"Honey, have I got a surprise for you!""Not another one!" Menara feels a cold stab of uncertainty."Just call me 'Mister Cool', " Leon says, sweeping back his cropped, blond hair and fixing his wife with his deep blue eyes."Don't tell me, you've bought kilos of turnips again, " Menara says. Leon looks affectionately at his wife and takes in her auburn hair and green eyes."I've sold all we own and bought a homestead in New Arizona!""What?""It's on the planet Zoranis, in the Mensa constellation, " Leon says with enthusiasm."Are you out of your mind?" Menara shouts.
They charter a ship. The crew look dubious. They enter cryosleep. When they wake up they are in a lab being experimented on. According to Leon their homestead in new Arizona is in God's own land. It is a paradise. The natives are semi-sentient and work hard for low wages and the scenery and the weather are fabulous. Leon escapes and joins with the Fracklia. There are twelve orbital stations in Neptune's atmosphere to harvest helium three.
The Harvesters prefer to live on Triton rather than in the blue clouds of Neptune. Their semi-automated orbital stations are easy to run. All that is needed is course corrections to avoid collisions and routine maintenance on the vacuum distillers and the compressors.
"Honey, have I got a surprise for you!""Not another one!" Menara feels a cold stab of uncertainty."Just call me 'Mister Cool', " Leon says, sweeping back his cropped, blond hair and fixing his wife with his deep blue eyes."Don't tell me, you've bought kilos of turnips again, " Menara says. Leon looks affectionately at his wife and takes in her auburn hair and green eyes."I've sold all we own and bought a homestead in New Arizona!""What?""It's on the planet Zoranis, in the Mensa constellation, " Leon says with enthusiasm."Are you out of your mind?" Menara shouts.
They charter a ship. The crew look dubious. They enter cryosleep. When they wake up they are in a lab being experimented on. According to Leon their homestead in new Arizona is in God's own land. It is a paradise. The natives are semi-sentient and work hard for low wages and the scenery and the weather are fabulous. Leon escapes and joins with the Fracklia. There are twelve orbital stations in Neptune's atmosphere to harvest helium three.
The Harvesters prefer to live on Triton rather than in the blue clouds of Neptune. Their semi-automated orbital stations are easy to run. All that is needed is course corrections to avoid collisions and routine maintenance on the vacuum distillers and the compressors.