Chapter Nine
Chapter NinePhoenix Starship Neil Armstrong—Keid Inner Sphere
Phoenix Starship Neil ArmstrongJocara eased Armstrong around the massive pair of linear drivers on the north equatorial tube until radar revealed the spoke connecting the tube to the inner sphere. Maintaining a ten-kilometer distance, she worked her way down the spoke, looking, she imagined, like a fly crawling down a skyscraper girder.
ArmstrongBehind the spacecraft, Keid-C filled nearly five degrees of sky with deep, angry red fire. Jocara pointed to the holoscreen.
“Look at that, will you? Ran is three and a half times as large, but Keid-C out there is nine times Ran’s apparent width from Arcan. Frankly, it fills me with awe.”
“It’s pretty much the same for Sol and Earth,” eDaphne said. “And someone enclosed
