Do you know how much it costs to run a starship? I didn’t. When your entire adult life is spent in the Navy, trivialities like the cost of operating the ships you serve on don’t often come up. When you need fuel, a tanker is there to provide it. When you need more missiles, a tender comes alongside, and you’re good to go. When your uniform wears out, you get a new one from the quartermaster. When you need booze, you find whatever still the enlisted spacers have set up, and you ‘confiscate’ it and the product. And on and on and on.
