Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

said, "really killed.""We have backups," he said, putting his faith in thepromise of the Church."Who would ever find them out here?" she asked."There's beacons on the canister.""That are good for a million miles, it's that far betweensnowballs out here."He thought about saying that this war may provokesettlement of this region, but decided he didn't want to arguewith her, worked on his gin and tonic instead. The night wassultry and the full moon was nearly a permanent fixture intheir nighttime sky, twinkling off the gentle swells in thelagoon. The clean tang of high tide brushed his nostrils. Avahad spent a long time on her universe and built a lot, onlyMorg's and Heymon's and, of course, Alan's, were larger.There were more Caribbean islands in Ava's universe than thereal one. The archipelago was as big as Japan but the islandswere smaller and more numerous. Unlike Morg's southpacific, there were no other settlers in this universe.He was going to have to spend more time with theassembler bot manuals to get his new hardware assembledand he would probably have to call Pete Maples to get itcalibrated and tested. He wished he had been able to makethese experiments in deep space, not the edge of the KuiperBelt. The Heavenly Mother had been the last Pan SolarLeague ship on this route, less than forty years before. Theirinstruments had detected the possibility of naturally133