CYTM81

=Chapter 81=
==Can you tell me where can we start over?==
KCGS Golden Lake
Boojum Shipyard
Boojum IV Orbit
Kowloon, Lyran Alliance
3067
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Nicole took the helm herself, and guided the wounded warship into the dock at Boojum IV's repair facility, nudging and judging the thrusters to align the quarter-million ton ship  into position for the cradles to close, skeleton-like, over the damaged hull.
Speed: Relative 0 to the dock, she sighed and released the thruster handle.  "Ladies and gentlemen, we're home."
The pressurized Hab-pod extended an umbilical to one of the few undamaged external airlocks, as crews began unrolling the 'baggie' over it-the baggie isn't really necessary, except to keep parts cut away from floating away until the work is complete.
Their three month patrol had lasted a year, a large portion of that year, with battle damage that couldn't be handled in a commercial yard.
At the airlock, Nicole handed out Liberty chits and leave slips, before exiting, the last of her crew to do so, on a well-deserved month off.
The Shuttle to Spider Moon was jubilant, and bulbs of press-liquor and Strooty were being passed around the cabin, and though her officers partook, she did not.
She had an inquiry board to face.  Getting shit-faced before your debrief isn't good form.
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