"I'm good with locks!" Billie said, putting down her beer. "I'm an avionics technician, I repair a lot of different equipment if you give me time to read the tech manual."

[i]But who locks a spaceship?[/i] She wonders in the back of her head. [i]Especially a colony spaceship? It's not like one person could steal anything that big. You'd need at least seven qualified people to make a go at it. Did some bureaucrat think that spaceship theft was something that happened up here?[/i]

"Anyone know if it's got supplies loaded?" Billie asked, looking around. "We're not going anywhere without supplies."