Angles of Attack
“It seems like anyone with even a weak excuse to be in Indy’s nerve center right now has chosen this time to do so. Even Dmitry is up here with me, standing by the side of the CIC pit and leaning against the waist-high safety railing.“There she spins,” Major Renner says when the camera feed from Indy’s front sensor array shows the familiar blue-and-white sphere, or at least the half of it currently illuminated by the sun. As always, Earth is mostly cloud covered, but there are patches of clear s...kies. I can spot a chunk of what looks like the eastern coast of Australia and the sunlight reflecting off the South Pacific beyond. We’re still too far to spot spaceship traffic, but I can see the space stations in their orbits, each the size of a small city: Independence, Gateway, the SRA’s Unity, and the half dozen stations from the Europeans, Africans, and Australians I can’t ever tell apart without consulting a recognition manual. I see Luna in the distance as well, and the knowledge that I may be within radio range of Halley again is almost making me forget the anxiety of the strange reception.“Indianapolis, contact Independence control for approach handoff,”MoreLess
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