Death Star Port Shielding Proposal

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Prepared for:
Wilhuff Tarkin
Grand Moff
Galactic Empire

Prepared by:
Corellian Enterprises
Effective through: December 2, 2023

The leader in space station maintenance.

Unshielded Exhaust Ports

Cost Millions in Extra Maintenance, Could Lead to Catastrophe

The Death Star needs to vent a lot of heat from reactors, trash composters, and other sources. While some of the heat is captured for energy, as part of the Empire's new "Green Jobs" program, much of it must be vented to the surface. Unfortunately, these thermal exhaust ports are unshielded, so in addition to letting heat out, they let a lot of other things in. For example:

• In Sector 7, debris from a TIE Fighter collision damaged the port casing, penetrating the tube walls, and caused a fire in a munitions locker, killing 3 and causing more than 80,000,000 credits worth of damage.
• In Sector 243, mynocks from a departing freighter entered a thermal exhaust port and managed to chew through some power cables deep in the core, knocking out refrigeration units, which caused the spoilage of several thousand credits worth of beer. The ensuing melee in the cantina resulted in 5,000,000 credits worth of damage.
• In Sector 42, a maintenance droid got stuck in an exhaust port, forcing us to shut down the port, along with reactor 22. This cost us thousands of credits worth of overtime, as we had to reroute power from other reactors to the Animal Farm. We also had to spend thousands sending more maintenance droids to remove the stuck droid, resulting in the loss of the stuck droid (a 700,000 credit brand-new unit). The delay also meant more overtime, as we had to scramble to hook up the Emperor's satelite dish so he could view the latest episodes of Real Housewives of Coruscant.

The dozens of unshielded exhaust ports have already cost milions, and can easily be shielded for a small fraction of the damage caused to date, and the estimated damage in the next several weeks. This is a project that pays for itself quickly in both money and time spent fixing situations arrising from the unshielded exhaust ports.

A Grave Threat to the Death Star Itself

However, there is an even greater issue at stake here: there is a chance, however unlikely, that a rebel starfighter could deposit an explosive into one of the exhaust ports connected to the main reactor and cause a chain reaction powerful enough to destroy the entire Death Star. Lord Vadar insisted that the main reactor be isolated from the rest of the battle station to prevent just such an attack. However, cost and schedule overruns precluded the installation of the original design, and attempts to cover the vents were discarded due to difficulties with the metric to Imperial measuring units conversion.

Fortunately, we now have a straightforward, cost-effective solution.

About Our Team

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We have been serving the Empire since its beginning, selflessly toiling for the good of our troops. Our former CEO believes in the Empire so much he resigned his corporate position to serve as Vice President of Procurement on the Death Star, where his diligence and attention to detail will make sure that the Emperor is never overcharged. (His efficiency is highlighted by his ability to get great deals for the Empire through his faster "no-bid" contracting process.)

Our Team

We put together elite teams of nuclear engineers. This one will be headed by one of our rising stars, Homer Simpson. Homer manages the team of 3 droids, each of which works 150 hours per week (far more efficient than human contractors-- even Vader has trouble getting more than 120 hours a week out of them).

[While it's a great idea to give your team a face, you should probably put more flattering portraits in your actual proposals. Consider having a photograher take some pictures of your team.]

Experience with Nuclear Systems

IT Technologies has decades of experience with nuclear systems, including Star Destroyer reactors and construction on the Death Star itself.