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Just follow any of the links in the show notes for this episode. How are you feeling better?

I'm feeling better.

You weren't kidding about that warp gate.

That was not a good feeling.

You get used to it.

Holy shit. Where are we?

We're fine.

We're on something.

It's an ice hauler.

Why are we attached to it?

You know those small fish that attach themselves to sharks?

Yeah.

That's what we're doing right now.

I've never seen anything so big.

At any given moment, there are about a million of these things traveling through the triad, delivering ice.

They scoop it up from accretion disks and make their way to whatever planet will pay for it.

Fully automated and massive.

If you're small enough, you can attach yourself to the side.

Run on ghost power, and you're pretty hard to see.

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