“We should be able to get Lmder way again in a few hours,” be summed up, “but it’ll take longer to get us back in fighting shape. We’ll have to find a place where we can hide out for a while to complete repairs.”
“It doesn’t have to be a planet, does it?” asked Trevelyan.
“Well, just about. If nothing else, I’d like to get some excess mass for the converter-we’re low on it, and you know bow hungry a ship in hyperdrive is. And there might be demands from our weapons, too. Pick up a few tons of something, maybe a couple of meteors. Then our food plant is banged up, too. We can live off preserved stuff if we must, but green vegetables from an E-planet would help morale until we get our own tanks producing again. And we need to recalibrate our instruments, too. I’ll bet the storm raised merry hell with ‘em. That calls for observations taken inside a planetary system. And-”
“Never mind, I see your point. Go to it. Nicl