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The Gears Grind on part 3

With the future plan set, the Institute sent teams of engineers outside into the rocky inhospitable desert terrain beyond the city to seek out the crashed Imperial ships in search of the final pieces. This piece being the Arium core. Kromkarie did not yet have the technology required for such a device and thus 2 battleships lacking cores would wait till one was extracted and reverse engineered. For days institute engineers would tear these ships apart to uncover their arium cores.

Weeks later Omnivisor Vincent Hick is called to the Institute to witness a test of the first Kromkariean Arium core, meeting the Institute Supervisor Theodore Dolloway.

Vincent Hick disembarks from the Institute Express out front of the building, "Greetings Supervisor Dolloway." Hick says while extending his hand. "I am proud to finally happy to hear about the successful testing of an arium core."

Dolloway shakes Hick's hand, "Greetings sir, we are ready and waiting with the latest test if your will step this way."

Dolloway leads Hick into the building passing the heavily armed guards and security checkpoints. After walking for a considerable amount of time they finally reach the containment room housing the new device. Dolloway walks up to the bulk door and inputs a mechanical security code in a nearby console. After some metal lock sounds, the door begins to screech open revealing a room full of scientist with a giant spherical object floating in the air held down by chains, with a cylindrical axle protruding out one end and into an engine. "By the Machine! It is beautiful." Vincent exclaims while holding back a tear from his eye. "How does it work compared to the regular arium cores we extracted from the Imperial Cruisers?"

The chief scientist Kronkarius walks over to Dolloway handing him the technical specs for the device, "Thankyou Chief. When testing the arium cores that were extracted from the Imperial ships, we noticed that if the arium is spun at high speeds the lift generated from it is significantly increased making it possible for the of building larger ships and controlling altitude using the core. These cores should be far more capable than the ones used by the Empire as far as we are aware. As you can see the device is rather large. The Arium core is made up of two parts that have now been designed to be interchangeable in case of replacement, the large sphere housing contains the arium that is attached to the engine that makes it spin."

"This is amazing, how much longer till it is ready for the ships." Hick says.

"This should be the final test before we can begin production of a standardised model."

"Commence the final testing!" Dolloway shouts. "Pull the lever Kronkarius!"

Several scientists rush over to various mechanical consoles beginning the start-up procedure, "All go! Commence fire-up sequence." The Engine bursts to life in a cloud of smoke while ventilation systems attempt to deal with the it, "Second stage Sequence initiated." The core within the sphere begins to turn with an high pitch wind as the chains holding the core down start to strain. "3rd stage sequence initiated, the engine has reached idle speed and is now ready for speed tests."

Dolloway pointing at one of the scientists, "Engage engine to 30%." The scientist pushes the lever forward slightly causing the engine to get louder and louder increasing the high pitch winding sound, along with the chains creaking under the increasing strain from the core. "Increase to 50%". Once more the scientist pushes the lever forward more increasing the engines power, some of the chains begin to break as the machine increases in power. "Increase to full power!". The engine picking up speed now drowning out all other sounds with it raw power spins the core extremely fast leading to several of the chains breaking under the strain of holding it down, as well as the axle coming loose from the arium itself within the sphere. Soon the arium tears away from it mount and rips open the sphere blasting up towards the reinforced ceiling while the core crashes to the ground.

The scientists begin to cheer as the core worked. "A successful test I must say", says Dolloway while looking toward Hick.
"I couldn't agree more," Hick replies.

Chief scientist Kronkarius walks over to Dolloway, "With this information, all we must do is reinforce the mounting of the arium core and production should begin shortly after."

After several weeks of production the first two arium core are mounted into the ship via the core access rail designed into each ship. The cores would be named the Comet I Arium Core