Original Fan Fiction E.Vent. Shadows of Ghosts Part I CH.2

[Dunne]

Chapter 2. The Plane

2315, May 8. U.E.A.
Space Sector Alpha, Planet Rallodawn
Continent Rence, Province Percival
Sphere of Influence: U.E.A. Enforcers, UEA Military Owned Planet
Subdivisions; UEA Enforcers training facilities
Local Afternoon

Cale reached the hanger, it was tall and wide, purposely built to accommodate the large transports it housed at times. He was surprised to see one of the latest aero space combat machines the XJP-53 Drooper, product of Triad Industries a joint company by Boeing, Skunk Works, and Lockheed Martin, idling, letting out a thin trail of black smoke behind it rising in the air. He knew what kind of capabilities the machine had, VTOL anti grav, Hyper Light drive, subspace and atmospheric drives making it the most versatile aircraft in existence and the fastest aero space craft to date but never did he know that a recruit could beat it up so bad to do damage to an engine. The Drooper was a model that had a double engine emplacement in the rear of the craft and had wings thrust in all the way in to the rear, they folded strait up for storage and they laid level in flight and cruising and they swept back in atmospheric attack pattern or thrust sprints, folded down in space attack pattern and swept back and down and a 45 degree angle for hyper harp travel. It had a central dorsal up right top side fin for directional maneuvering. It was capable of atmospheric, real space and hyper warp flight. It had two wingtip laser cannons and two oversized laser cannons running inside of the hull. It also had a small compliment of ballistic and energy torpedoes and some extra equipment such as EVCM and decoy pods. He walked up to the Drooper and surveyed the damage; it?s wings where stored up. The engine was definitely out of commission but still salvage able to be running again providing that the replacement components where available. Cale brought up the schematics to his goggle display and started isolating the problem on the engine, mean while Tee started climbing into the cockpit and began talking to the computer flight log and looking at the records of the vehicles last flight.
The vehicle was a top of the line trainer and pilot combat machine; it could only have certain weapons on and could destroy just as much as it?s near counter part of the MU. Cale got to work on the fighter. The plain?s engine was not damaged enough to be unserviceable -though he did not know how it could be sliced to cleanly on the thrust vector rings- just enough to make the plane land to be grounded onto the runway and to be towed in to the hangar for repairs.
Cale hated when a new pilot busted a perfectly new piece of equipment, especially since they model had not been rebuilt and serviced for factory defects that always come when a new model was shipped to the training base. It took two hours to repair the engine and all Cale needed to do was test the machine and tweak the engine for its original performance parameters. He though of repainting the plain?s scorch marks of the burn out but thought better if it letting the trainees figure out if the plane was really as beat up as it looked. He got to work on the rest of the systems of the plane while Tee switched with him and started checking the primary systems.