“Sir,” Desai turned in the copilot seat to look at the Flying Dutchman’s current commanding officer. “Space combat is complicated for certain, but the problem out here is that everything we do is extraordinarily complicated. I don’t think Colonel Bishop and Skippy could make toast without a fourteen step plan that involves us warping spacetime, and hacking into alien computer systems.” Chang laughed. “And carving up asteroids, don’t forget about that. Maybe it is just the Merry Band of Pirates that makes everything horribly complicated,”
