NARRATOR: Shareholders' meeting...
CDRE TAGON: Our flagship, Broken Wind, needs a complete cabin refit, and several of her original Oafan systems will have to be replaced.
Our cargo ship is now one half of a pair of teraport cages, so the cabin superstructure we installed there last year is a total loss. We gave that to the Esspees as scrap.
Cindy's core, which we brought over from Bristlecone, is now homeless. She is hibernating until we find a suitable hull into which she can be installed.
CDRE TAGON: And now the good news...
All of this will be covered by the Plenipotent Dominion. Petey gave Murtaugh a coupon book.
KATHRYN: A coupon book? Is it old school, with pulpy, dead tree, tear-out pages?
MURTAUGH: It's just a data stack. No trees were harmed.
KATHRYN: Is there a coupon in there for "Hunt down the Wing Marshal and assassinate him for great justice?"
MURTAUGH: There is not.
Petey seems to think assassination is even worse than pulping trees for paper.