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Follow the adventures of the crew of the starship /Akus Moby/ as they explore The Spinward Main.
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HopeAKondrk
Hope A. Kondrk

Wed

Aug 17
2005

20:01



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997.281: Rendezvous

>> It is early morning, just after sunrise, at this longitude, the air
>> outside is warm and balmy, there are only a few puffy white clouds
>> in the distance, and the water is so warm it is almost body temperature.
>>
>> The /Blue Rain/ has a flexible hose 30 cm (about a foot) across. One
>> end can be connected to the ship's fuel take inlet valve and the
>> other dropped into any convenient body of water. The end that drops
>> into the water has a powered pump/filter on it to draw the water in
>> while filtering out debris. Kelly and April will need to haul the
>> hose out into the gentle surf beyond the line where the water
>> recedes on each wave and anchor it there. There is a deployable
>> spiked anchor at that end of the hose to hold it into place. One of
>> them can haul the hose out there, but two makes the job easier.
>> After the hose is deployed, the inlet valve at the ship's skin needs
>> to be opened and the ship's internal pumps activated. It will take
>> about 1.5 hours to fully load the /Rain's/ fuel tanks. That will
>> give the ship enough fuel to make a jump 2. The water can be
>> processed into "refined" fuel in another 1.5 hours, or long before
>> the ship has time to lift off and get to the jump point.
>
> Kelly does so, (I assume) with April's assistance. When the line is
> anchored, he turns to April and hugs her. When he gets a good grip, he
> dunks
> them both in the warm water.

April plays along and gives a little resistance to his playful antics. 
She laughs and squeals a bit as they both splash into the water.  As they
come back up she splashes him and laughs. "Ha! Take that!"

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