Within the next day, ahead of schedule, the Illustrious was underway. Innes thought he could feel the faint, almost imperceptible vibration in the deck plates as they left the shipyards behind. They were accelerating at a sustained one-point-one gravities, a comfortable speed for a cruiser of this class, fast but not pushing the engines. Although the ship had the same inertial compensators that allowed smaller vessels to accelerate much faster, a cruiser wasn’t a fighter or corvette. At almost fifty-five thousand kilotons of metal and machinery…
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