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Runs the Dunlin on a twelve-day fitters-and-freight rotation. Signs for the certified solution at six every run, the way she signs for it every run. When the ship's own platform disagrees with the certificate, her first move is to distrust her own equipment ("It's the platform") and cold-start the backup. When that opens further, she goes and gets a third reading off a hull two hundred kilometres astern — the Alder's own instruments against the Alder's own reference, nothing shared and nothing relayed through the station. That instinct is the book's method arriving from the other direction, in a working freighter, by somebody who has never heard of any of it.
Runs the Dunlin on a twelve-day fitters-and-freight rotation. Signs for the certified solution at six every run, the way she signs for it every run. When the ship's own platform disagrees with the certificate, her first move is to distrust her own equipment ("It's the platform") and cold-start the backup. When that opens further, she goes and gets a third reading off a hull two hundred kilometres astern — the Alder's own instruments against the Alder's own reference, nothing shared and nothing relayed through the station. That instinct is the book's method arriving from the other direction, in a working freighter, by somebody who has never heard of any of it. Two chains that share no instrument.