Who put those giant bugs in there...
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Talita: The jack measures the Runaway at about 120 kilotons. But the tanks are empty– And I have no idea how much fuel we’re going to get out of that old hydrolysis plant.
Panel background: The empty tank of the Runaway is shown with a moth flying around inside it. The derelict hydrolysis plant interior is shown with a cobweb and spider over it.
Idrisah: Luckily the gatehouse can accommodate day-of changes to mass.
Talita: Good, because I wrote a low estimate.
She looks sheepish.
Talita: 10 tons.
Idrisah squints.
Idrisah: …Will the ship even make it to the wormhole?
Talita: Sure! Just… Very slowly.
Idrisah: Yikes. I guess that’s fine if you can eat sunlight while you coast for decades…
Panel background: The Runaway drifts through space with its solar panels extended.
Idrisah: I go crazy enough on the 2 week trip to Nexus Jovia. Where’s that AI traveling to, anyways?
She hands Talita her tablet back.
Talita: They haven’t said. Without money and assets their options are pretty limited.
