The quiet journey to Leemar not only allowed Ves to do his homework, but also take care of other matters.
For example, Ves finally judged the Barracuda traveled far enough from Centerpoint to check up on the System. Under Lucky's vigilant ECM shielding, he summoned his System comm from his Inventory and activated his Privacy Shield.
While he did not have total confidence that these countermeasures would be able to jam state-of-the-art MTA surveillance technology, the Friday Coalition was an entirely different matter. He also activated it during FTL travel, so it was extremely unlikely for their spies to be snooping in on him right now.
"It's been a while."
Though the System gave him numerous advantages, he did not wish to become too dependent on it. So far, he figured he did a good job of that, though it left him to abandon many opportunities that he could have pursued earlier.
