After easily observing from the ground what was more appropriately termed an execution than a fight a man stepped away from the edge of a building at the spaceport, and jogged over to the hangar from which the three Arrows had launched. He stepped through the open launch door and accessed the maintenance station. After he terminated the actively transmitting comm uplink and made minor alterations to the service records, he exited the hangar and headed towards the public embarkation terminal. He located the automated ticketing station and inserted an identification card. He selected a destination and after inputting a coded account number, he verified his agreement to the charge against his account. He took the routing ticket produced by the station and then headed to the designated departure gate.
After a wait of precisely 72 minutes, the shuttle's seating for departure was announced. The man rose from his seat and took a place in line. When he reached the gateway leading to the shuttle, he handed his ticket over to the attendant, who scanned it for authenticity and then handed it back. The man proceeded to the shuttle, boarded, seated himself and strapped in. He studied the faces of everyone on board as they took their seats, and after the shuttle cleared Toledo's atmosphere for its flight to Freeport 11, he laid his head back against the headrest and appeared to doze for the remainder of the trip.