Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

"I've heard that too, but we are unarmed, surely theycould get a warship out here before now?""Didn't you just say they were all busy swatting comets?"she asked."Have you heard anything credible?" Thom asked."Morg was asked to calculate what it would take to put usin a parking orbit in the Kuiper belt instead of the asteroidbelt.""That's an awful lot of vector from our current course," hesaid. He knew how little a ship like this could change course,a parking orbit in the Kuiper Belt was at least three billionmiles from Sol and that was a significant change of coursewhen they were only forty three billion miles away."I know," she said. "Morg said he wasn't even sure wecould do it. He want’s to park in Jupiter's orbit, well awayfrom the planet and any of its Trojans.""I bet they want us to look around out here," Thom said."I don't think we'll find anything, but we should probablykeep our backups current just in case, not that I think anyonewill ever make it out here looking for backups to resurrect.""There has to be something, Revelation 22:5 says we'regoing to live in heaven forever." She just looked at him. Atthis angle it would be easy to misinterpret her expression, butAva had never been very pious to start with and had notclosed ranks with the League and the Church once they wereunder attack. She opposed the war in the first place andthought it was stupid to attack Brasil because it would take130