The Freedom Alliance spent two more days putting the ship together properly and I did my best to provide instructions and explain the schematics. Endless security, endurance, and integrity tests followed the successful assembly of each section.
It wasn’t the largest ship I’d seen in pictures, but it still took most of the huge hotel rooftop. It was built for a crew of thirty men, half the crew in stasis half awake and manning the ship. The bird didn’t require such a large crew to pilot or provide maintenance, so it was easier and more effective to have living quarters and stasis capsules for only fifteen on a spacecraft that big.
“All ready to be tested,” Tom said, an ear to ear grin twisting his face. The man looked more threatening smiling than he did when he was frowning.
“It will ha
