Chuck "paged" through the various information items that his Star neural net search had dropped into his in box. He found it ironic in the extreme that people who had resorted to mutiny and piracy on the grand scale were shielding themselves behind the label of Zoners, and invoking that reputation as protection.
It would be bitterly amusing to see how that all played out, since it obviously had more politics involved than a disgruntled employee base that Chuck had heard nothing about prior to the event, but that was no longer his concern.
An initial survey from space of Ithaca station had revealed that it still seemed structurally sound leaving aside repairs, but he hoped to get the Junkers more involved, since they had at least as much knowledge, if of a different sort, as he did. It would be enlightening to see what they came up with about the facility.
Less enlightening, but still needing to be dealt with, was the Liberty bureaucracy. Records research had left him with no definitive conclusions about ownership of the wreck, and it was obviously in space that the Liberty government had control of. He figured that he could start looking into that tomorrow.
He knew that the base wasn't used to formal flight plans beyond requests to be inserted into the flight patterns, but Chuck figured that giving a 12 hours' warning would give him time for anyone from Higher in the Junkers' food chain to short stop him if they felt the need. That being the case, he opened a Comms channel to La Fort and put in a formal departure request for 1800.
