[Abe Sargent]

July 4, 3065 – “Are you kidding me? Major Zhen, did you know about this facility when you did reaserch on the Star League era facilties here on Epsilon Eridani back when we wer looking for the depot here?”

After finding out that no one knew, Duke Essex gets on the phone and calls in CEO and wife Elizabeth Walters-Essex and Leftenant-General Pierre Benton along with Maj. Zhen.

“We have apparently uncovered something so incridble, that you have to see it to believe it. It’s about 20 miles from the Star League depot we found a while ago, hidden in the mountains. As you folks know, we have begun to search the nearby mountains for other things over the years, sincean entire depot was in that area, undiscovered for centuries. Figured we should keep on checking, right? Well, we found something all right, let’s go check it out…”


Roughly nine hours later, the four of them get off a DropShuttle right by the long forgotten facility in the Goushen Highlands.

They walk into a large, hidden facility. It’s centuries old. Vintage Star League technology. The area opens into a huge wind tunnel and hangar, with broken doors preventing them from being opened. The factory has been damaged and broken in some places, but it still has some computers, some dies and such.

“You can feel it, can’t you? The age. The technology. We found this yesterday, and our techs looked over it completely. This is the factory for the Harvard Company. They made one thing, and they made it well – the Wasp LAM. It was made, right here. It was the only place the Wasp LAM was produced.”

They move around and do some more inspecting. Maj. Zhen begins talking, “As you can see, we have a few LAMs in broken condition here and there. We think we can salvage at least two. That’s our target goal. Meanwhile, we have plans, and some dies, for both the original Wasp LAM Mark 1, and a later Mar kII 105 variant that replaced it. We could, theoretically, make them again, but the parts aren’t made. All of the LAM factories were destroyed centuries ago, except for one Stinger LAM facility in Irece, which was shut down by clan Nova Cat a while ago. Parts from the Stinger and Wasp are interchangeable, but no one has been making these parts for a long time.”

The Essex couple discuss the facility. Kressly Warworks has been asked about building a line of fighters for a qwhile, but the start up cost has invariably been way too much. But instead, Kressly could simply refit and fix this place into a new fighter factory, and testing facility.


They purchase equipment, set up tours of the Brooks Inc plant on Liberty, and begin to work on the renovation and conversion of the old Harvard Company facilties in the Highlands. It should take around 2.5 - 3 years to get it up and running.

In order to get a dry run begun, they agree to create a conventional fighter line first, not an aerospace fighter line, or a future Wasp LAM even. Conventional fighters are easy enough to make. In fact, most systems design their own conventional fighters. In order to simplify things, Kressly has agreed to lisence the Defender Medium Strike Fighter. It’s an extremely common conventional fighter, and we’ll be making them roughly sometime between January 3068 and June 3068 – although obviously, it could take some time to figure out the rest, and the project could be delayed considerably (or sped up considerably)

(In the main time line, Harvard Company was rediscovered in the early Jihad years, and then purchased by Kressly and turned into an aerospace fighter making planet in the 3080s. We are speeding up its fnd by a couple of years (like 3 or 4) and then investing in it now.)


After working on Nanking, we are going to move TekTeam Technical Services to here to help with salvage operations, and they will uncover a few more Wasp LAM parts and such, and eventually enough for a 3rd salvaged unit, fully repaired. We extend TekTeam’s contract as well to help us out.