Chapter 10
Naval intelligence sent two bodyguards with me. We left on the regular commuter shuttle.
It was funny, in a morbid way. When other crew members saw me standing in line, they postponed, or just flat-out refused to board the shuttle.
So much for trust. I almost had to pilot it myself.
Command had to ask for a volunteer pilot. I had heard that the bounty on me was over $150 million credits. It would almost make me want to kill myself, to collect the money!
Flight time was pretty short, less than a day.
No one died.
Never having been here before, it was a real treat.
The New Madrid shipyard was simply HUGE. It covered all of the orbitals surrounding a small moon-like asteroid. That chunk of rock was used for the shipyard’s raw material and was one the largest mining operatio
