Five A shuttle approaching the OWME Passenger Liner Star of Carolina, orbiting Forest “Geez, Dad, that thing is huge.” “It’s not as big as the old Mayflower, but it’ll do,” Mike Crider agreed with his son, staring at the huge, slate-blue mass of the passenger liner...

Four High Earth Orbit An enormous disk of a ship coasted slowly towards high Earth orbit.  A slight glow of a Gellar drive under one-quarter power slowly edged the enormous disk into the parking orbit recently vacated by the passenger liner Star of Carolina, just...