Freedom #02 - Freedom's Choice by Anne McCaffrey

Author:Anne McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure, Science Fiction, Fiction, General, Space Opera, Space Colonies, Science Fiction; American, Fantasy Fiction; American, Slave Labor
ISBN: 9780441005314
Google: joxLI09Jq5kC
Amazon: 0441005314
Publisher: Ace
Published: 1997-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

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“Get into those garages and remove the anaesthetic darts from the launchers before those machines are fully charged.”

“Won’t such interference be noticed?” Beverly asked.

“I sure hope not. We took the first ones out when they were “down”, but you’d want to do it before they get fully operational.

Fill the reservoirs with water - that anaesthesia damned near put paid to a lot of us on the First Drop. Lenny Doyle or Pess’ll show you how; they’ve done it before.” ‘Any other suggestions, sergeant?” Beverly asked at his most respectful.

“Watch out for avian predators. Those machines can call them down on anything that moves where it shouldn’t.”

“Anything else?”

“If I think of something, I’ll let you know. But check with Cumber, Esker, the Doyle brothers, Matt Su, any of the First Drop who scouted for me.” Mitford had been sending back daily reports on their explorations. Now he turned back to his team.

“I thought for sure we’d have more than three weeks before anything happened,’ he said, scratching his head in a measure of anxiety. ‘Can we make a bit more speed on this thing, Sarah?” he asked, since she was the driver.

“Sure, but it’s about to get bumpy again.”

“We are not far now,’ said Zainal, peering out of the front windows.

“How long would it take the Eosi to do something, Zainal?” Mitford asked, now drumming restless fingers on his knee with his free hand as he clung to a safety strap with the other.

Zainal shrugged. ‘I do not think they can move as fast as Farmers. Eosi are not automated. Nor do they have matter transmission.” He chuckled.

“I sure hope it galls their souls to hell’n’back,’ Mitford said, grinning. ‘I sure hope it makes ‘em squirm with envy and dismay.” “Just so long as they keep out of our hair,’ Kris added. She knew that, despite Zainal’s assurances, she wasn’t the only one fretting over the possibility of Eosi reprisals on the colony. He

would know better than she, of course, but it didn’t keep her from worrying. She daren’t even think how the Farmers might react in a direct confrontation with their uninvited tenants, though Zainal’s point about the valleys’ protection barriers was comforting - as far as it went with an unknown species.

New Camp Narrow was located in one of the closed valleys, south and east of the original cliff installation and itself suitably narrow but longer than most. It had been opened up by the simple expedient of blowing the barrier down with ingredients taken from Baby’s arsenal.

Zainal had instructed several miners and an ax-ordnance officer on the explosive capability of the different substances in her lockers. The original notion had been to use such combustibles for mining operations. The Farmers had ignored the mineral and metal resources of the planet.

Inside the appropriately long, narrow valley, Baby and the KDL were parked one beside the other; despite Baby’s size in comparison to the larger, oblong transport vessel, she looked sleek, powerful and far more dangerous. Parts of the wrecked

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