Ten days had passed since the training session in Antarctica.
Liam had spent most of that time working on the upcoming announcement and everything attached to it. The drafting, the structuring, the careful choice of what to include and what to leave out — it wasn't complicated work, but it was work that required his attention.
He could have handed it to Lucy. He didn't, because Lucy was buried in a lot of work.
She was running parallel builds simultaneously, working on the FTL drives for the Emperor Class-II Starship she's building, retrofitting the drive for the Emperor Class-I, and now the luxury personal space shuttle he'd commissioned on top of everything else. Also, not forgetting that she's also working on his new exosuit.
Pulling her into announcement drafting when she was managing that volume of concurrent engineering work wasn't something he was willing to do. The announcement could wait on him. The builds couldn't wait on her.
So he handled it himself.
