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@mp3.1415player, while Taylor is focused on Subspace, and works primarily with the esoteric math and science that is needed to implement her ideas with functioning test equipment and examples of things she's learned from her educational shows, she is also working with the scientists and engineers working for Gravtech at the DWA. There is a good chance that even though she's not a tinker like Vectura is in "Taylor Varga", she likely sees all the equipment and usages of such, that the dock workers need to get their jobs done.
I wouldn't be surprised if Taylor sees something that is being done by the dock workers with a piece of equipment that might spark her imagination into creating a new piece of industrial equipment that would revolutionize the industry. Not by creating a whole new machine like Vectura did, but by changing a part of a machine to either make it smaller, more effective, need less maintenance, be less expensive, or some other variation of making a breakthrough. Even using her current devices and ideas will eventually do this, but that will take time, and engineers who are interested in that. Likely people who are still on short supply.
One thing that could make a big difference is some equipment that would provide a structural integrity field of some kind. Or, maybe a safety device that would ensure an operator was pulled to safety in the event of a catastrophic failure. Or prevent a cockpit from being impacted by harsh outside forces.
I hope you are keeping in mind little things like this you can throw into your story that will keep the jaws dropped on the people who are watching Taylor. That's always fun to read about. Since this is a kind of slice-of-life story, I don't see you in a hurry to reach a plot point or have to control the pace of the story to an extent you have to worry about little bits throwing these things off.
If I was a more imaginative person, I could maybe bring up some little components of systems that would be impacted even by the ideas you've already put into the story so far that would cause huge changes to quality of life, safety, and profitability of equipment that it might impact.
Though, I suppose it would move away from the pure science.
Might even be happening in the background already, but not explicitly stated in the story. I could see Taylor writing up ideas for other engineers to explore based on things she is working on and passing them out to the people at Gravtech.
Just a thought I had while looking over the thread, keeping up with what's going on here.
