I give the optronic datachip a good last close once over with my mechadendrite sensor, looking for flaws before I slide it into its socket and close the hatch. I have been working on this ship for almost five months now on almost all my free time but progress have been made. Soon its time for the Trojan Horse to happen.
Most of the internal systems have been remade with some help from B'Elanna. While she didnt see much of a need to work on the actual ship other than insisting to go over it before I start anything up for the first time, she gave a couple of tips.
Complete scans of all fried components and then go through them with the computer and adjusting the flaws. Then you feed it to a replicator which recycle it into rations while saving it in memory.
You then have the computer apply the adjustments to the replicator pattern before replicating the new part.
It don't work on all things, just generally simple components or the calculations for the computer to do go crazy complex even by federation standards. The rest you need to repair manually or find replacements for.
Even so as I look around the inside of the ship I'm quite pleased to have been able to save almost 70% of the original components.
I make my way into the back of the ship, opening the door into the small engineering section "How is it going, Seven? I'm done upfront for now. Just need a computer core now to get the control systems online."
She glance back at me before closing up what I named the Anni plant. It dont work exactly like the ones in the comic, crushing matter into a nano singularity and then running on hawking radiation instead of doing something funky with neutrons, but the name fit just as well.
It's actually just as efficient as a regular AM/M warpcore and if it actually work, I'm taking the design to the Captain.
With this there is no need to fuck around with dangerous antimatter, it will run on any kind of gas. Biggest problem is that it wont start up on its own, it need to be jump started to get the gravity generators to press the gas into the nano singularity.
"The last components have been installed. Once the computer core have been installed, we should be able to start the reactor...if we get the programming correct." she answer while standing up and I nod
"That's a pretty big 'if', Seven. Even with computer assistance, writing completely new software for a completely new ship isn't exactly easy."
"The programming wont be a problem, it would simply take time." she state confidently as she walk out of the ship, with me following.
"Even so, its just internal systems and power systems we have fixed. There is plenty of time working on the programming while we get the hull and all external systems on this thing working. I haven't even had a look at the impulse or actual warp systems yet."
"There isn't a impulse system." and I just stop and look at her
"What." and she turn to face me
"You didn't know? The ship appear to use gravity projectors to create a gravity well in the direction it want to travel. Borg cubes use a similar method of propulsion." and I just blink
"Huh, really?" and she nod
"Yes. The drive system of this vessel is quite advanced even if some, like the sublight gravity drive, is less advanced than current Borg systems." and I frown slightly
"Do you think it's possible to enhance the current systems using Borg technology?" and I get a nod
"There are components that can be replaced with Borg components to improve performance."
I nod and start to walk again "What about the warp drive?" and she frown slightly
"It's a unknown configuration. It is unknown to the Borg and there is nothing like it in Starfleet databases." and I give her a unsure look
"But it 'is' a warpdrive, right?" and she nod
"Correct."