IX For four days major LaVer had been drilling the crew so they would be prepared for “a collision with minor flying object”, so everyone were more than annoyed when the siren woke them up in the middle of the night again. “And why would it be a minor object?” asked Ian Callum, mad that he was being dragged away from his work again. “Because if it were major, you wouldn’t even have time to pray,” LaVer explained, undisturbed. The four night long drill drudged all of the crews simultaneously. Bu it was essential to check if they still remembered all they had been taught back on Earth. Could they really co-operate in case of emergency? The chiefs of security were to analyze the results. And they just couldn’t do it now, because this time the emergency was real. Before the people were wo

