jacqui wrote: <No mention is made of him making restitution to the inhabitants of Destiny for this 'wanton act of destruction' despite their being fairly cash strapped at the time.> snip <The rest of the crew would - probably - concur with replacing what had been destroyed, even 'I am a man of my word'>

Oh I doubt it :-) Given the fact that Our Heroes just [a] saved the neutrotope (which was worth rather more than the Ortega) and were flying it back to Destiny in time to *save* Destiny, I think Blake's rather hard-nosed crew would consider any debt to be quite massively in the other direction, and if the Ortegans want to complain, they can always chalk it up to experience and delivery fees ...

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