Lt. Leary, Commanding
Lt. Leary, Commanding
“Leary, Commanding @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } CHAPTER EIGHTLt. Daniel Leary sat at the command console in the middle of the Princess Cecile's bridge. In Kostroman service the console had been fixed facing the bow; now it would rotate 360 degrees in accordance with the most modern RCN practice, so that the captain could watch what was happening down the axis of C Level by dimming his holographic display to a fifty-percent mask.Pasternak, the chief engineer—new to... the corvette but a man with an excellent record both on paper and in the opinion of Sissies who'd served under him on other hulls—came up from A Level. The smile he wore on the companionway faded as he turned toward the bridge, facing Daniel at last with an expression of gray concern."Captain," he called across the bustle of the bridge, "I've a full crew and the stores are catalogued, but I don't vouch for the quality of either till we've had time to work up properly.""Very good, Mr. Pasternak," Daniel said.MoreLess
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