“Where’s your autopilot?”

“You’re looking at it”

“All I see is a bunch of cogs and shafts. Where’s the computer?”

“That’s the computer”

“You have a *clockwork* jumpdrive. For the love of Eris, why?”

“The best human takes forty seconds to recover from jumpshock. There isn’t a digital computer that can tell a one from a zero in under a minute postjump. Belinda here will have us into the next wormhole before those customs cutters chasing us stop drooling.”

“You *named* this abomination”

“Hey, no cause to be mean to her! You can get out and walk anytime, friend.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot