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It was two days after Eli put Rush and Col. Young into their pods. He had all the ships systems turned off but life support and the pod rooms. He wrote a program to turn off the life support in one week, so there will be power for the three year FTL jump. It will turn back on when they drop out of FTL in the new galaxy.
Eli was getting mad at the damaged pod. He was sitting on the floor lend back resting on the wall. When he had an idea. He jumped to his feet and popped off the control panel to the pod. Right away he noticed that one of the crystals was burned out. He was trying to think of where he could get a new one at. Then he remembered the other Destiny. When they got parts from it, they had gotten some crystals from the ship as well. He ran the half mile to the storage room where the parts were put. He know right where the crystals were at in the room. He got one out of the black crate, but it was the wrong one. The third one he pulled out of the crate was the right one for the statius pod.
He puts the crystal in the slot of the burned out one. And then the pod turned on. He said the himself, "Damn that was it. I am starter than Rush." He decides not to turn the life support off when he goes to sleep in the pod. He's thinking to himself, "It's on a timer, why worry about it."