Orphans of Earth
“She’d heard eyewitness reports and seen conSense footage, but this was the first time she was actually seeing the Spinners with her own eyes. It’s like watching God in action, she thought.Sixty-one Ursa Major boasted no Jupiter-sized gas giant, so the inner system was a mess of post-planetary formation rubble. The major terrestrial world, Hera, had several smallish moons and suffered constant bombardment. A smaller world in a nearby orbit, Eileithyia, had probably been knocked from Hera at some... point in the distant past. Hera’s surface was a mess of impact craters distorted by tectonic movement and volcanic activity. It was a world of fire, from the furious swirling of its magnetic field to the rumblings of its still-hot core.Hatzis had anchored herself to one of Hera’s small moons. It had an orbital period of nineteen hours with a high eccentricity and was presently the closest solid body to the fourth spindle being built in Hera’s geosynchronous orbit. The hole ship was hidden in a nearby fissure.MoreLess
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