Star Corps
“Hanson and Gavin Norris hovering by his shoulders. From their noumenal vantage point they seemed to be moving swiftly above the swirl and stippling of a broad swath of clouds, clouds tinged with red and gold from the light of the distant sun. Breaks in the cloud cover revealed glimpses of a tortured landscape, sere desert crisscrossed by vast, yawning fault valleys and rugged mountains; stretches of salty sea filling low-lying rifts like fingers; glaciers clinging to broad, mountain plateaus; s...avage storms each the size of a subcontinent; and everywhere the black-smudge plumes of active volcanoes.
“Not exactly the sort of neighborhood where you want to raise your kids,” Norris said quietly. “You wouldn’t think anything could live down there.”
“That’s almost certainly why the Ahannu colony survived,” Hanson explained. “The Hunters of the Dawn must have swept through this part of the galaxy, destroying every trace of sentient life and civilization they could find. We know they wiped out every Ahannu colony on Earth and on Earth’s moon.MoreLess
“Not exactly the sort of neighborhood where you want to raise your kids,” Norris said quietly. “You wouldn’t think anything could live down there.”
“That’s almost certainly why the Ahannu colony survived,” Hanson explained. “The Hunters of the Dawn must have swept through this part of the galaxy, destroying every trace of sentient life and civilization they could find. We know they wiped out every Ahannu colony on Earth and on Earth’s moon.MoreLess
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