Lieutenant Commander Clayton Oldfield was a long-service “nuke,” having primarily worked fast attack boats. However, with the changes made in the Blade, and especially in the Blade II, he was as good a choice as any for the job of engineering officer. Frankly, nobody really understood the Blade's new systems except the Hexosehr and while he was glad they finally had repair manuals, the sections on the ball guns were impenetrable to him despite a Ph.D. in nuclear physics. The commander was also not a cat person. He currently had no pets but if anyone asked he'd probably admit to preferring dogs. So the intensity with which he'd taken to the Savannah was as much a surprise to himself as anyone else. “Not that anyone has noticed, sir,” Sub Dude said. “Where do you get one of these guys?” he asked, tossing the ball down the corridor. “From a breeder,” Red said. “All you need is about four thousand dollars and a good home.”
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