> > > Del starts to join the group then stops in the /Random Walk's/
> > > hatch and calls out quietly, "If I've got a job here I need to
> > > know, because I just got a comm from /Bright Star/, they want all
> > > the crew back aboard ASAP.
> >
> >  "I think so, Ricardo. Dell, do they have another engineer aboard?"
>
>"Ichiro has some engineering skill, enough to do the job short term, but
>not enough to do all the maintenance and repairs long term." he says,
>"Winter will have to trick another engineer into signing on...eventually."

Woof nods, but not too happily.  Would have been better if they didn't have 
someone else.

>"Why do you *care*?" he asks with a bitter note in his voice, "I know
>*I* don't!"

"I never like to leave a competitor short handed, in a philosophical way.  
In this case, I'll make an exception.  Welcome aboard!  And if you really 
want to screw them over, tell them you'll be there in about a half an 
hour..." Woof laughs.

"So, Ricardo, what's next?"

Woof