Actually the Hanar have suggested that they lease you a shipyard or two so that you can start selling them those ships sooner.
You know this is actually a pretty major boon for us. The Zama goes for 300,000cr/pr so even a Small Shipyard with 300,000pr/quarter is still going to earn us 90 billion less rent. However given that a Small Shipyard means only 15 ships per year and the whole point of leasing us shipyard/s is to get more ships faster so I doubt they'd be happy with such a low rate.
Instead we're probably talking more like a Medium Shipyard with it's 3,000,000pr/quarter for a yearly total of 154 frigates. Before the cost of leasing the shipyard we're talking about
900 billion credits per quarter which is pretty massive, especially considering we'd still have all of our production on top of that. Unless the rent is crazy high, a
10x multiplier on upkeep only gives 50 billion per quarter, we're talking about serious crazy here.
With that sort of return we might actually be able to build not one but
two Large Shipyards next quarter. That would give us approximately, almost certainly more, 70 million free production in 2175-Q4. Or enough to build
one thousand Lite Laser Pyndas per quarter and
still have ~6x as much free production as we did this quarter.
Now for something completely different.
It's (Not) A Paragon Industries Weapons Project
Ever since Jack arrived you've had this niggling feeling that just won't go away. No, if you're been honest with yourself it started back when you first watched the video of Jack slaughter her way through countless Bloodpack mercs on Omega. Ever since then you've had this annoying feeling of inferiority bugging you. It's like your subconscious believes that you should be the galaxy's, or at least humanity's, greatest Biotic.
Logically you know that your Biotics will never so much as hold a candle to Jack's. She was trained constantly from just four years old, subject to inhuman experiments to boost her abilities, and has more Eezo in her then any other living human. Problem is your pride doesn't care about little things like logic. All it cares about is that you are always the best at anything you try and if you aren't you work until you are.
So instead of doing the smart thing and just accepting this is one battle you'll never win you redouble your efforts and throw yourself into training.
It doesn't work.
No matter how hard and long you train the distance between you and Jack only grows wider. For as you take small stumbling steps forwards she races ahead at a rate no human, something to which both Rahna and Liara agree with, should be capable of.
With training and hard work failing you turn to cheating instead. Except there just aren't any get-good-fast cheats for Biotics, if there were they'd have been used on Jack and not be of much help. There are drugs like Red Sand and Minagen X3 that can enhance your Biotics but they come with far too many serious side effects. There is the option of getting a more powerful implant except changing implants is a dangerous surgery and the Magi is already the strongest implant safe for human use. There is the option of getting more Eezo implanted except that's even more dangerous, to the point where it's actually illegal.
All your research keeps saying the same thing; there are no safe methods to increase your Biotics ability. The only thing you've come across that is even close would be those overchargers used by Krogan Biotics and that's only safe because they have a secondary nervous system so the damage doesn't hinder them and sufficient regeneration that all the damage is repairable. A human trying to use one would fry their, one and only, nervous system.
It was at that moment a rather painful surge of electricity shot through your arm, leaving it numb. In your distraction you'd started tinkering with an old Gen 1 Arc Reactor that had been left lying on your desk, which more often than not ended up being used as a workbench, and had somehow short-circuited one of the control chips causing it to discharge into your arm.
This not being the first, or the second or the third or the fiftieth, time you've done something like this you had a medkit sitting in your desk's top right draw. Except as you opened the draw you noticed something very odd. You'd instinctively opened it with your right hand despite the shock it received seconds before. In fact the arm wasn't even numb anymore, you could quite clearly feel the cool metallic feel of the draw's handle.
You know from long, painful, experience that a shock like that should have left the arm numb, and then extremely sensitive, for hours without proper medical treatment.
Then it hit you; Perficere. The treatment plan you've been using improves every aspect of the human body including things like durability and healing. Apparently that means electric shocks aren't as much of a problem as before, yet another awesome bonus. Even better is that increased durability and healing means overchargers are actually practical now.
You'd have to tweak the design since a Krogan overcharger would still fry even an enhanced human and you could probability make it a sustainable system rather then for short bursts since you're limited to what the enhanced nervous system can sustain with minimal damage. But it's possible!
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AN: 648 words is smaller then I'd like but I've ran into multiple walls while trying to write this so it is what it is.
This was spawned by the question, inspired by this quote:
"It can't be a PI weapons project. It's not powered by an arc-reactor."
, of how to create a Biotic enhancement system, like Jack's amp but safe, using an Arc Reactor.
My first thought was of course of the Overchargers used by Krogan Biotics, most notably Mr "no one can spell my first name" Dor, but that would, like I mentioned in the omake, fry out Revy's nervous system, which would be bad. But then I remembered we're undergoing Peak Human treatments which, among other things, increase both healing and durability.
So setting up an implant that connects to the user's ANI/Amp and supercharges the normal electrical signals sent to Eezo nodules should be possible. Definitely wouldn't give as much as a performance boost as it does for Krogan because humans lack a backup nervous system to keep them going with the other repairs and simply due to the lower tolerances of our nervous system.
The system would, of course, be powered by an Arc Reactor which means, depending upon the strain on the user, it could be used whenever Biotics are needed rather then just for heavy combat, if at a lower intensity then in combat.
