But what was driving the killers? How did they choose their victims? This couldn’t be discerned by the dry statistics, I’ll have to figure that out once I’m there, in the city of Lunnar. It was built on the far side of the moon, where most of the smaller mines and the entire administrative division were located. Initially, it wasn’t as much of a city as an ordinary mining settlement where truly Spartan conditions prevailed. Now, according to my informant, there was no lack of comfort there, and modern technology provided protection against radiation flooding the Earth’s satellite, against the terrible cold of the ‘night’ and overheating while the city was illuminated by the sun.
The ‘lunar day’ was in fact very useful, as that’s when the gigantic batteries were charged which provided the
