2100, 25 September. MATER 1. Around 5:00 PM on Earth.
A few minutes after docking, David’s group was walking along the side passageway to reach the main passageway. Even if each member had already seen images and footage of the compartments of that space freighter during their training period, they continued looking around, amazed at the technology that they could see even in the narrowest spaces and the smallest things. They all walked about three hundred feet to get to a large central compartment with flights of steps on both sides leading off in several directions. David stopped in amazement and stood in the middle of the compartment along with the other people on board the ship. That place reminded him of a central compartment of a cruise liner. Of course, the analogy will require nec
