Another good chapter, well written with the characters becoming less names and feelings strung together across the page. The have for the beginng of chapter 1 been viable...that these could be real people in a real world dealing with a situation which some of them hand no part in creating but with out which it would not work at all. In to this the captain now is handed a bastard son by a wife only know briefly, and he is now charged to find a place or dispose of him quickly. The Kid; has to deal with creating a plase in the vialent world the father created, and at the same time protecting his needs and desires, and feeling that in part are not even close to those of the Captain, and crew of the Starcutter. The intersting relationship will be what develops between Ryle and Gabe...I'm totaly HOOKED and its only three Chapters AGGGH