Also, MgT2, p.147 says it takes 1D hours and a Difficult Pilot check to
do a gas-giant refuel. Thus the Companion isn't just making the task
more detailed, but also much harder and more dangerous.
Wow... that's much faster than I recall. of course, that doesn't include processing time. Maybe I remember 'time to skim and process' vs. just the 'skim'. That may never have been quantified in CT.
What does 1 hour mean?
1 hour from orbit?
How high of an orbit?
Is that impacted by thrust or do all ships skim at 1 G?
That feels fast to me, but maybe it always was and I felt it was a 6-24 hour kind of process but now I doubt I ever saw a quantification of the skimming's timing.