We have five stations that put the shoes together. They all run off of compressed air. In eight years we have had no problems with the equipment. Toda..., halfway through the shift, the compressed air system froze up. The air used to operate all our machines has to be perfectly dry. It is filtered and dehydrated by automatic equipment that never fails: well almost never. Tonight the dehydrator system failed to vent the collected moisture. I am not a scientist, so all I know is that when moisture. But the Dolphin Clades and the Chimpbol are practically Feds. Who wants to bet they’re more than happy to run out and get those planets – and have decades, centuries, to build population and power bases without UHP oversight. We’re going to be going from a tentative to a factually interstellar species. The UHP will not survive the most fashy of the Upkin getting their own colony planets. Which, by the way, are all ecologically perfected paradise planets.”Lou blinked, then turned to Bea. “He’s. Those that remembered me, commented how much Jeremy junior resembled his father as a young man. I was suitably surprised saying how the adventurous life had aged my father.I had sold my partnership share to George, investing such funds in several ventures before departing. In this, I turned out to be lucky and was wise. I knew that the leaders of the colonies wished to promote their own traders so as to be not dependent on the British companies. I invested in several fledgling trading companies. Gwen’s gaze turned to Tyler as he swam up to her. He had been doing laps in the pool for the last fifteen minutes. ‘How’s everything with Hattie? Is she doing better?’ Gwen hesitated for a moment, captivated by his beautiful blue eyes. They reminded her of the clear waters in the Caribbean that she had seen once on a cruise. He gave a slight smirk as he waited for her to respond. Gwen shook her head clear and mentally distanced herself from him. She did not need him distracting her from her.