Source of Strength

An exhausted Joshua embraced his wife as she returned to their grand stateroom.

"I was worried about you." He said as he kissed her cheek. "Anything could have happened on that alien ship. What if those crazy pakklatons blew up their power reactors and propellants all at once? Swordmaster or not, there is no way you can survive an attack that can engulf an entire vessel!"

Ketis huffed. "Don't underestimate me. My intuition is just as sharp as yours. Before heading off to battle, I made sure to study the scans and blueprint of the evacuation ship closely. The pakklaton civilian-grade power reactors aren't that volatile. Just like human power reactors, they are built with many safeguards. A single engineer can't just blow them up by introducing a few faults. You need to deactivate a lot of safeties and deliberately create cascading faults. It takes a lot of time and effort to perform this kind of work."

Her words did not reassure Joshua that much.