The British Alliance crews left the walls open for the first few months so they could use it as a fabrication space, but you couldn’t tell it was anything other than the mess hall when they were done. The room was hardened for combat like every part of the ship. The walls would make perfectly good armour plating for the outside, but more importantly, they could isolate that large room from damage or withstand punishment. The extensive services of the British shipwrights were expensive; it cost them favours and trips to more scrap yards than Minh-Chu could count, but the British crew never complained. They just stripped down, cut down, refurbished, and certified the materials then built according to Jake Valent’s plan. By the time the whole habitation area, bridge, airlocks, brig, weapon systems, embarking compartments, and a few other places were completed, the Warlord had quadrupled in mass. Even more importantly, the shipwrights had come to respect Jake’s design style. It was too bad they had to go, they still had many rooms to finish.
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