If one of you dies from a bad seal it reflects badly on me. Again, this isn’t a gringo thing or being a hard-ass. If you came down here unprepared for vacuum that is a definitive statement that you haven’t been doing the job. If you are unprepared for vacuum in this job you might as well kill yourself right now. There is no such thing as being unprepared for vacuum. Especially to engineers who are working on their boats. Thermopylae is a very big place and most of it’s pretty safe,” Dana commed. “We weren’t really prepared to deal with vacuum,” Palencia commed. The others just came out as a series of muffled shouts. He still didn’t have his helmet on and quickly donned it. “What are you doing?” Palencia asked, hooking on his helmet without a seal check. “You might want to put on your helmets and gloves,” she said as she commed the hatches shut. She toggled the hatch shut and put on her helmet and gloves, performing if not the world’s fastest check of seals then very damned close. You can feel free to try to interfere with that intent. Since I’m now responsible for this division, I’m going to do my level best to make it the very best division in the squadron. The third is because I was raised to believe that if you’re going to do something, you should do it to the very best of your ability.

The first, as I noted earlier, is that it’s our mission. I’m being a hard-ass for a bunch of reasons. Or that I’m being a hard-ass because I’m a gringo. “I’m afraid you think I’m being a hard-ass just to be a hard-ass. She was careful to do a perfect plant and caught her helmet as she landed. “I think I need to make one more thing clear,” Dana said as she flipped herself into gravity again. She commed Twenty-Three open and wordlessly pointed at the hatch. Then it occurred to her that five was a null ball team and the training schedule didn’t specify what type of training. It occurred to her that from the looks they didn’t even play null ball. Palencia wasn’t bad in micro he seemed like he was probably naturally athletic and of course had more time in space.

The hot gate by john ringo