I "Excuse me, please," Ben Starbuck said, tapping the junior officer on the epaulet. "Get away from me, scum," the lieutenant said conversationally, his eyes on the clipboard in his hands. Starbuck rocked back on his heels and set his spacebag down on the loading platform. He angled his head up at the spire of the inter-atmosphere ship, the Gorgon . This was only a sample of what he could expect once he canted into that hull. It would be rough. But he had made up his mind to take it. All tight l