We won’t want to take any new orders for a while, so we can be free to concentrate on this.” He hesitated. “As to the cost—” “We’ll sign a contract,” Garth McRae said. “You’ll be guaranteed your costs plus forty percent. The Rudi Kalbfleisch we acquired for a total net sum of one billion USEA dollars, plus of course the cost of perpetual maintenance and repair since the acquisition.” “Oh yeah,” Maury agreed. “You wouldn’t want it to stop working in the middle of a speech.” He tried to chuckle but found he could not. “How does that sound, roughly? Say between one bil and one-five.” Maury said
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