Tonguez said:
"I say we get moving" Tomas grimaces "we've got some upset people behind us and the sooner we have space between us and them the sonner we can deal with the comms at our leisure. I'm sure the other boat has a competent crew and can look after themselves..."
"I agree." He speaks into the channel: "Beta, request we tell Mr. Nells Corzin to flip off for now, while we get the hell away from him. Will attempt to establish better communications in 20 minutes. Repeat: Request we leave now, restore communications in zero-two-zero minutes. Over."
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In the other boat, as Trelen is working on the comm, everyone hears the following:
request ...tell Mr....llsCorzin...flip off...now....we ...the hell away...him. ...attempt....blish better commun...in ...minutes. ...peat.... we leave now.... cations... in ..o-two-zero .... Over.
In just a few seconds, however, Trelene is able to bost the signal to the point where she thinks any transmissions they make to the other boat with go through clearly. When she tells Julia so, she sends a message back.
"Ker-Alpha, this is Ker-Beta. Understood and agreed - Trelene has already got us shouting over the interference, though. We'll discuss it in twenty. Will commence launch sequence now. Ker-Beta out."
She then begins transmitting the authorization codes to the Keruuchan. "Depressurize hangar, authorization Julia Darius 983679a...
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The men on the other boat receives the message clearly, and a few seconds later, the lights in the hangar turn red, indicating the imminent depressurizatino of the hangar. one of the crates that had been stored inside a boat, but which now sat on the floor of the hangar egins to swell, and ultimately explodes, spraying alcoholic beverages and glass throughout the large room. The debris and droplets begin floating around the room as the gravitics of the hangar are deactivated. Julia's voice comes over the coom: "Oh yeah... guess our Vice Preisdent will need to find another gift for the JohnHenry manager when they dock. Over."
Finally, the outer door begins to slide up, and instanty the droplets floating about become a dazzaling, and harmless, field of ice crystals. Nells-Corzin has positioned the Keruuchan so that the hangar directly faces Tamadere's large yellow sun, but it's more an annoyance than anything else, what with the shielding on the boat's windows.
Saanath engages release the magnetic locks holding his boat in place, and eases the boat out of the hangar. Ruzz'koff does the same with Ker Beta moments later.
The course to the Dvonn takes the boats towads the front of the Keruuchan, as it's currently oriented, the bridge where Nells-Corzin is surely perched clearly visible and lit up brilliantly by the star.
