Everyone was shell shocked after Simon's confession.
Tommy was especially distraught after he learned the fate that awaited his sister if the Hendersons found out about her planet of origin.
-I don't care, if my sister is alive i will do everything in my power to get her back and anyone standing in my way will die.
Tommy said with an ice cold voice and the temperature around them dropped rapidly.
-Sorry to tell you this but if they discover her secret they will send an army to defend her with their lives and that's if she is alive.
Simon said with a gloom in his voice.
-Gentleman, I suggest you stop planning a massacre and focus on getting out of here first.
Alice poured a bucket of cold water on both of them.
-You're right, first we need to get out of here and get everyone else to safety,then i will come back here and if my sister is alive then i will save her and if she is dead then i will avenge her.
Tommy's eyes were now calmer and there was a spark of hope in them.
The next two weeks were a torture with nothing to do but slowly work on the ships and train after that buy it was finally over.
Tommy and the others observed yet another batch of ships being towed into the docks.
The dock 1 now hosted another small shuttle and dock 2 had another small merchant ship.
When the thawing process finally ended everyone went to work and to their surprise the merchant ship was probably used as a smuggling vessel.
It was full of hidden compartments which were filled to the brim with smuggled goods, one of which just happened to be alcohol.
They found 10 crates of the stuff and all of it was from outside of the empire.
With this much booze they were now able to get everyone off of the drug and even Alice who hated alcohol was happy about that.
Another surprise was found in the shuttle which turned out to have a cargo of electronic appliances.
When they were added to the ship's electronics that they could salvage without raising any suspicion it was more than enough for all the bypasses they needed.
With so much luck on their side they got to work.
In two weeks everybody was cured of the drug's influence and all of the people agreed to help with the escape plan.
Another week later Tommy,Paul and Martha, who was an engineer they found after getting everyone drunk, finished producing the bypasses.
Since they didn't have to hide anymore they installed them as soon as they could.
The battle command center now had more people in it and after they gained control of the whole station there were at least four of them monitoring everything at all times.
After all that the engineers went to every dock to repair the tractor beam emitters which was now easier to do since they could use the matter converters to produce parts they needed.
When the cargo ship arrived to collect the materials,Anne was ready and had given them slightly less than they had last time.
Just to be sure that they didn't find out what was going on on the station.
With the fuel now available they turned on the two reactors that were offline but they didn't use all their power for now and as the other two they were set to the minimal level.
However, it allowed them to use more of the station's facilities.
For instance everyone could take a water shover and Tommy was the first one to do so.
The happiest of them all however was Garry who trained everyone in the true art of salvage.
Now that they don't have to be cautious about getting too much material.
He was finally let loose and with his newly trained teams they were tearing the ships apart at a staggering speed.
The new grav carts also helped a lot,they produced the needed parts and assembled enough carts for everyone.
Anne had to redirect the materials from the cargo bay that the noble ship used to collect their share a week after everyone started to work at their full capacity because they already reached the needed quantity.
Alice on the other hand went with her medical staff to the main med center and discovered that it was still fully equipped along with a holographic training module which she used to teach her people about the implant surgery,it would take some time to fully train them but it went a lot faster with that equipment.
Another thing Alice found there were two medical matter converter's which could produce everything she needed; one was for medicine production and the other produced hardware ranging from surgical tools all the way to the implants that they wanted.
Some of the equipment on the other side was in working order but most of it was damaged so Tommy,Paul and Martha were busy all the time, from trying to get the tractor beam generators online to going all around the station to repair stuff and assembling grav carts.
They worked from morning to well into the night,wanting to do as much as they could.
Three weeks after they gained control of the station the salvage teams finished disassembling the ships and were ready for more.
Unfortunately the tractor beams were still offline but with all the power they now had they didn't have to be satisfied with only three ships and the operation took much longer this time but also yielded much more ships to work with.
This time dock 1 had two small shuttles inside,dock 2 had two small cargo vessels and one midsize shuttle.
Dock 3 and dock 4 didn't have the harpoons and their tractor beams were offline so for now they remained empty.
Now that everything was going according to plan it was time to design the ship that they were going to build.
The meeting was called and after some time they decided that dock 3 would be used to build the ship as dock 4 was designed to build carrier and dreadnought class ships.
The ship they wanted to build was a cruiser class.
It took some convincing as some of the people wanted a destroyer class but when they heard that it was unknown if someone was guarding this system and that the empire would
probably send ships to stop them from escaping not to mention the nobles that would surely send their own fleet ,everyone agreed that they needed at least a cruiser class ship to escape.
Building something so massive required thousands of tons of materials but Garry took it as a challenge and he is the kind of man that loves to be challenged.
-If you can repair the tractor beams then we can deliver all the materials you want just give us some time.
Was what Garry said,he didn't ask for the impossible just for what he needed.
There were still many things to fix on the station and among them were the dock facilities which would be very useful for dismantling the ships and also they were crucial for building their cruiser.
So all three of the engineers would be busy for a long time to come.
And the design of the ship was put on hold for now since first they needed the docks and the first thing on the list was to repair the tractor beams.
The repairs took two more days but eventually they did it and everyone cheered.
At this moment the whole station shook hard knocking everyone off their feet.