And he was doing things for her. No one else ever had. He was arranging for the car her parents refused her. That showed who really cared for her."Get...your men up here and I'll try to make sure they pay this time," she said, somewhat dejectedly. The idea of hooking wasn't that much to her liking, even if the money was attractive.What else could a fifteen-year-old girl do to earn a couple hundred dollars in less than an hour? And that had been the actual amount Red and Fred paid. Jack had. They approved Jim's plan for building the military ships. There were plans for one Carrier class vessel for each planet in the federation. They would carry fifty fighters per ship, plus 100 fighters would be stationed on each planet. There would be built a total of twelve Battleships with a crew of eight hundred each, twenty-four Cruisers, and two hundred fifty other support ships. With the exception of the fighters, which were too small, all would be equipped with the new warp/jump drive. "AI? How can we recover or destroy the pad after it is used, if there is no one around to pick it up?"Diana, the Admiral, and I all started laughing. A ship or boat at sea always has dust and dirt everywhere. You can't get away from it. If nothing else, just the salt water spray leaves a rime when the water evaporates. Forget identifying the dust. No one would even notice a little bit of extra dust drifting around, on an abandoned fishing boat.With that out of the way we moved on to more. Coming back later that day with a bottle of wine Don was in for a pleasant surprise when Penny opened her door. He could see that besides preparing dinner she had also prepared herself. She was wearing a rather tight dress and had applied what he called all of her war paint or makeup as most people would call it. She looked much better than when he first met her.Before dinner was served she asked him if he wanted a sour apple martini. Since she was having one he agreed to join her. They sipped.