It unquestionably intended to act against Home in a like manner, but its fleet was destroyed, except one vessel that has surrendered, voluntarily decommissioned and stopped it's aggression.In addition to bombing Central on the moon, an assassination attempt with injury was made upon my person at ...
"That sounds really crude," he decided. "Why wouldn't they use fliers? All our spy bots on Earth have that capacity." He thought for a bit staring off at nothing and April didn't interrupt his thought. "Of course it would be different to make a mini-bot to fly in zero G. It isn't just programming...
"More an occasional twinge," Kurt assured him. "They have a nerve stimulator on it that senses when it hurts and injects a message to counter it. Sort of like wearing noise cancelling headphones. I just get a quick pin prick now and then, and it disappears almost as soon as I notice it." "Can you...
Faye, Anna, Edna and I like to do the nice middle class neighborhoods. We lived in a much nicer section ourselves, down near Sarasota, but God's own truth is, rich people don't put anything out at sale until it's used up, worn out, and ready to throw away. Stuff less well to do people would be em...
"It appears to have gone off course a bit and then lost power.""No wonder they didn't use a missile on the station folk's drone if they are that shoddy," the Captain said. "They could at least have a self-destruct capacity built into them for when they fail.""Yes but what did they use?" the firs...
It gave her new insight on how her dad treasured a day off, without the constant intrusion of one crisis after another from his job. She listened to the news again, walking to the gym where she had a private running room reserved. It was Wednesday, October 6, 2083 and she listened to a non-govern...
Most people did business over the com and he had very few visitors to his work space. He liked it that way. "Just a moment!" he called and looked over his desk and shelves carefully to make sure nothing of a confidential nature was visible. Then he shut his computer completely off. Turning just t...
"It's here in the com console and we had a really good demonstration on it in school today.""I'm glad for you, but I want to go to supper now. You can show me tomorrow when you're not in school.""Promise mom?" Lindsy asked. "Eric is right about this. It's really important. We'll be home with you ...
"I mean... there's all kinds of things we need to say, but I'm not sure what is within our ability yet. Showing them a travel itinerary is kind of hard to expand into anything real abstract. Gordon apparently taught them 'yes' but I'm not even sure how to teach them 'no'. I had a lot more success...
There was no enlisted men's mess to distinguish it from, because every man aboard was an officer. Even the three who shared duty shifts as cooks. But the traditional usage continued. It was one of the few comfortable places to work on board. He used the thin screen on the wall and avoided his so ...