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asked
Miriam.
    I waved them in, and into lounge chairs.
    “We need to thank you sir,” said
Commander Bowrey.
    “What for?” I responded.
    “You saved everyone on Yorktown and
the ships on her hull, when you told them to push us down. If you hadn’t
ordered that action, the first ship through would have torn us apart.”
    Greer and Miriam nodded.
    “I’m also the one who put you there in
the first place. I think the one negates the other.”
    “No sir,” said Bowrey
emphatically. “We’d been on the ready line since seven in the morning. We
were all lined up until your suggestion changed our deployment. Without that
change, none of us stood a chance. The first two ships were designed for
tearing debris fields apart, and pushing the bits out of the down jump area.
They would have torn through most of us before we even knew what was happening.
The next wave would have down jumped into what was left, and completed the job.
Until your suggestion changed things, we were already dead, and didn’t know it
yet. You gave us all a chance to survive.”
    “Thank you,” they all said
together.
    I looked at them with a lack of
understanding. I’d almost killed them, and they thanked me for saving them?
What sort of logic was that?
    “You’re welcome,” I said.
“Please don’t make me do it again.”
    They laughed. I looked at Greer.
    “You look like you need some sleep
Commander.”
    “Ah, yes sir. How long before our
ships will be ready to fight again?”
    “The parts they need should be here
soon. The repairs will begin with the Corvettes, followed by the Excalibur’s,
and finally the fighters. You have time to get some sleep. Jane will wake you
when your ship is ready for you, or team coms will wake you if something
happens. In the meantime, I need you rested for the next phase.”
    “Yes sir.”
    The three of them rose, saluted, and left.
    I assembled an email for Lieutenant Colonel
Ashdale, including a brief summary of what I’d heard, and the recording of the
meeting. The reports from all the captains would fill in the blanks.
    Not long after sending it off, the
freighter landed on the Flight Deck, and was transported down to be unloaded.
    Jane and I discussed how to go about
finding the other habitable planet or moon, and any other inhabited structures
in the Midgard system. Especially given the nav scanners didn’t work properly
there.
    An hour or so later, she informed me the
last of the captains had left, as had the freighter on its second run.
    I moved back to the Bridge.
    “Where are we at?” I asked Jane.
    “The three ships you wanted in Midgard
have jumped. The remaining Gunbus went with them. Repairs to Greer’s Starman
have begun. She should be ready to undock, and give her place to the last
Gunbus, in an hour or so. We are go for returning to Midgard.”
    “Starman?”
    “They went with using their call signs
as ship names.”
    I smiled at that. Easy solution. Fighters
generally weren’t named. But Corvettes always were, and so usually were
Privateers. Although Gladiator convention was to tag a number on the end. All
ships were named with the class and a number to start with, but this was
changed when the owner took possession. The two Camels for example, were
currently named Camel 01 and Camel 02, since they’d been pressed into war
service instead of me taking delivery normally. Among capital ships, the first
in the class was named a way the rest of the class would follow. Hence the
Actor class, with the names of ships being past actors who were now immortal. Using
call signs to name what were larger than usual fighters, was a great idea.
    “Jump us out of here Jane.”
    “Confirmed.
    We jumped back into Midgard, and I called a
senior officers meeting for as soon as everyone could arrive. I told Jane to
specially make sure Greer wasn’t woken up. He needed the sleep, and he wasn’t
going to be needed for what I had in mind.
    I was sitting in the Conference Room as people
started to