The Martian Rebellion by D.I Young

Author:D.I Young [Young, D.I]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9: The reaction

Corbett was sitting in the lawyer’s office while they went over the will. Corbett knew that today was the day that the colony would be launching the probe to the meteor. His wife had been the CEO of a small Airline company that she had created, she had owned 51%of the shares. They did a few commercial flights, but they mainly hired out planes to Celebrities and VIPs etc. The company had been privately owned so he inherited everything. They personally had a private Jet in their name, but the rest of the planes were in the company name. She had left him the business, the Jet and everything.

“Now Corbett, she left you pretty much all of her financial assets, and a couple of small things that were important to her. But the rest of her belongings she’s left to the rest of her family, such as her Antique smart phone collection. She also had requested, but understands if you don’t do this, that you let her sister run the day to day things for the company as she wants you to keep your job at NASA. Any questions?”

Corbett understood and was thankful the company wouldn’t be another thing he had to worry about. He just wanted the bodies of his wife and child back to cremate them, burials had been outlawed in the late 21st century due to overpopulation. He also kept thinking about the meteor that was coming to Earth. So much was running through his head, he had considered the easy way out, but he knew that the Martian colony needed him. The thing he wanted most was answers. “Yeah, do they know what caused the crash yet?”

“Well the full extensive reports not in yet, and the black boxes haven’t been found yet, but they think it was engine failure.”

“Alright, were there any survivors?”

“None at all, I’m surprised she chose to fly through a commercial airline and not with one of your planes or pilots.”

“She had won a trip for two. So, she took our son as I couldn’t get time off work, with the supply runs coming up and we’ve been having issues that have needed resolving on the Martian colony.” The world was unaware that the Martian war of independence was happening.

“Ok, I need you just to sign these forms and we can get this sorted.”

Corbett left the lawyers office. He hadn’t been in at work for the last couple of weeks after what had happened, he would go back tomorrow. He came back home opened a bottle of rum and started drinking from the bottle while checking his email.

Hi Xander, the launch was successful we have confirmed that they have landed on the Meteor. The Demeter and Charon will need minor course adjustments and that’s all taken care of. We’ll keep you posted, we believe this plan will work, but we suggest staying out of Europe in 9 months’ time. We haven’t heard from you in a while is everything ok.

Corbett

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