Having thus enumerated the problems she would have to deal with, she then began a list of the resources at her disposal.
First, the crew. Everyone aboard was some sort of misfit. Roscil Larramac, she had learned, was pushy, ambitious, overreaching, and greedy in addition to being superstitious, condescending, brash, occasionally charming, sometimes generous and extremely intelligent.
Zhurat had been marginally competent and professionally quarrelsome; well, he was no longer a factor. Lian Bakori would do as he was told and absolutely nothing more; he was a good astrogator, but his Neo-Buddhist leanings meant he practiced the principle of Minimal Involvement. Gros Dunnis was competent and affable, but lazy in the extreme; Dev had found it necessary to build a fire under him any time somet
