face. He was afraid to so much as breathe lest the oxygen wake him and destroy this impossible dream, and he realized he was weeping only when his display shimmered. And then she spoke again, and this time everyone heard the catch in her breath, the proud tears she refused to shed hanging in her soft voice.
'We're home, System Command,' she said. 'It took us a while, but we're home.'
Appendix
HMS Minotaur
(1) Shrike LAC (shown for scale)
(2) Gravitic Detection Array
(3) Weapon Ports
(4) Missile Tubes
(5) Phased Radar Array
(6) Lidar Array
(7) Life Pod Escape Hatches
(8) Life Pod Escape Tubes
(9) LAC Bay Hatch
(10) LAC Bay
(11) Personnel/Missile Loading Tubes
(12) Docking/Umbilical Cradle
(12A) Docking Arms
(13) Life Pod
(14) Isler Corporation GRAVMAK (Gravity-Magnitnaya)
Fusion Reactor Burning Hydrogen/Boron-11 Mix
15) Hydrogen/Boron Feed Channels
(16) Gravity Generators
(17) Magnetic Field Housing
(18) Boat Bay
(19) Radiation/Particle Shield Generator
(20) Sidewall Generator
(21) Vectored Thrust Auxiliary Fusion Reactor Thruster
(22) After Impeller Ring
(23) Broadside Phased Array Radar
(24) Broadside Gravitic Array
Shrike LAC
(1) Point Defense Laser Cluster
