Running Toward Home by M B Panichi

Author:M B Panichi [Panichi, M B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781594934001
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2014-05-19T22:00:00+00:00

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Later that day, Shaine, Morgan, Josef Waylin, Garren and Amaar Ahmed, the primary System Operations and Site Engineer, sat around a table in a cramped conference room. Plas-sheets of data covered the dark, faux-wood surface along with architectural and engineering designs. To the side of the table, a touch screen easel had a handwritten list of the meeting notes and a column of action items scrawled along one side.

Amaar tapped on his pad and the image on the easel changed to a basic diagram of the mining site.

He used a laser pointer to indicate the area he was interested in. “You are thinking that here, here and here, we’d have external security cameras, yes?”

Shaine nodded. “For now, that will be enough. They’re out of the way of the construction crews, but we’d still get visual of the whole area.”

“Sounds good,” Garren agreed. “First priority, though, we need that underground shelter finished.”

Amaar confirmed, “We should have it done within the next week. The dig is programmed into the rock borer and it’s in process.” He glanced at his pad. “There haven’t been any issues so far.” He flipped to another blueprint and highlighted a part of it. “We’re creating a living area, an emergency medical unit, a secondary control center and a docking and maintenance space that should allow room for two regular transport shuttles and a workspace. The shelter will be linked to both the temporary living dome and then to the permanent dome after it’s been sealed. There will also be an underground connection to the processing plant when that’s ready.”

“Good,” Garren said, leaning back in his chair. “I think that about covers what we need to discuss for now. Anyone need anything else?” He got back negative indications and smiled. “Excellent. We’re on schedule, so that’s a good thing.” He looked at Shaine and Morgan. “Are you staying here for the duration, or headed back to Moon Base?”

Shaine said, “We’ll stay here. I’ve got new hire résumés coming to me to start filling out the security team. I won’t bring people out right away. There’s no rush yet.”

Garren frowned. “Is Rogan going to be involved?”

Shaine shook her head. “Peripherally. He’ll need to know what’s happening at a high level, but I’m doing the hiring. He won’t have any say on a day-to-day basis.”

The dark-haired man smiled. “Thanks, Shaine. Nothing against Rogan, of course.”

Morgan choked on a dry laugh. Garren frowned at her and she shook her head. “Later,” she muttered.

Shaine looked between the two, searching for similarities between siblings. Garren resembled his father in the broadness of his stature and his chiseled features, where Morgan had the almost elfin look of her mother—wiry and fine-boned. Her pale complexion was a result of growing up in space rather than on Earth. The only thing they had in common physically was their black hair. But where Morgan’s was fine and straight, Garren’s was thick and wavy. It was also much longer and tied with a metal clip at the nape of his neck.

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