Chapter 4

During our trip, all the planetary experts are able to wander around the ship as they please, but the flight crew, who man the cockpit as watchmen of sorts, work around a strict shift rotation. They alternate shifts in pairs with the fifth shift off, so each member of the flight crew gets a break every now and then that doesn’t just get spent just sleeping. This meant that it was a while before I’d become properly acquainted with most of them, but as it turned out, they were pretty much all d...