<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;">Garner marched through commons, which was all but deserted so early. Just a few colonist workers coming off the night shift. He ignored them just as they did to him, and closed his eyes as he pictured the route to the drop pad. It had been a while since the last supply drop, and even longer since Garner had been present for one himself. Being near that sector always felt dangerously close to being ready to head back to earth: something he'd never felt one single urge to contemplate.<br/><br/>As he located the seldom-used utility door leading to the pad, his PDA chimed with an urgent notice. <em>Great.</em> Had the USCM guys managed to patch into Almayer's network already? With a due sense of exhaustion and dread, he checked the message. It wasn't the marines: it was the security chief, Dressler. Apparently, a group of F-Sector geniuses had pooled their half-a-dozen brain cells together to try to steal one of the boats. Dressler and Peretti had happened to be in their way. <em>Christ.</em> Garner almost wished those fucknuts (surely that was what the F in 'F-Sector' stood for?) had <em>succeeded</em> in escaping. They would have been stranded adrift while the USCM rescued everyone else. Garner couldn't imagine colonial marines would make a special trip to pick up some asshats in a sub-tub who'd taken the initiative to further complicate the situation by mutinying. They'd have probably got left behind and it would have been fucking hilarious.<br/><br/>Still, Dressler had been doing her job and, because of her, those asshats would get rescued in a few hours, along with everyone else.<br/><br/>With a deep sigh, Garner rattled off a message to Dressler, keeping it short and - as usual - devoid of any express or implied gratitude for her service:</span></span><br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: courier;">Acknowledged. Meet me at the drop pad. You can update me there. We've got visitors.</span></span></strong>