"They came," Brendan announced with satisfaction. A moment later he remembered to repeat the words in English for the old ship's core.
"You still haven't been authorized," the old core grumbled.
"Neither have you," he pointed out calmly.
It was actually mildly amusing that the reason the system couldn't verify that he didn't belong there was that the system it was trying to communicate with seemed to find it too outdated. The amusement went cold as soon as you realized that this outdated system seemed to be as good as your own system's top of the line though.
He could only thank Rafaela for leaving enough data about the ship that he and Adrian could act far more familiar with it than they actually were.
"Maybe we should have brought your mother's ship along, or yours at least," Adrian said a bit nervously. "Some kind of backup."
