" My aim?" You fired two torpedoes at the Gray's ship, Sir," the First Officer said."So I did," the captain said. He thought on it a moment and said, ...That's odd! Why would they do that?" Sir, I believe the complement may be their way of saying that the surrender was not necessary." I don't get it," Captain Rainer said. "They are more advanced in their technology than we are, and yet that communication sounded more like a father telling his child that though he lost the game, he did a good. They had developed a computer language which was similar to Lisp which could process scripts so fast that the user thought that he was dealing with a compiled system. The Holorins never bothered with number crunching programs; this type of program was considered to be too trivial to be interesting.The fish had adopted the Holorin computer language to control their FTL spaceships, and were forcing them to adapt their computer language to control other complex machines. It was this boring. Once I was in custody the charges mounted: pandering, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, numerous counts of fraud for the phony invoicing scheme I'd developed, two counts of statutory rape. After the cops searched my home and found a mountain of cocaine, they wanted to charge me with possession with intent to traffic, but my attorney managed to convince the DA's office that it was all for my own personal use (I guess I'd been a little out of control lately), and they reduced the charge. I normally work in purchasing.”“Purchasing is essential in this sort of emergency,” Dr. Moretti answered.“There are people with a lot more experience than me in that department,” Althea pointed out. “I didn’t see any of them in this room.”“This is going to be less about experience and more about adaptability. You’ve worked on setting up three new medical centers in remote locations in less than three years and you were instrumental in arranging to have that Japanese tuna fleet deliver supplies.