Chapter Fifteen
EARTH-MOON L2—OUTSIDE HABITAT
It took an all-hands effort to complete the Mercury rocket and get it ready for transit to the innermost planet, all hands, that is, except for the upload parties. Thorpe and Braxton headed to the Oort Cloud to install a beacon at that farthest Solar System outpost, taking eDaphne and eMax with them. eSally and eBrad worked together on portal infrastructure. They wanted to maximize the number of portals to the available power to ensure that larger and especially longer portals would not shut down as a result of adding more portals to the system.
Daphne and Sally worked together at Phoenix on the hatbox and the feeders for power, hydrogen, and hypergolic fuel. At Earth-Moon L2, Dale and Brad assembled the components and made sure that everyth
