"Sure," says Shephard, "although alls her technical documents'n operating manuals're back home just at the moment."
He scratches his nose briefly, thinking.
"Ship's name is Borealis, and she was built by a company name of Aperture Science for testing a whole lot of weird-ass shit. Portals, mostly. She's a high latitude research vessel and polar icebreaker. Three hunnert ninety-nine foot long, eighty-three and a half foot in the beam, thirty-one feet of draft. Nuclear powered- nuclear fission. Two reactors with two steam turbines drivin' six generators. Built for a crew of two hunnert sailors, officers, 'n Marines, plus fifty scientists, and she'll do six to eight months at sea without putting into port- that's if she ain't doin' the portal thing instead, that's a whole 'nother story."
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He scratches his nose briefly, thinking.
"Ship's name is Borealis, and she was built by a company name of Aperture Science for testing a whole lot of weird-ass shit. Portals, mostly. She's a high latitude research vessel and polar icebreaker. Three hunnert ninety-nine foot long, eighty-three and a half foot in the beam, thirty-one feet of draft. Nuclear powered- nuclear fission. Two reactors with two steam turbines drivin' six generators. Built for a crew of two hunnert sailors, officers, 'n Marines, plus fifty scientists, and she'll do six to eight months at sea without putting into port- that's if she ain't doin' the portal thing instead, that's a whole 'nother story."