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Buoy
Оглавление– Hans, what are you doing there? What’s on your screen?
– Corresponding with my girlfriend, sir!
– Hans, you’re out of your mind! We are in another galaxy! The signal will be traveling from here for a million years!
– I’m using hyperspace, sir.
– And how? We did not enter hyperspace! Well, come on, tell me how are you doing that? That’s an order!
– With a rescue buoy, sir.
– You sent a rescue buoy into hyperspace as a repeater?
– Yes, sir.
– But where did you learn this, this is not in the manual!
– At the Academy, sir. In a practical lesson. Everyone was laughing then, sir. It is so simple!
– Do you know why you can’t use a life buoy for this?
– No sir…
– You see, you don’t know, but you still use it!
– But we have two, sir…
– There were two, Hans, but not anymore!
– And where did the second go, sir?
– You don’t need to know that, Hans! But what you need to do is to order a new buoy! Have it teleported during the next session! The lifeboat buoy on the ship is an important safety feature, Hans.
– Yes, sir! Should I write that the old one broke, sir?
– In no case! Buoys don’t break! This will be the first time in buoy history. We do not need that kind of fame!
– Then what should be indicated as the reason why we need a new one?
– The truth, Hans, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth…
– Should I write that the buoy was lost in hyperspace, sir?
– Yep! During the flight safety training that I successfully conducted and which you completed with honors! It was carried away by a meteorite! Or a Russian Sputnik wandering in space in a search of vodka! Whichever you prefer… On second thought, do not write about vodka yet!
– Yes, sir! Serving the System, sir!
– And I congratulate you on that!
