‘Boarding team proceeding to breach,’ Bashford’s voice said from the console speakers and three figures in skin-tight vacuum suits appeared from the airlock under the bridge.īashford was leading he had the experience and skill. ‘No residual gasses.’ĭrake, his hands shifting delicately over the controls for the manoeuvring jets, nodded and skated the Garnet Hyde to a stationary position near the hole in the hull. ‘Radiation readings negative,’ Patton said. In fact, the only major damage seemed to be at one edge of the disc-shaped craft where something had torn through the hull. Far enough away from any system that the space really was empty, it had avoided collision with asteroids and comets which might have damaged it badly, but there was a lot of pitting from minor dust impacts and cosmic rays. The hulk looked like it was in surprisingly good condition, given that it was floating in deep space. Spotlights worked their way along the hull of the wreck searching out a method of ingress. Contents Part One: Aneka Part Two: Where Men Once Walked Part Three: On the Edge Part Four: Terra Nova Part Five: Plus ça Change Part Six: Humanity Part Seven: Facilitating Change
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