On board the Everest, Captain Harlock finished speaking to his chief engineer.  "So all the repairs are finally complete?  Excellent news.  Have your crews all start taking some extra R&R on a rotating schedule... Give those boys a good rest.  We'll be needing them at full strength in about a week, I expect, so get them well rested in the meantime.  We'll be going to warp as soon as we reach the jump point."<br/><br/>Going into the bridge and sitting in his captain's chair, he turned to his Navagator.  "Vanessa, take her out.  Set a course for the Warp point, maximum safe cruising speed."<br/><br/>As the shy but efficient woman brought the mighty engines of the Everest to full life, Jason turned to Sister Erica, who even now held the compiled coordinate list for the first leg of their journey in a sealed courier's bag, along with Jason's carefully prepared tactical plan for their fleet formation while traveling through he nebula.  Not one of the navigation officers knew more than a fraction of the details of his planned course, and they would need a photographic memory to give anyone else more than a single detail.  Only he knew the full course he had planned, and besides the single hardcopy that Erica carried and the one on his own personal data-pad, there was no other surviving record of the navigator's careful calculations.<br/><br/>"Sister Erica, have Lieutenent Mathison and a small group of his best men escort you to the Astropaths, and get these plans transmitted to the Katana, the Alexander, and the Kobras Aquiarre for approval.  Make sure you have the room secure first, of course, and have these transmitted for Captains eyes only, please.  Maximum security.  Then await confirmation, and bring it back to me."<br/><br/>Sister Erica nodded tersely, and moved over to the internship communicator to summon the head of Security and his best team.<br/><br/>Captain Harlock sat back and watched his bridge crew setting in for their first real action since the battle of Ares, months before, and forced himself to be calm.  It wouldn't do to appear restless in front of the crew.