Proxima
“Constant, save for one six–hour interval of microgravity, when the kernel drive was briefly shut down, the systems checked out, and the ship flipped over to begin its deceleration to the destination.
In this interval, while the drive was inert, Monica Trant invited Stef Kalinski to visit the hulk’s engine room. Led by an ISF crewman, they pulled themselves down a fireman’s pole that ran the length of the axis of the big, spacious tank that comprised the greater part of the hulk, down toward...s the engines.
‘Thanks for this,’ Stef said to Trant. ‘You know how it is. Since I graduated I’ve devoted practically my entire life to a study of the kernels. But I’ve only ever had access to the handful of specimens donated by UEI to the UN moon labs, and even there we’ve never been allowed to run the kind of high-energy experiments—’ ‘Like the ones our engineers run down in the engine rooms of hulks like the Shrapnel every day,’ Trant said drily.MoreLess
In this interval, while the drive was inert, Monica Trant invited Stef Kalinski to visit the hulk’s engine room. Led by an ISF crewman, they pulled themselves down a fireman’s pole that ran the length of the axis of the big, spacious tank that comprised the greater part of the hulk, down toward...s the engines.
‘Thanks for this,’ Stef said to Trant. ‘You know how it is. Since I graduated I’ve devoted practically my entire life to a study of the kernels. But I’ve only ever had access to the handful of specimens donated by UEI to the UN moon labs, and even there we’ve never been allowed to run the kind of high-energy experiments—’ ‘Like the ones our engineers run down in the engine rooms of hulks like the Shrapnel every day,’ Trant said drily.MoreLess
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