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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Super Girl" data-source="post: 2203017" data-attributes="member: 25964">"I don't think there is anything for it but to let the engines be til we get to the Settlement, I assume they have someway of keeping away the local predators, and fiddling with the engines while we ae moving ain't so hot.  We could still get there, eventually if they went out, but, I doubt we want to spend a week getting there, when we can be there in a few hours if we leave em alone for now."   the ship's pilot suggests, locking in the course, and hiting the auto-pilot to make any minor course corrections that would come up from the wind.Figuring that it had been 3 hours or so, and it would only take another few to get there, she figured it qualified for that woman's restriction, even if she thought the woman had been rude, there hadn't been any pressing need to contact her, so she left it well enough alone.  "This is the Dawnsprinter, we are halfway to your settlement, moving at something like 2% engine power, which'll put us there in 3 hours give or take...Mierra, out of curiosity, do you need any meat?  Last night, we got swarmed by 50 or so things almost twice the size of Masliths, and they climbed on top of the ship to avoid my anti-personnel weapons.  I used ship power to fry the pack, and they are still up on top of the ship.  If you want em, ok, otherwise, I'm gonna roll and drop them off the top."</blockquote>