Let's build a thing

[Miss Blonde]

Relovian, Reclaimer Arms & Industrial R&D department

After a few drinks and reliving the old days of youth and poor choices the duo of ladies ended back up Relovian where the woman's company and family was located on. As the two walked into the building Patricia grabbed her communicator and whipped it out to call her husband [member="Jarven Zexxel"] the dude who was the father of her children and the one currently growing in the oven.

"Hey honey, I just want to let you know I made it back to Relovian and I'll be home soon. I love you and I will see you soon. Feel free to bring the kids down to the office if you want, make sure Kincaid is in bed by eight and that Erika does her homework." Patricia sent the message then looked at her new BFF [member="Triam Akovin"]

"Welcome to Reclaimer Arms & Industrial. I ordered all the parts for a basic lightsaber and a synthetic crystal along with ion blaster components for the ionizing process. We have everything here, let's just hear on into the lab and we can start." Patricia said with a smile.

Walking forward the tiny five foot two blonde's heels clicked against the ground as they walked through the halls of the large building.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

Triam didn't really know what to think of the 5" 2' woman in her little heels. Triam really wasn't one to wear normal clothing. You could say she adhered to her company's mantra of "Prepare for War", a little too literally. She was unarmed, but at the same time, heavily armored. It was pretty rare to see her out of her shell, and although Patricia was friendly enough and a businesswoman, she would not see herself exposing anything to her like she did with Preliat once upon a time.

During their little voyage here, she had been more officially drawing up plans on a hologram, utilizing Crol H'hurut's lightsaber as a base model for her plans, and discovered it was very difficult for ionized particles to be trapped in the lightsabers standard magnetic field. Crol told her thought, that the fields could be adjusted... he just didn't happen to have the technically know how to do it himself.

At there was a means for which it could be done. At any rate, she foresaw that there may be more than one accident to happen today, or however long it took to develop this weapon. She was no lightsaber engineer after all, but she was always willing to branch out. Curiosity though, did stem towards Patricia as she said she ordered a standard crystal.

"Is he cute?" She opened up with small talk first, with a smile and a wink, but then returned her attention to the task at hand. "Do you have a reason you have regular access to lightsaber components?" She said, as she spun another failed hologram simulation test of her design.

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"]

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Triam Akovin"]

"You could say I'm an enthusiast." Patricia said skillfully dodging the question Triam had asked.

Beneath her dress strapped to the right side of her thigh was the lightsaber of Revan himself. She didn't flaunt to the galaxy that she was force sensitive, hell she wasn't even a force user until she picked the damn thing up. But there was no reason to just willy nilly walk around and brag about how you had the most powerful Sith Lord's lightsaber. That was just poor form, and generally rude.

"Right this way." She said as the walked past the final set of doors.

"Also, let's just say I didn't marry him just for his brains." Patricia chuckled as they entered the room.

Once Inside Patricia was greeted by a few scientists, there was a round of hand shakes and good mornings and once that was over she went along and made her way to the workbench where a few items were waiting for them. They pretty much had access to anything the two could want so she simply sat back and smiled at her new BFF and spoke kindly.

"Okay so give me the specs on this queen. We'll get to building." she said with an eager tone.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

"All right, so the schematics are still in the pre-stage, there is a lot of discovery to be made. Essentially though, I think what we need to do is recognize the various similarities between some ion-tech, and some lightsabers. The key similarities being the need for a power cell, a beam emitter, and some form of a focusing mechanism. From the ion-tech then, we'll need an acceleration chamber, a cooling vent, and a discharge nozzle. Lightsabers use focusing lenses and energizers to convert diatium power cell energy into plasma, which is then sent through a series of field energizers and other nonsense circuitry in the emitter matrix. The part that is most interesting though, is the specific containment field of the blade that traps the plasma energy inside and deflect other fields of its kind, located on the emitter itself. Initially, it seems to be a daunting task to combine these two things, but I think between the two of us we can figure something out." Triam nodded as she sent a copy of her latest schematics to Patricia.

