To: RnD@ARCO.com
From: AQVP@ARCO.com
Subject: Power Sources
Good morning everyone,
First I want to congratulate you all on the tremendous amount of work you have done over the past few months. Our shift away from cultural exploration in our jumps have allowed us to direct more funding to personal research and less to inter-dimensional conversion. Figuring out if a nifty magic wand would work in our world was never really profitable anyway.
Many of you have demonstrated remarkable results with the technologies currently available to us. The concept of a car that never needs refueling, running off a single anchor for nearly twenty years, is wonderful if not financially viable.
Those of you dedicated to weapons research have proven much more profitable. Using anchors as small, high energy power sources has enabled us to miniaturize some highly experimental weapons and systems. The rail cannon system is looking very promising, as is the micro power reactor for mobile armor.
Many of you have reported problems with anchors of varying power levels. We here in acquisitions admit it is difficult to get multiple anchors from multiple locations to have similar levels of charge.
As you know since the tragic loss to our company a few months ago, our jumpers are now better armed and armored against attacks, and our landing sites are cleared by unmanned drones before a live jump is preformed. These worlds are then rendered safe for transit by various means at the discretion of our jumpers. A new proposal has been put forth to farm these worlds for anchors.
Before any of you protest we KNOW that giving one jumper multiple anchors merely splits the charge evenly across them. So our plan is to send multiple jumpers to safe worlds at the same time. This way we can return with dozens or even hundreds of anchors with the same charge level. There may even be an eventual resort built to gain extra research revenue in addition to equally charged anchors.
To complete this task, we have asked some of our best jumpers to go to select worlds and make them safe. In some cases this will involve drawn out political deals. There are a few worlds though, where we are trying a more direct approach. We have invited a few of their residents here in order to charge anchors that can be used by a jumper upon return to the visitors world. These anchors can be utilized to power companions in innumerable ways.
That jumper will then make that world safe.
However they see fit.
Thank you all,
Frank Johnson
VP Acquisitions