“Hotship required,” read Slaus. “What’s that?”

“Ah, probably an infernian. Yeah, okay. They need a Form 227-B and they need to be put on a ship with an H at the end of its prefix. You can put them on something with PH as well, but only if you have to. H for Hotship, PH for Partial Hotship.”

“…okay?”

“Infernians need a temperature of 117 degrees centigrade, even in hibernation,” Owteon explained. “A hotship keeps that temperature at all times, so that if the hibernation cell fails they will simply wake up intead of dying and then exploding.”