“When you’re settled, come back down to the lounge. Basil should be home in the next half-hour or so, and we’ll get acquainted.”Basil Alcott a...d James Weatherby were remarkably similar in appearance, both over six feet, solidly built, with broad shoulders. Emily and Margaret watched as the two men felt each other out. The first point of contact was their shared liking for Scotch Whisky; a minor disagreement over the best distilleries was a trivial matter. They’d both served briefly, on a. His father never made him work, he purchased him a car, which he promptly demolished and his dad bought him another. When he was 18 he moved out due to an argiment with his dad. His dad had a bad heart and developed CHF and he moved back. His dad died not too long afterward. So he was left the house and a large endowment. That was 25 years ago. In the man time he has been through a few girlfriends until he met the woman he got pregnant and married. She is older than him, She is 50, a few years. “So they have more than one,” Grand Admiral Vuspic frowned. “Most disturbing.”“Gershonian Fleet has put a shot across their bow,” the scout informed us. “It’s launching its internal fleet; detecting fire control scanning!”“I don’t think the Gershonians should engage away from fixed defences,” Admiral Arconti stated. “Their fleets, whilst good, are not powerful enough to take on this thing. I’m not even sure a single fleet of ours could.”“Too late,” I replied as the sphere opened fire at the. The suit's processor core had a software mis-load of the military override routines. I didn't think that a mis-load of the overrides on a military project was such a bad thing! Hmm. It was already marked for destruction. If I was snarky enough they'd never notice that it was gone. They'd just be missing a confirmation signature for the thing's pickup.I re-packaged it and put it on a rolling stainless steel lab table. From there I cruised over to the other room where I'd seen the fuel cells and.