Kess treated Neilson to lunch in South Base in order to make the time to talk about the clearing standards. They came up with a conservative three-month plan, grounding the entire compliment for overhauls and repairs, not clearing any of them to fly until they were all clear to fly. After that, they would only have to fix things as they broke rather than frantically patch up old problems between drills.
For as much of a big, strong, war veteran as Neilson was, he oddly lacked the balls to stand up against Commander Skywalker. Kess offered to be the one to take the heat and assured Neilson that the Jedi wouldn't lose his lid when he saw the ship stat report.
After a lot of convincing, Neilson finally agreed to the plan. The lure that Rogue Repair would get the opportunity to catch up was
