587 587 Impatience

[Hey Nico, how's it going over there?] Max asked later that evening when he noticed the shuttle hadn't yet returned to Terminus.

[All is well. We are waiting on approval from the Alliance Government for some essential work that needs to be done, but all of the basic tasks are already completed, and the Crystal Matrix in all their warp drives has been refreshed.]

Max could sense the excitement in her text commentary, so he assumed she had learned what she had gone there for while they did the repairs and left her to her work.