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ntal acuity, followed by a shorm
message from the Hawkins Corporation telling me to have a nice day.
Then came the solid green characters:
++ CHARM DRIVE STATUS - HOT STANDBY ++
++ - HELM CONTROL ++
My vision flipped to an external view of the the ship, a view supplied
by Miho's computers directly to my visual cortex. The gravity lines of
local space superimposed themselves in white upon the blackness of
space, a distant ship a red pyramid with the words "CPV890/75 Aleister
Crowley" floating beside it, Rigel 2 a purple distant sphere, red lines
marking incoming and outgoing flight vectors. A green dot flashed
before me indicating that drives were now under my mental command and I
started to invoke the ignition sequences for the neutrino pulse that
would flip Catherine The Great across two hundred parsecs of space on a
wave of tachyons.
++ INCOMING TRANSMISSION - JUMP WILL BE SUCCESSFUL ++
Silvermoon received the same message, whistled Miho's readiness and,
with a flicker of concentration I put the charm drives online.
Twenty seconds before we left Rigel we arrived at Urgenic Deeps Jump
Zone T4. The Charm Drives entered their wind-down sequences and
Sliandra transmitted the message we recei
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