4-043: Aboard Snark 416
Within two Cycles, Oliver has finished all the exercise books. The remaining few books don’t seem to contain any more major discoveries, although the very last book (the most recent General Account) has a note about ‘collect a new test router from the mail from Wu’. Now he has completed all the books, I’ll say Oliver can have a roll on Research to see if he can glean anything extra from the exercise books.
He then dedicates full time to his programming and is still working on it on GB02 211.329 when Alan calls him to the Control Room for the approach to the dock.
The Snark has been directed to dock at the station in orbit around Zargonia’s moon, Paitchonia; apparently only very special interstellar VIP traffic is permitted to approach Zargonia directly.
On the scanners, Oliver picks up a lot of traffic in system. Not only does this system have a huge amount of commercial cargo and passenger traffic, Zargonia is also permanently patrolled by the Dominion’s Home Fleet. Indeed, the Snark has been shadowed by its very own Legion Navy patrol ship for the last four days.
All is well, however, and the Snark is able to dock without incident.
The order comes through to stand by for customs inspection.
Roll research 9 v base 12.
Mental Note Wu was probably more involved than he let on.
Oliver is glad everything is going smoothly, but is getting anxious about the idea of the crowds on Zargonia.
I’ll attend the customs check like I did last time.