The Sirens of Space
“Dwarfed by the creation that had cost four years of their lives and more than one trillion credits, the workmen who had given her life hovered around her arching curves.
Agleam to the edge of glowing, the heat shields still needed polishing; tested to the twelfth level of redundancy, the hatches and outlets required more rechecking and the power systems awaited reconfirmation; and even though her massive computers and internal relays had been cleared once a week for as long as anyone could reme...mber, the engineers insisted on one last glitch run before approving her systems as starworthy. Large black figures started to appear on her face; before the giant vessel could leave the dock, her registry markings would need time to set. Now known as Challenger Prototype Number 3, when she left at last for Ishtar she would be “CGS 2001.” Sometime after the dock crew began to work on the next formless mass, someone else would name her.
All around, the stars burned like many-colored embers in the heavens.MoreLess
Agleam to the edge of glowing, the heat shields still needed polishing; tested to the twelfth level of redundancy, the hatches and outlets required more rechecking and the power systems awaited reconfirmation; and even though her massive computers and internal relays had been cleared once a week for as long as anyone could reme...mber, the engineers insisted on one last glitch run before approving her systems as starworthy. Large black figures started to appear on her face; before the giant vessel could leave the dock, her registry markings would need time to set. Now known as Challenger Prototype Number 3, when she left at last for Ishtar she would be “CGS 2001.” Sometime after the dock crew began to work on the next formless mass, someone else would name her.
All around, the stars burned like many-colored embers in the heavens.MoreLess
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