The Empress of Mars
“said Mr. Rotherhithe with a trace of smugness. “It’s all very well to draw conclusions and make plans from a nice clean well-ordered office Down Home, young man, but when you’ve been up here a while, as I have, you’ll find that Earth rules don’t apply in this damned place.”
“Very true, sir,” said Mr. Nennius. “These are, however, only the opening moves in the game. May I see the immigration files on Clan Morrigan?”
Mr. Rotherhithe sniffed, and tapped in the request. The screen rose from its slo...t in his desk and displayed a document. Mr. Nennius leaned forward and studied it. He began to smile.
“Oh, my,” he said. “No genetic screening was done.”
“Of course no genetic screening was done,” said Mr. Rotherhithe, with an irritable wave of his hand. “The Company was taking anyone it could get, and it was right after the Edinburgh Treaty was signed. We bent over backwards for anyone we could induce to come up here. ‘Takes all kinds to settle a world,’ that was the official slogan.MoreLess
“Very true, sir,” said Mr. Nennius. “These are, however, only the opening moves in the game. May I see the immigration files on Clan Morrigan?”
Mr. Rotherhithe sniffed, and tapped in the request. The screen rose from its slo...t in his desk and displayed a document. Mr. Nennius leaned forward and studied it. He began to smile.
“Oh, my,” he said. “No genetic screening was done.”
“Of course no genetic screening was done,” said Mr. Rotherhithe, with an irritable wave of his hand. “The Company was taking anyone it could get, and it was right after the Edinburgh Treaty was signed. We bent over backwards for anyone we could induce to come up here. ‘Takes all kinds to settle a world,’ that was the official slogan.MoreLess
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