Helton: Proper parts have been a royal pain to get. A lot of stuff is very nonstandard. Allonia: But mostly in a good way. Helton: We’re running at less than half power, even though we have six drive cores more or less functional- Quiritis: All six? Cooper: I’d be happy to show you around the three Harmon and three Sokolov, show you how they work. The others look askance at his obvious ploy. Helton: And both main power systems nominally up. Made good money on our last job, hauling ammo delivered a week ago, but it’s almost spent already. Mostly on parts. Colonel Lag- Cooper: -a Plataean we work with- Helton: -still hasn’t gotten paid for a, um, large piece of hardware we picked up for him, so income’s a little uncertain right now. When he does get paid, it’ll likely be worth a couple million to us, but Stenson has about fifty million in parts he wants ordered lined up.
