“If you tell anyone I said this, I’ll deny it up and down the station, but I think things are starting to slip with the old corp. Almost as soon as Vic died, we got word yearly raises were being adjusted downward due to ‘unexpected Rush cost overruns.’ Then there was that story out of Accadia about a Steele Tech freighter hauling a load of indentured servants with contracts way below company spec.” She shakes her head. “My hunch is the board’s getting lazy now that they’re the top of the food chain. If things keep trending this way for another year or two... I’ll probably quit, but by then the Rush’ll be over, and I can retire with my sis. She’ll owe me pretty hard by then.”