CHAPTER 9The hull was completed on the first day. On the second, the generators were trued and their internal adaptations finished. The third saw the armament installed together with the tracking and firing controls: guns that could be fired directly or by remote direction, lasers able to shear through armor plate, and others which vented an assortment of missiles. This was Owen’s domain, and he fussed over the instruments of destruction as if they were precious gems.
Cole was in charge of communications. He arrived with Asner on the fourth day, and both men set immediately to work. Stacey was the doctor.
“Orders from Earth Confederation,” Stacey had said. “From the Comptroller himself. All officers are to be given hypnotuition. Now that the crew has finally been chosen, we may as well g
