The Reality Dysfunction

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Author: Peter F. Hamilton Source: My Clippings.txt

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[…] wings in their forward-sweep position. The additional tanks and power cells Joshua had strapped on for flights to the Ruin Ring were gone; a couple of suited figures and a cyberdrone were trying to remove the thick foam from the fuselage with a solvent spray. Crumbling grey flakes were flying off in all directions. ‘What were you expecting?’ Joshua asked. ‘A Saturn V?’ He was strapped into a restraint web behind a cyberdrone operations console. The boxy drones ran along the rails which spiralled up the bay walls, giving them access to any part of the docked ship. Three of them were currently clustered round an auxiliary fusion generator, which was being eased into its mountings at the end of long white waldo arms. Engineers floated around it, supervising the cyberdrones which were performing the installation, mating cables, coolant lines, and fuel hoses. Joshua monitored their progress through the omnidirectional AV projectors arrayed around his console. ‘More like a battle cruiser,’ Meyer said. ‘I saw the power ratings on those nodes, Joshua. You could jump fifteen light-years with those brutes fully charged.’ ‘Something like that,’ he said absently. Meyer grunted, and turned back to the starship.

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