which it is equipped.

The maintenance bay serves to capture and hold the wrecks of super capital ships lost in battle. When a ship is thus captured, the Barsoom will be able to move the wreck to the dry dock.

A diagnostic will then be performed that will assess the level of damage to the ship as well as the materials required to repair it. A blue print will have to be invented for the particular wreck in the dry dock as well as the full bill of materials required to repair it.

Although the required materials to repair the ship will likely be considerable, it will still be a fraction of the materials needed to construct an entirely new super capital ship.

A preliminary design for the Barsoom looks as follows:

Remember this picture the next time you smirk at someone who ‘only’ has an arts degree.

The elysian minds in far and fair Reykjavík will know how to give this ship the expression it deserves.

The Barsoom design is a super capital class freighter and has all the characteristics associated with it.

The advantage of its operation is to salvage ships that now are typically lost forever, at the risk and the cost of capturing the wreck in this ship and handing it off to a dry dock facility. A diagnostic procedure needs to be run to establish to what degree it has been damaged and what effort will be required to restore it to full functioning order.

It is a big risk to deploy this ship for the reward of recovering a destroyed super capital class hull.