Deeptrans is backed up again. You’re probably back out on-station now, but I’ll torp this off anyway while I’ve got a moment. I managed to win an argument with Tech and pull new drives away from a station-keep in Sector Five and get them routed to you. The Rift hasn’t been a problem, and nothing’s happened in Five for a couple of decades, but robbing Peter to pay Paul will catch up with us all someday. You guessed right on the study thing. When the cost of the FC came in, Senator N’Trosia blew quarks, and they weren’t charmed, either. He yelled about two hundred years of peace and cooperation, and about how we had managed to keep the peace through diplomacy, and how there was no need for a Fast Corvette when the Attack Corvettes were still perfectly functional. Politics! So we got a study. In the meantime, the Admiral—do you remember Hewitt Graylin, the guy who was a dec up on us, the one that set the flic records that are still standing? He’s the new Fleet Admiral for Development, and he just briefed us on the Fuards’ new destroyer.