"The way I see it, is that we need to fit an acceleration chamber somewhere in there, and create some sort of cooling exhaust vent on the device, probably near the pommel cap where the diatium energy cell will be located. We'll use the lightsaber beam emitter for the containment field, and wrap the focusing lense system with ion coils in order to hybridize the system. We can probably modify the lense to amplify the ion coil system to convert it into the type of ionizing energy we require from the beam we're generating, rather than the plasmic variety. We'll have to toggle around with the emitter matrix to make sure it's able to contain the ion particles on command, as my associate Crol H'hurut indicated was possible."

She looked over to Patricia as they entered the fun area, and listed in her head how she saw the thing being constructed:

1. Containment Field (Saber Component)
2. Discharge Nozzle (Ion Component)
3. Beam Emitter (Hybrid Component)
4. Modified Emitter Matrix (Ion-Adjusted Saber Component)
5. Hybridized Focusing Lense/Ion Focusing Coil System (Hybrid Component)
6. Saber Crystal (Saber Component)
7. Acceleration Chamber (Ion Component)
8. Diatum Energy Cell (Hybrid Component)
9. Cooling Vent (Ion Component)

"Think you can do that?" She asked.

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"]

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Triam Akovin"]

"Does a bear crap in the woods? Patricia said in a joking tone to Triam.

Looking over the specs the woman took a look at step one, of course step one being creating a housing unit for everything. That was generally the first step to any project, so it was time to get to work. Taking the lightsaber she began to dismantle it carefully with a set of tools by her side, once it was gutted she took the casing and set it to the side.

Afterwards looking over to the ion pistols by her side began to dismantle one until it's casing was bare and it's parts lay strung out on the table. Grabbing the specs and the casings Patricia walked over to a very large machine that stood about a good ten feet. It was a very impressive piece of technology, try to imagine a 3-D printer but with metal. All you had to do was feed the material, input the schematics and away it went.

"Love this thing, takes away the painstaking task of forging crap." Patricia said as she dumped the metals in.

Scanning the schematics and imputing the dimensions Patricia walked back over to Triam and sat back down while the machine whirled to life to begin the printing process.

"Okay, so next step?" Patricia crossed her legs and chuckled.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

"No manual labor? I have a tendency to always have my hands in things. Rigsy does well at replicating my meticulous human process perfectly. I'm very particular about my tech in how it's constructed, otherwise I generally distrust it." She explained in the passing conversation.

"On what's next, well, it's going to involve a lot of trial and error probably. After all, we're converting something that produces blasts of ions rather than a steady stream, which is what I'm looking for. Additionally, the containment field is probably going to need to be adjusted... a lot. So even if we manage to rig the ionic projector to produce a steady stream of ionic particles, we'll have to fine tune the fields to this sort of blade. Otherwise, it'll just shoot out the top and lose all of its energy in a burst." There was a lot going into this project, with a lot of unknown variables that she had to figure out.

Little did she know, that she was essentially reverse engineering alien technology out in unknown space through trial and error with a "normal" ion blaster. It was certainly an interesting idea that this co-development of technology could take place independent of each other, though it was certainly possible that on some level she had heard about the Ssi-Ruuvi Ion Paddle Beamers the Fringe often used, though she had never come in direct contact with the technology, so it's anyone's guess how it was being developed her.

"So to put in a funnier tone: turn it on, and try to fix the errors after it blows up in our faces." She didn't have nearly enough fun at the iBorg R&D Shop, this was actually interesting stuff, with an interesting person who was fairly similar to herself in some respects.

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"]

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Triam Akovin"]

"You've really evolved this from a few napkins haven't you?" Patricia said with a laugh now.

It was pretty funny how life worked sometimes. One day you are trying to kill each other on a god forsaken planet in the middle of nowhere and the next you are laughing and having a good time. It was the little things you had to admire really.

"Okay so let's mess around with the beam. I can try and rig it so it fires like a particle beam but that probably won't hold for too long. I'll see if I can get one of my guys to bring in a particle beam focuser and adjust it to an ion gun." Patricia went to her data pad and began to go to work by sending in a request to her inventory personnel.

"So get started on that containment field and I'll knock this focuser out." Patricia said as she began to fiddle with the blaster.

Stripping it down she began to remove the trigger housing unit and moved into the ammo chip where she quickly set it aside. She would have to rig something up to create a constant flow of ion particles rather than the steady bursts. It would take a few but she was confident it could be done.

