Shepherd Moon: Omegaverse: Volume 1 by G.R. Cooper

Author:G.R. Cooper [Cooper, G.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-07-16T22:00:00+00:00

He pulled up the system map, then zoomed in on the fourth planet, centered on his position. There was too much around, nothing of which stood out enough as a beacon to let him find the spot again. He could mark his spot on the map, but even if he managed to find another mission back to this unnamed planet, in this unnamed system, there was no guarantee this rock would even exist. Maybe it was created just for this mission and would no longer exist when the mission was over.

Phani stood, moved away from the computer. He went back, leaned over and typed the commands to send the mining drone.

Sighing, he turned and left through the flat’s door, walked downstairs and out of the building into the heavy foot traffic crowding the small street. He weaved through the crowd to an open area, an intersection of several streets. Phani dug into his pocket, pulled out ten rupees and gave it to a tiny, wizened man sitting under an awning near a corner. He received a cigarette and a match in return. Phani put the cigarette gently in his pocket, thought, then bought another. The second he lit, inhaling deeply, then he made his way back to his home, weaving from awning to awning to stay as dry as possible.

At his building’s front door, Phani stopped and leaned back against the door jamb to dry for a bit. He watched the crowd moving through the street like two opposing rivers fighting for the same channel. He smoked. He thought. He pulled the unlit cigarette out of his pocket and put it behind his right ear.

He tried to picture how an offset load in the drone hopper would affect the ship. The center of thrust in a ship was aligned with the center of mass in a ship. Moving the center of mass off of the center of thrust would, should, affect the ship they way a rowboat would be by having one side row harder than the other. It would naturally want to curve in the direction of the added mass.

Phani puffed on the cigarette, pulled the smoke deep into his lungs.

In order to counteract the effect of the lopsided thrust, he thought, he’d need to roll his ship after each thrust, and thrust for an equal amount of time with the load on the other side of the ship. He thought that should result in a weaving but more or less straight line through space.

He stubbed out the cigarette and gave the remainder to a beggar boy. Then he climbed the stairs to his room.

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