> "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?"
"They have reciently become somewhat hostile towards Starfleet. They like
to use us to score points with their home popluations. Feel free to give it a
try, but they may buck and cut your funding and demand more." Lasiter
replied.
> 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."
"What you or they need is irrevelant. Research is not like building a
starship where you always have measurable goals and bench marks. Good
research provides answers, but mostly new questions. Preliminary results are,
at best, all that are available."
> 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."
TBC from home...
