The final few months were spent at Ganymede station practicing with the actual ship and rover as they underwent final construction. By now the spacecraft were downright luxurious compared to the old 'tin cans' of the twenty-first century. With the Hsinchu engine allowing access to the various moons, mineral resources were once again plentiful. The ship kept a minimal gravity by rotating around it's axis and the length was divided into a pilot's cockpit, a common room, and a small private cabin for each of them.
They went through thousands of drills and mock disasters encompassing anything that the design team could imagine going wrong. The preparations were sobering enough that Isfaheem wondered if he hadn't made a grave mistake in leaving the comparative safety of the university.