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Karen had to admit that she was enjoying life in Chile. She’d been provided with a beautiful villa, complete with orchards and swimming pool, and SAI were showing their further appreciation by paying her an extremely handsome salary – far more than she required for day to day living. Food was good, the weather was mostly good, the people were very friendly, and the instant translation software that had been patched into her Telepathic Implant Software was a godsend. She’d started Spanish lessons but until she felt more confident, the patch meant that she could still fend for herself. She had even been given the latest VertiCar Hopper Executive, a model normally reserved for government officials.
The orbital construction and the testing of the recently enhanced Variable Specific Impuls
