18
IT WAS STRANGELY RELAXING, seeing all this planned, well organised activity.
I relayed what we had seen to Thayu when we came back.
We were sitting on the veranda, overlooking the valley where a couple of machines were going back and forth over the fields, which were starting to resemble crop fields with a patchwork of different colours as the turned soil dried out. They had rolled out a huge robotic installation that crawled over the field and sprayed water. Like Earth’s irrigation installations—if I was still wondering where these people had acquired the ideas, skills and materials.
These quiet, industrious workers had outsmarted everyone. For years, people on Earth had been worried about technology, like weapons, coming in from Asto, but nobody had worried much about technology g
