Only Superhuman
“After a sunward push from the Ceres drive beam, Zephyr let Sol’s gravity accelerate him over the next few days, then scraped by inside Mercury’s orbit, radiators extended to full, and used just enough plasma drive to compensate for the gravity that now tried to slow him. He flipped over and decelerated hard on the penultimate leg, slowing him enough for a regional Bolasat to divert him toward their destination.Vanguard orbited in the outermost Kirkwood gap, off the beaten track even by Outers s...tandards. It was easy to see, though, since at three-point-seven AUs it needed a large solar mirror to focus sufficient sunlight. That bright, solitary beacon had attracted curiosity from afar for decades. The original Vanguard had been a small Bernal sphere, but on relocating they’d constructed a second, larger sphere, counterrotating on the same axis. Telescopic scans suggested that Vanguard’s population had grown to nearly fifteen thousand, substantial for a habitat that had had little immigration for three decades.MoreLess
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