Suddenly, I hear Vanya in my head. She starts talking about math and doing something about making three adjustments in each ship and then listen to the Mentat and do what he says. I am fairly sure that I am dreaming as Vanya has to be several light years away if not several galaxies. Then she says ignore your hand, but move it and turn on the seat warmer. How am I supposed to ignore my hand and do something with it at the same time? And how does she know there are seat warmers on this ship?
I look at my hand - because you have to when someone tells you not to - and I suddenly see that I am turning blue from cold? Then the Mentat says that I can steal all of the ships. Okay, there are a lot of ships here, but this plan has me somehow popping into the cockpit of each and every ship, adjusting the power to allow each ship to double the hyperspace bubble, and then turn them on all of the hyperdrives at the same time. This means that I have to figure out the specs of each ship, put them into categories based upon the panel configurations, figure out how long it will take each hyperdrive to activate so I can start the slower ones first and finish with the fastest ones using a timer program.
I have to focus on the end result - my reputation will increase and I will have a LOT of treasure. It is very sad that I can fly only one ship at a time as I would love to have different ships for different needs. But I will have the reputation of stealing a LOT and I do mean a LOT of ships from the Katana fleet as well as people from them. Then I overhear that we are flying to Chalcedon - that means that I will have to pay port taxes and they will take a portion of my loot. Vanya figures that either Spook or her boys can doctor the paperwork so I can keep everything. I close my eyes, take some very deep breaths, and agree to do this insane thing.
I suddenly feel my body feeling warmth and life and I feel as if I can actually do this crazy, insane thing. I hop - mentally - into a simulator and begin setting up each and every ship so that they can perform as the Mentat required. I then find myself back in my body and watching the slow as molasses milliseconds as the hyperdrives engage and an enormous bubble the size of a super star destroyed is formed and slowly the ships wink out of sight one at a time with my ship being the last one.