54 To Die For

Sitting at the family dinner table, Silewei took in his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter that sat around him. He felt absolutely content enveloped within their merry chatters.

It was the ninth day after the Hope’s second space-warp. The reparation process for the Hope’s anti-gravitational system was well under way. According to the designated schedule, they would be fixing the shuttle later that night. At the same time, a rudimentary lab would be set up within it so that it could be used to plan and create the new energy circuit.

Simultaneously, the Workshop was working day and night trying to retrieve the information on Ivan’s computer. The computer wasn’t as damaged as they previously thought, and the Workshop had been making headway with their data retrieval programs. According to their prediction, the complete set of data could be restored in a few hours’ time.

And the Hope had four days worth of energy left…