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- I hang on to my bunk and watch him do his thing. “Okay, step one. Astrophage sampling.”
- “Yes yes.” He holds two hands in front of him and moves one around the other. “Planet move around Tau. Astrophage go there from Tau. Same at Eridani. Astrophage make more Astrophage with carbon dioxide there.”
- “Yes,” I say. “Did you get a sample?”
- “No. My ship had device for this. But device broke.”
- “You couldn’t fix it?”
- “Device not malfunction. Device broke. Fell off ship during trip. Device gone.”
- “Oh! Wow. Why did it break off?”
- He wiggles his carapace. “Not know. Many things break. My people make ship very hurry. No time to make sure all things work good.”
- Deadline-induced quality issues: a problem all over the galaxy.
- “I tried to make replacement. Failed. Tried. Failed. Tried. Failed. I put ship in path of Astrophage. Maybe some get stuck on hull. But robot on hull no can find any. Astrophage very small.”
- ***
- Chapter 15
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