During that time, he asked Cassian whether there was anything urgent that needed him, and his father told him plainly that the family would need roughly a week before the first support convoy was ready.
He also told Aurelian to spend time with his shipgirls while he still could, because once the movement began, the March would become much busier.
That was all the permission he needed.
Instead of staying in the starport, Aurelian went back and brought the available shipgirls down to one of the Arcturus family's resort regions on the capital world.
The planet was not only a center of power. It had oceans, mountain ranges, old cities, protected forests, training estates, and leisure districts built over generations.
Aurelian had grown up with access to all of it, yet he realized with some embarrassment that he had barely seen most of it properly.
His childhood had been lessons, training, family expectations, and preparation for command.
