Traan had spent the last few shifts getting acclimatized to his latest new role. Leading a shift as a Shipyard Operations Officer was more akin to acting as a orchestral maestro then anything else. He had noticed that his best vantage point for the ‘big stuff’ was usually as the third man in the ‘well’ in Shipyard Central. He had the joint plot, internal and external comms, right at his finger tips there.

The day before though(his first shift as ‘leader’) he had asked permission to park a workbee outside the bay doors on the far side of Central. The bay doors led to a large open deck space, with access to the workbee hive across the way, and one of the fabrication yards along the back wall. Having the workbee there, would then allow Traan the opportunity to be out in the ‘yard’ observing his crews directly during the down times on shift.

‘Has Charlie Crew finished up with dock blocks and gantries for that new build to start tomorrow yet Hart?’

‘Not yet sir, they haven’t even called for the last load of gantryways to be delivered yet. Maybe they’re planning on finishing after lunch sir…’ Petty Officer Hart said non-chalantly from the internal comms station in the well.

‘Hmmm, I’m gonna fly over there and have a look, you got things covered here. If you need anything hit me on my comm.’ He departed and went to jump in his workbee and go have a look at what was going on down in bay 6.

The shipyard itself had a dozen massive bays in just this central section alone. The starship construction crews were mobilizing to begin laying the keel of a new Gagarin class ship the next day. But they wouldn’t be able to begin work until his crews had finished building the grantrys, scaffolding and dock blocks(massive angular blocks that the bottom of the new ships hull would rest on while being built).

Traan was going to figure out what the hold up was, and if they needed to send some extra people or crews over to help them out. Before construction could begin, the entire bay would have to be reviewed and inspected by Shipyard safety officers. Though they were notionally apart of the same section as Traan, the ‘inspectors’ were often an archnemesis of everyone on the ‘operational’ side.