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"Salvage, huh? This vacsuit has a guy's nametag in the neckstrap. Is this a real N-six-oh-eight?"
"Yeah, but the cartridge is fake."
"Why didn't you use it to bluff Haven?"
"He already knew about the cartridge."
"Ash... you mind telling me what's going on? Everything?"
"I finally narrowed down the list of your possible trajectories to three habitable worlds. It was the stellar cartography you taught me! Grandma and Grandpa thought I was crazy. They said we should just say you were dead and I could live in their estate in secret for the rest of my life. But I knew you were still alive! I could just... I knew it."
"The universal resonance."
"Yeah. The explosion propelled you far off the charts. I knew I needed a fast ship. A really fast ship."
"An Imperial courier ship."
"It was the only class of ship that could get me to those planets faster that the Space Police could follow."
"You mean the Space Police are on your... wait a second, the Empire only docks its courier ships in secure bays. How did you get that burner past the snoop?"
"I didn't. I stole one of the N-608s from the weapons locker after I got inside."
"And then you loaded the fake cartridge-"
"As long as it looked real I figured nobody would take the chance."
"Haven?"
"He took the chance. But by then it was already too late for a boarding. He caught back up to me when I was breaking orbit over the second planet on the list. He must have followed me here after that."
"For a guy who's only half Circuit-Man, he was a total pain in the-"
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