While Dinah was having tea with Eriane and Isabella, Tim was working on overdrive.Thousands of Lynxmice scoured Sky Haven. They sped through the ventilation shafts. They lurked among the maintenance tunnels. They spied and bugged and stalked and staked out all manner of Enetari. Once suspicions were confirmed, rogue Enetari began to disappear off the streets.They called themselves the Enetari Renaissance, committed to ‘restoring Enetari superiority across the galaxy’, a greater vision than the ‘already great’ Enetari at home. For the sake of their superiority, they would stop at nothing where their lessers (such as the Sorrelians and basically everybody who wasn’t Enetari) were concerned.Tim had another name for them; Enetari Radicals. He caught them attempting sabotage, planting explosives, stealing cheesecakes, and riling up Woofers with bribes of lamb-flavored kibbles in attempt to turn them against the local adm

In the following month, most of Starbright’s assets were dismantled and shipped to Star System Crimson. Their Shipyards and other facilities were placed in orbit around Crimson Sands, taking full advantage of its abundance of iron and other metals. The Nanoline Manufactory and Matter Compressor were finally finished and brought to full functionality there.The first Star Hearth Shipyard was built as the second month came around. It was rather scrappy and clunky comapred to the streamlined Long Haul and Turtle shipyards, but Benny assured Remian that it would do the job.Starbright started building the first Cruiser slowly. The project stalled several times and there were a few stumbles, but by the third month, the general form of the Cruiser was coming along well.By that time, Sky Haven itself was ready for dismantling and shipping. It and a smattering of defense stations, space farms and other mobillized space stations were still drifting their way toward Sorrel VI, but if necessary

The weeks passed.Day by day the operations and population of the Migration moved from Sorrel to Crimson. Star Hearths hauled Space Farms and Arcologies from Star System Sorrel to the orbit of Crimson Swamp. Refineries, factories, and assembly lines filled the orbit of Crimson Sands. George’s space fleet, those old ships without warp drives, were scrapped, their materials recycled and used to build newer, warp-capable vessels, or otherwise just carted off with all the other cargo.At last, on new year’s day, Sky Haven itself was separated into chunks, loaded on Star Hearths and hauled to Star System Crimson in one go. It took every Star Hearth in the Migration to do the job all at once, sixty-three Star Hearths and a few dozen Turtles to pick up miscellaneous pieces and anything left of worth in a sort of mop up. From then on, the Migration would be fully based in Crimson.Remian arrived in Star System Crimson in the last Star Hearth to leave Sorrel. With him were Phoebe and Ermine, a

It turned out, 10 million for a Gyrfalcon was actually a massive discount. Starbright’s retail price tag for the new Strike Frigate was 15 million. Just the production costs (including labor) was over 9 million. They only sold them at near-cost because it was to Remian and co.“As for the Stealth Recon Frigate, its codename is ‘Hawk Owl’. We’ve got most of the design done, but we need a couple more things to complete it properly.” Amber reported.“What do you need?” Remian asked.“We need Kuriel and null-grav materials.” Amber answered.Remian almost fell on his face. “Are you kidding me? Where would we get those? Are we supposed to raid a military warehouse in the Draconian Dominion or the Quarin Coalition? Buy it off an auction from the Blue Star Conglomerate? Even if we had the money, I don’t think they make deliveries out here any more!”“Actually, we won’t have to leave Star System Crimson.” Amber cleared her throat. “It seems there’s a Tuskan shipwreck in the inner asteroid belt

Benny closed his eyes and leaned back on his chair with a sigh. He’d been busy studying scans, schematics and reports on various ships across Star System Crimson for six hours straight and sorely needed a break.Most of the ships in the refugee fleets of the other factions weren’t very interesting, but there were a few he felt he could learn from, including one of Cameron’s, two of the Woofer refugees, a dismantled Kanonasian vessel, and the Tuskan shipwreck bought from Six Sided Harmony.Of course, the most interesting by far was the shipwreck, but there were plenty to learn in the other ships as well. Power distribution and regulation systems, structural reinforcement, the use of nanolines and semi-compressed materials… Benny felt there was no end to it.“Still here?” Amber came up to him. “Everyone else has already left.”Benny glanced at the chrono. It was nine at night. Of course everyone else had already gone home. “What about you? You’re still here.”“I wanted to tweak a few th