The Vega's return

[Quiron]

“Jeremy Stevens here.” A man in his late 50’s reached out his hand to receive the greetings. He was bald yet long-bearded, the mixture of oil, dirt and sweat painted his head, giving it a strange-looking pattern. His disheveled facial hair and messy appearance suggested very long working days.

“I have received the information about your promotion.” said while swiping his nose with his forearm. “Mr. Burton sent it to us through the neural net.” He turned his head towards some tangled cables. As you see we do what we can to bring back this old lady to life. However I don’t know how much time we need. This Rheinlander technology differs a bit from…” Suddenly a big spark enlightened the room followed by a crispy sound and smoke. “God dammit Tommy!” shouted to the source furiously after a few seconds. “Don’t tell me you messed it up again.” scolded a young electrician assigned to cabling work. “If there will be another setback because of you I swear you will end up as alien food.”
He turned back to John. “I wonder how this idiot got his licence for a job like this. Standards are pretty low nowadays…” said cynically.

“Anyway… What I wanted to say Mr. Adams is things are going forward, and if some of my men will be so kind as to not kill us during the process, we can finish replacing the damaged cables with newer ones. This is the first step. During this time I’ll study the structure of the power plant to make our progress as swift as possible.” he finished.

A few seconds of thinking he sighed and with a forgiving tone he turned to Tommy. “Go, get some rest, boy. Jake will substitute you till then.”

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