Aneka Jansen 5: the Greatest Heights of Honour
“It was midway through what passed for autumn there and the temperature was over forty Celsius in the shade. Slight tremors could be felt at least once a day as the crust shifted and a fault line moved. The atmosphere was standard nitrogen-oxygen laced with enough hydrogen sulphide that everyone except Aneka was forced to wear a filter mask all the time. And in the distance, thankfully, clouds of dark smoke rose from arcs of very young volcanos, belching more toxic gasses into the air.Farrington...’s World was what was known as a Roanoke. Aneka had been amused to hear the term used, especially since the Jenlay seemed to have no idea where it came from. Roanokes were colonies that failed for no known reason, often with the loss or disappearance of everyone in them. In this case it seemed misapplied. The mining facilities and buildings that had once housed around forty thousand colonists were half-buried under solidified lava. Yes, Farrington’s World had failed, and no one had known why, but that was mostly because no one had bothered to look until now.‘Adams to Jansen.’ The voice sounded in Aneka’s head and she grimaced on hearing it; Marshal Adams was a pain in the butt.MoreLess
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