854 Energetic Mornings

The research teams back aboard Absolution must have informed the new team of their usual schedule because when Max and Nico got up at six in the morning for breakfast, the entire team was ready to go. 

They weren't the only ones aboard the vessel, though. Max could sense that there were four people on duty on the bridge and eight more who were asleep, making three shifts of bridge crew for a full rotation. 

None of the bridge crew were Innu, but most of them were not humans either. The Captain of the Watch who was on duty right now was a Giant, as were the other two, while each shift had a Valkia on duty as a weapons officer, which amused Max. The Valkia were always drawn to law enforcement and other combat-related positions, though they had sworn off interplanetary conflicts centuries ago.