 

[Cassus Akovin]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"]

"An idea has gotta start somewhere, right?" She said laughing to her friends remark. Triam certainly had a habit of expanding ideas very quickly over a short span of time. All she needed was the necessary amount of motivation, and any idea she had locked in her head was bound to escape in no time.

"Sounds like a plan." She said as her companion got to work on the ion segment of the blade, attempting to convert the crude blaster into a particle stream. Meanwhile, she left to another corner of the room and called up her personal "employee", telling him to get his ass over here and let her re-examine his stupid lightsaber.

Several minutes later, and the old red geezer begrudgingly entered the room, handing his saber to Triam. Opening it up, she cross examined the lightsaber parts that Patricia had obtained, and compared them to the construct that Crol H'hurut used for his saber. Reconstructing his blade, she began to toggle with the emitter matrix, attempting to get a good field. She then dismissed the Zeltron for the day, told him to go amuse himself or something.

"Shove it." He grumbled before leaving. Triam stuck her tongue out at him when his back was turned, then turned over to Patricia.

"Let me know when you've got that Ion blaster fixed, I have a test to run on this modified emitter matrix. Might work," She took the toggled blade, and activated Crol's red lightsaber, passing one through the other. There was a few sparks as the fields collided and tried to resist, but ultimately allowed the former to pass through after a moment. "Passed through saber fields. Not smoothly mind you but, it's a start. Needs more toggling."

 

[Miss Blonde]

[member="Triam Akovin"]

"So is this a personal project or can you hook a girl up with one of these?" Patricia asked as one of her employees placed a particle beam rifle down on the table in front of her.

Patricia gave him a nod and smile before dismissing him, a silent thank you would be enough. After all he only went down to the basement to grab a standard particle beam rifle.

"Let's see if we can tweak this, let's hope we don't explode." she said with a giggle towards the very real danger of crossing three very different weapon systems.

Dismantling the particle beam Patricia began to root around in it's guts removing the beam accelerator from the ammunition source and it's focusing barrel Patricia placed that to the side to grab the ion ammunition source. Taking that and the trigger housing unit apart she wired the ammo to the beam accelerator and began to size it down to create a shorter accelerator that could fit in the hilt of a lightsaber or something smaller.

"Okay so the accelerator is hooked up to the ion source. It's a fifty round clip so it should last for maybe fifty seconds. If I had one of those high capacity ammo holders I could make it last for an hour or toe but since this is a test it should suffice. So if you could be a pal and hand me that synthetic crystal so I can use it as the beams new focuser." Patricia smiled at her friend and soon heard a loud ding.

"Ah, case is done. Let that cool for a second while I hook up this crystal." Patricia said with a chuckle

 

[Cassus Akovin]

[member="Patricia Susan Garter"] (Sorry about that long AFK stint )

"I'm thinking about selling it around a little," Triam said with a wink towards her, "I've been known to fulfill favors though."

For another minute she scurried around in her supply bucket to find that crystal she mentioned, and upon finding it tossed it over to her, hoping obviously she didn't drop it or something. She wasn't really sure how fragile it was, but figured they were both nimble enough and well rooted in resources to scrounge up a replacement if needed.

"How's it coming along with that thing anyway? Eventually our two projects got to merge, and be tested as one prototype." She stated the obvious, as she toggle the emitter matrix, and passed the lightsaber blade through with a bit less resistance than last time. She only hoped that at these settings it would contain the ion particles. Suddenly a thought occurred to her about the implications of containing a constant stream of ion particles in a confined state. Wouldn't those particles reflect back into the device and causing it to explode? Especially if her partner was considering using standard ammo cartridges. There would need to be some recycling mechanism that could recollect particles as they came back. Something that could be attached to the discharge nozzle probably.

"Hmm, Patricia. You don't happen to be using standard cartridges are you? If it bursts into a containment field, it'll likely damage the emitter and cause a field collapse. Is there anyway you could modify the Discharge Nozzle to integrate with the emitter field generator in order to collect and recycle rebounded ion particles, and expel any inert ones at the same time?" That probably saved them from their first prototype resulting in an explosion.