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GSS Hunter
Alliance Central Station
Orbiting Earth's moon
4142.7.7 Galactic
"GSS Hunter to Alliance Station. Permission to enter parking orbit." Gears released the com button.
"This is Alliance control. Permission granted." This was followed by the geosynchronous coordinates, which Gears keyed into the onboard navigation interface. One mistake could result in a collision and very likely atomization, either by the collision or by an Alliance warship’s weapons for violation of instructions. The navy didn’t believe in unintentional errors. They'd seen it happen several times, so Gears was very careful and checked the coordinates twice; hence the manual entry of the coordinates, which the onboard nav computer could have handled without human intervention.
Nick sat in the copilot’s sea
