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"That's good," Harry said with a chuckle. "I can't remember the last time you two argued at all, except maybe about that one runic array, the one that you tried to place on your clothing, Master?"
"Let's not bring that up," Fay said hastily, flushing in a manner Harry had rarely if ever seen before from her.
Lily had been proven correct on that one: cloth could not sustain the power of a runic array. In a moment of surprising stubbornness Master Fay had attempted the reinforcement array only to realize what exactly happened when a runic array overloaded the material it was etched, or in this case drawn, onto. It had been extremely embarrassing for her, and she thanked the Force that Harry had gone to bed a few hours before that, leaving only Lily to see. Her friend's laughter at her mistake still rang in Fay's pointed ears, but at the moment, the memory actually served to calm her down somewhat, and she chuckled, leaning forward to ruffle Harry's hair.
She paused a moment, chuckling again. "I just realized that soon I might have to reach up to do that, Harry."
Harry blushed in pleasure at that, catching her hand in his and kissing the back of it gently. "No matter how big I grow, you'll still be my Master," he said, his eyes shining at her and his mother. The way he said the word 'master' added bit more meaning to it, which both women smiled at, knowing that he really meant 'mother' there. "Now," he said, leaning back but still smiling brightly at them both. "What was this argument actually about?"
The two women looked at one another, and Fay gestured to Lily to start. "You know how we're coming up on the time where that one Lucrehulk will be turned over to the Jedi Order?"
Harry nodded. He knew that very well, he and Aayla having gone out of their way to talk to Padme at least once every month since they had come back to Serenno. He also knew that the various construction projects on Naboo were proceeding apace, and the alliance between Naboo, Serenno, and Kashyyyk was thriving at this point. Despite knowing that a Jedi shouldn't feel pride for his accomplishments in that manner, Harry was a little bit proud of that.
"I want to focus all of the efforts of you, me, and the other students learning runes on the ship as soon as it arrives. I've looked at the design with Master Fay, and there is a lot we could do with a ship of that size with such massive cargo capacity. You know how we're limited in how much you can expand an area. I want to create a defensive juggernaut," Lily said, looking over at Fay.
Fay nodded and began to input a few commands into the room's computer, and a small holographic generator popped up, showing the ship in question. "We could put one, maybe even two planetary sized shield generators in that ship!" Lily said expansively.
From there she began to list off a few arithmantic equations, gesturing at the holding areas of the ship. The image began to expand under Harry's direction now as he followed her words on how far they could expand its space using a runic expansion array. Harry was looking at the design thoughtfully, having had much the same idea, though he hadn't made the jump to planetary sized shield generators, and of course he had had no time over the past half a year to think about the project.
Size of the generator, power, and area covered were the three things that affected shield strength. The more generators, the greater redundancy in the shield. The more power, the greater the shield strength; and the smaller the area, the stronger the shield can be over its surface.
"Mind you, nothing we can do with runes will effect the outer hull of the ship, so we won't be able to do much to its personal offensive power. Although they could carry a lot more starfighters like those Vultures," Harry mused, staring at the design thoughtfully.
"Perhaps, but we are going to run into problems whatever we do," Fay cautioned. "Remember that while we can enlarge space, we cannot multiply what is there. I also disagree with the thrust of what the ship should be used for."
Harry nodded. That was something they had run into several times. Space expansion arrays expanded space and the things in the actual wall, but they did not then duplicate the things sticking out of the wall. An example would be that the array could extend the wiring set into the wall to a certain extent, but could not duplicate the lights set into those walls. And if the control runs were not continuous, if they had breaks, then you had to replace them too. Experimenting on Master Fay's yacht had, in a way, forced Lily and Master Fay to become somewhat expert electricians, with Harry right alongside them.
"Further, I am worried about the secret aspect, and am unwilling to turn all of our attention onto this project," Fay went on. "While I have no doubts about Shaak's ability to keep a secret, I would still prefer to keep her and the others well away from truly game changing-concepts, at least for a few more months. It is not their ability to keep a secret that I doubt, it is their understanding that they should keep it in the first place, even from other members of the Order."
"That's a very thin line, master," Harry said, smiling at her and shaking his head. "I understand your point, though.
Fay nodded. "Further, the project itself is too large and would be far too time-consuming. On top of that, there's no way we could run the ship as it is. We would have to robotize the ship to an even greater degree than before. And I do not trust computers or robots that far. Astromech units are fine, but a full robotic crew? There's a reason the Katana Fleet is regarded as one of the worst disasters in Republic history."
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