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The job was a corporate commission for a pleasure cruiser that had failed to evade a comet and been knocked off-course into an asteroid belt. The company repair crew had been evacuated with everyone else and the first freelance crew had quit without finishing the repair, leaving her scuttled in deep space. The photos were gnarly, showcasing several deep craters in the hull and the ragged, trailing machinery that bled out of them. Nothing that Mingyu knew how to fix, but he wouldn't be expected to. She just needed enough care and juice to limp to a shipyard for the large-scale repairs.
Mingyu scrolled down the listing, skimming over the cruiser's specs and the estimated repair time. Attached at the bottom was a scant site report from the first repair team:
Site 9796
Status: Repair failed
Recommended actions: Abandon site*
Mingyu loved his job— he got to travel all over the galaxy, he got to fix things and set disarray aright, and he got to make Jihoon laugh.
He knew that nothing could last forever. He just didn't expect the dream to end so soon, and with so much blood.