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> "Progress is slow because of the Federation Council's damned special research > projects. Because of their dickering with my budget and projects, all in the > name of oversight, I have had to take good people off of valuable projects. > They work part time on what I need, and part on what the Council wants. That > is the reason for the slowness of most of my projects. "I can understand that. We're all being pulled in a million directions." He looked at Lasiter, "Can the Council back off for a period of reorganization so I can reorganize and dedicate to make some quick hard progress on some projects?" > Shadow Killer is a doomed project. I have been trying to either kill it or > redesign it for about 17 years without success. Either you boys at Command or > the Council refuses to allow it. Basically we are supposed to create a > cloaking device, or re-create one, and try to find ways of detecting a cloaked > ship. We get little support from Intell, not to mention that we are forbidden > from developing cloaking technology as part of a Romulan-Federation Treaty. > Our research into new technology for photon and quantom torpedoes is advancing > quite well considering that both have been around for a while. The technology > is quickly approaching the point where it can't go any further. The teams are > set to test a pair of prototypes within the week at the test range outside of > the solar system. Two new configurations allowing a higher yield warhead by > about 15% and a new sensor package allowing for tracking of targets and less > precise targeting locks." > "New starships...we have none ready to go public except for one that my wife > is involved with....and project Star-Hugger could be combined with the new > starship for safer warp-impulse transitions." > "They could, but progress on the Star-Hugger project has to happen first. > That is a particularily slow research project because it looks at not only > emissions of radiation and the like from starships, but long term effects. By > the very nature of that project it will not be a quick one." "Well I will need some answers for the Council relatively soon I believe." > Combine that and the pesky world of the Starfleet Oversight committee of the > Federation Council, and you have a real mess." > "And finally....I would like information on Project Thunder Clap." > Hutchinson then made an attempt at answering the last question. > "It seems as if you have done your homework. Tell me what you know of it, > and I will do my best to fill you in..." (ooc: all that stuff is at home...I'm at work-no can do) "Let me be frank...when I get told to do a job I do it...I was asked to reenergize this department and I will get it done...how I'll do it-I'm still working on but it will get done." (lorin gives his knowledge of thunder clap)
