The Doctor and the Chrysanthemum

[Doc Holliday]

Doc nodded at her concern. "I would have the same concern if someone came to Med Force General in Baffin but in a moment, you will see the difference." He then motioned for them to follow him back to his ship where he powered up the nav computers and memory banks. He then pulled up a map of the Kyushu system.
"This map is of Kyushu from 12 years ago," he explained. "Long before Med Force Enterprises, Long before the Temporary Autonomous Zoners which I once led, there was only John Holliday finding his way through Sirius in a Dromedary freighter so I did a lot of exploring."
He then pointed at the Hokkaido jumphole on the map and then the Tau 23 jump hole.
"I found those two exploring clouds."
He then changed the map to Kyushu of present and pointed at the Hokkaido hole. "It has not changed location in those 12 years."

He then went to a map of Hokkaido and made the same point about the Jump hole to Kyushu. "Same case. The jump hole locations have not changed nor has the location of Ainu Depot. It was 9.7 k from the jumphole then as it is now so with all due respect, your secrecy is not totally secret." He made the case with a Hokkaido map of present. "If you value your secrecy, move your base say, East, about 6 to 10 k."
"My hospital and research facility in Baffin is very far from any jumphole and just far enough from any base so that a ship leaving the Pueblo Bonita will not detect it. That is how I like it. We can work in peace that way."

He then turned to the sisters and addressed them all. "When I did find Ainu the first time, I was intercepted by a GC patrol and fired upon. I turned and headed back to Kyushu so your security is not laxed, just your secrecy. We share a common dislike of bounty hunters so I got a better ship and did missions against them. It was not long after that I was seen here with neutrality. I then went back to trading."
He shut down his nav systems and rose to his feet. He stood, his hands in front of him.

"When I found Ainu, part of it was from hearing of a matriarchal group. I like ladies and well, I just wanted to find out. I also found a market back then for luxury consumer goods so I began a trade route here from Manhattan with them. Times have changed as have routes and supply needs so I pass by here on occasion to update files. Ladies, from those who do not know already, your base location's secret is safe with me."
He then stood, his way blocked by three suspicious GC sisters. His Kusarian was limited so he couldn't figure out all they were saying to each other while they blocked him.

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