“Five liters per second.”
“Ith that the lowetht you could get it without the pump backing up?Is that the lowest you could get it without the pump backing up?
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Their expression fell slightly. “Yeah. But I did the math, and it’ll still last us.”
-Soot smiled reassuringly. “Then that’th all I care about, if you’re not worried,(Then that’s all I care about, if you’re not worried,}” they said, resting a paw on the vulp’s shoulder. “Jutht make thure you’re not overfilling the hot-loop nektht time, and you’ll have your thenior engi thertificathion on the thpot.Just make sure you’re not overfilling the hot-loop next time, and you’ll have your senior engi certification on the spot.
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Soot smiled reassuringly. “@{Then that’th all I care about, if you’re not worried,}(Then that’s all I care about, if you’re not worried,}” they said, resting a paw on the vulp’s shoulder. “Jutht make thure you’re not overfilling the hot-loop nektht time, and you’ll have your thenior engi thertificathion on the thpot.Just make sure you’re not overfilling the hot-loop next time, and you’ll have your senior engi certification on the spot.
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They laughed and nodded. “Want me to pull any plasma out of the hot loop?”
They shook their head. “Like I thaid, I’m not worried if you aren’t.Like I said, I’m not worried if you aren’t.
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They nodded and, hearing the call for help in putting the anti-matter engine to sleep for the time being, dashed deeper into the department. The AME made a good initial source of energy and a necessary backup, but was too expensive, fuel-wise, to run the whole shift. Before long, the thud…! thud…! of the AME drifted to silence.