"You got that right. I did manage to give the lasers a power boost, though - they're not all that strong to begin with, so I created a feedback loop to get them up to maybe 175, 200% above their norm. It's not going to be much help, but something's better than nothing, right?"

And that's the last screw. Robin shook his head again with a sigh, climbing out of his pod.

"When all this is over we need to see about hooking up some sort of steering mechanism and installing it on the bridge. There's no reason we shouldn't be able to change course if we need to."