Absolutely fantastic news! Just got a mail confirming that our ridiculously low-ball offer has been accepted - must have been one very desperate owner, is all I can think. What our low nine-digit bid won us:
A vertically-integrated twin bay fab, massing about 40,000 tons, with:
- integrated 1 terawatt reactor, with about 5 years fuel remaining
- full-table transmute capability
- 6 month doubling period.
- quarters for 30 crew
- high-end design suite w/ some really nice evo-design 'wares
- about 100,000 tons of refined feedstock split across the periodic table in the usual proportions
- assorted construction & tractor droids & the associated CAD/CAM files, AI templates
Pretty stoked about this, but I haven't actually been aboard yet - the fab is about .2 AU "behind" Ceres and I've had to stay around to scout for alternatives in case the deal didn't go through (this gig comes with fairly serious time pressure, not from JD, but due to certain "market correcting" legislation being prepared by a certain IPTO block).
Next job is to find a tug with a fairly decent delta-v and a discreet owner (for reasons which will be clear to anyone not living under a rock in the Oort cloud, getting our money's worth out of our new purchase requires moving our fab somewhere very, very private ASAP). Since every other solvent fab owner is apparently thinking along similar lines, the search has been a nightmare so far - I've only got two firm quotes as yet, both at daily rates that can only be described as piratical.
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