“Now that Screw Top’s useless information bump has been sufficiently polished, could we return to the unusual frequency of shipments please?” Lincoln was not going to be diverted from the main purpose of the meeting.
“What makes it unusual is that the station is not the nearest to Old Post. Given the transport economics of the circumstances, it would be much more effective to utilize the nearest station to do any planetside shipping. These are direct from the station to Old Post and back again, heavily disguised in the records, visible only in tracking the exhaust trails at the refuelling points. These show that the same craft makes the journey under different routing instruction and flight plans posted from each stage of the journey. This increases the journey time by a factor of four wh
