Catskill-Soroyan star system, near the Piedmont asteroid mining facility, December 11, 2598. Strike Leader Sarkis, in command of two of the Sheik of Barsoom's destroyers and an additional four support vessels, paced the bridge of the Minotaur impatiently as his flagship ...
"...Stage two Whitney Communication is a frightfully complicated process. It is well known that long distance communication requires enormous amounts of power. Less well known is the fact that receiving a Stage two message requires only that the communicator's receiving hardware remains powered...