Stellar Storm by Cameron Cooper
Author:Cameron Cooper [Cooper, Cameron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-21T09:24:35+00:00
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WE CAME BACK TOGETHER AFTER a few hours of dinner and relaxation. Dalton had forced me to sit and eat a civilized meal with him at the table Lyssa built in the corner of the ship. There was even a candle.
The time away from all the data gave me a chance to assimilate it and come to a few decisions.
When we were all assembled once more, except for Ven and Byrne, who had already left for Terran space, I had Lyssa display the 3D of Gara City once more and pointed at the red building. âIâm going to work on the assumption that this is our target, for now. It will let us get on with planning the rest of the mission, as this is just our end point. We can adjust for a different target later, if we need to. Lyssa, move out and up, and track south to the interior, please.â
As she moved the display, I said, âLetâs find a place where we can land without drawing attention to ourselves, and track to the town from there.â
The display settled down once more and we all examined it.
Sauli groaned. âMore frigging fields?â
Everyone laughed.
âI donât understand,â Juliyana said. âThey actually grow their food outside?â
âCrack the door open and take a look outside,â Dalton told her. âTell me what you see.â
âFields, yes, but weâre inside the cylinder.â
âHumans grew food outside through most of their history,â Lyth pointed out.
âWhere it got rained on, destroyed by high winds and scorched by drought,â Juliyana replied.
I shuddered at the idea of high winds.
âSo maybe these Terrans are behind the development curve,â Colton said. âNew colony and all.â
âNot if theyâve got a harbor built and a town established,â Dalton replied.
âIt doesnât matter anyway,â I said. âFields mean people. We need to find somewhere not cultivated. Keep scanning, Lyssa.â
âLand that isnât cultivated is left alone for a reason,â Dalton said. âBoggy or rocky, or too steep for autocroppers to navigateââ
âIf they even have autocroppers,â I said.
âThen humans with scythes,â Dalton said patiently. âIâm just saying that if we choose to not land in a field, or near one, then weâll find ourselves on inhospitable terrain.â
I nodded. âLetâs see what our options are, first.â
Lyssa scanned and stopped when she found something that seemed hopeful to her, while we all examined and discussed it. Then sheâd move on to another possibility.
We narrowed it down to three different locations, one of them more than twenty klicks from the escarpment that separated the arable lands from the coastal plateau. Despite the distance, it had the most promiseâit was remote and not too densely wooded. The other two were both too close to civilization and the escarpment. âThat cliff is a problem,â I said.
Lyth nodded. âEvery easy way down will have already been discovered and used by the Terrans.â
I sighed. âLet me look at the tip of the peninsula again.â
âThen weâll have to move right through the town itself to get to the complex,â Dalton pointed out, as the display shifted to show the rocky headland at the end of the peninsular.
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