Chapter 24
The Orion hummed. Sartre nodded to Madsen, who signaled the ground crew that all systems were a go. He couldn’t believe that after ten years of working on Orion that all the systems checks were showing everything was online and operational. They had had a series of system failures, and then re-working around the issues.
But the time had finally come.
The last two days were a flurry of activity as they had to confirm who was leaving Neso. Several had changed their minds, creating space for those who wanted to go.
Finding possible sustainable futures in one of the Keplers was one of the dreams Pierre had when Sartre first encountered Kira and Pierre on Mars.
And now, it looked like they would find out soon if one of the Keplers was viable for the human race. If so, then th
