The Monkey and Squirrel fight for freedom. by Adrian eng Smith Page A
Authors: Adrian eng Smith
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make a home in the human world, they have set out to build their own world away from us. I cannot see any sane person looking at it any other way. So of course the achievement of so much, from such a position of disadvantage is very worthy of admiration.”
The show descended into a shouting match, but a very different opinion had hit the public awareness and it changed a few minds.
The crew of the Human ship was ordered to examined the mine sites, to see what was salvageable, but nothing useful had been left behind only the plaque carved into the rock of a mined out asteroid.
THE NATION OF THE NEW PEOPLE STARTED YEAR ONE HERE WITH BUILDING THEIR FIRST HOME. LONG LIVE THE NEW PEOPLE.
This image was devoured by the media and was seen all round the world before anyone who would have wanted to could stop it, they still ordered it blown up. This was ignored by the ship crew as impractical, dangerous and pointless. No one was left in any doubt as to how the New People regarded themselves, even those who steadfastly believed they could not be people.
The Human deep space ship was initially ordered to Mars to refuel so it could pursue the New People. But on eventually reaching Mars, priorities had changed. It now had to recover the mine service vessels, get the mines and flow of resources restarted anyway possible. Once the mines were back in operation to bring back the high value materials. This was a problem as the only cargo space on the ship was the missile magazines. So they stored their missiles in the oldest least serviceable of the vessels and put it in an even higher orbit.
Other problems started with the mine inspectors, who had been ordered to become the new miners. It had been so long since they had anything to do with the actual mining it was a shock. In short not only did they not want to be miners, they didn't know how to mine. As how did they start up what effectively was a new mining infrastructure for the asteroids with only the old tried equipment left on the old mine service ships. They did know that it would involve working from small uncomfortable ships, for extensive periods of time. They were told point blank, no one was going home until the mines were producing, so stop arguing and get to it.
The shortage of raw materials and absence of orbital factories. Was the cause of a mass realisation on Earth of how much they had depended on the workers and products of space based industry. Those few nations with space infrastructure unaffected by recent events had expanded production and capacity as much as possible to profit from their change in circumstances.
The problems continued to mount, such as the cost of buying infrastructure from the Chinese, the only ones selling. Who exploited their advantage as the most significant remaining space power to greatest effect. The Chinese also had a mining Moon colony, which produced a limited but very useful range of materials suitable for space construction, as well as a small range of manufactured products.
Starting from the ground again was an even more expensive option. So the former space powers gritted their teeth, paid the asking price and hoped to regain their lost prominence.
With all the noise of a busy world the New People were out of the headlines, so were slowly forgotten by all but the most obsessed.
The new reality slowly became accepted as normal. The Chinese recruited the media tagged 'controversial' engineer from the TV show. His name was James Reid, Jimmy to his friends to build habitats as self-sustaining colonies. The first was to be a base for asteroid mining operations, with all industrial activity completely separate from the living areas and farming sections. When a journalist asked how he felt he replied 'ecstatic bliss.' The next question was how much are you getting paid? 'I don't know, I haven't asked' was the surprising reply.
Meanwhile on their way to Saturn the New People
The show descended into a shouting match, but a very different opinion had hit the public awareness and it changed a few minds.
The crew of the Human ship was ordered to examined the mine sites, to see what was salvageable, but nothing useful had been left behind only the plaque carved into the rock of a mined out asteroid.
THE NATION OF THE NEW PEOPLE STARTED YEAR ONE HERE WITH BUILDING THEIR FIRST HOME. LONG LIVE THE NEW PEOPLE.
This image was devoured by the media and was seen all round the world before anyone who would have wanted to could stop it, they still ordered it blown up. This was ignored by the ship crew as impractical, dangerous and pointless. No one was left in any doubt as to how the New People regarded themselves, even those who steadfastly believed they could not be people.
The Human deep space ship was initially ordered to Mars to refuel so it could pursue the New People. But on eventually reaching Mars, priorities had changed. It now had to recover the mine service vessels, get the mines and flow of resources restarted anyway possible. Once the mines were back in operation to bring back the high value materials. This was a problem as the only cargo space on the ship was the missile magazines. So they stored their missiles in the oldest least serviceable of the vessels and put it in an even higher orbit.
Other problems started with the mine inspectors, who had been ordered to become the new miners. It had been so long since they had anything to do with the actual mining it was a shock. In short not only did they not want to be miners, they didn't know how to mine. As how did they start up what effectively was a new mining infrastructure for the asteroids with only the old tried equipment left on the old mine service ships. They did know that it would involve working from small uncomfortable ships, for extensive periods of time. They were told point blank, no one was going home until the mines were producing, so stop arguing and get to it.
The shortage of raw materials and absence of orbital factories. Was the cause of a mass realisation on Earth of how much they had depended on the workers and products of space based industry. Those few nations with space infrastructure unaffected by recent events had expanded production and capacity as much as possible to profit from their change in circumstances.
The problems continued to mount, such as the cost of buying infrastructure from the Chinese, the only ones selling. Who exploited their advantage as the most significant remaining space power to greatest effect. The Chinese also had a mining Moon colony, which produced a limited but very useful range of materials suitable for space construction, as well as a small range of manufactured products.
Starting from the ground again was an even more expensive option. So the former space powers gritted their teeth, paid the asking price and hoped to regain their lost prominence.
With all the noise of a busy world the New People were out of the headlines, so were slowly forgotten by all but the most obsessed.
The new reality slowly became accepted as normal. The Chinese recruited the media tagged 'controversial' engineer from the TV show. His name was James Reid, Jimmy to his friends to build habitats as self-sustaining colonies. The first was to be a base for asteroid mining operations, with all industrial activity completely separate from the living areas and farming sections. When a journalist asked how he felt he replied 'ecstatic bliss.' The next question was how much are you getting paid? 'I don't know, I haven't asked' was the surprising reply.
Meanwhile on their way to Saturn the New People
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