LAGRANGE POINT
Cynthia May rode the shuttle from Moonbase to the mother ship. Uncle Tommy and his cousin, Sadie Lynch—for genealogical simplicity known as Aunt Sadie—accompanied her, the last living members of the family to leave Earth. A year before, her favorites—Uncle Ed, a vampire, his mate and wife Lorna, a lycan and their hybrid children—had relocated to Mars. Lycan-vampire hybrids aged as humans did. While Cynthia anticipated a lifespan approaching three centuries, her companions rarely lived more than a third of that.
Ahead, shining brightly against the black omniscient silence of space, a gigantic, silver passenger ring rotated slowly around an equally brilliant propulsion cylinder. Magnetic flux lines held the engineering plant at the center of the vast doughnut-shaped object. The centrifugal force generated by the silent rotation maintained an artificial gravity, a fifth of Earth’s. By creating a sense of up and down, the pull addressed the majority of disorientation or space sickness concerns for those who remained awake during the voyage to Mars.
Ahead, shining brightly against the black omniscient silence of space, a gigantic, silver passenger ring rotated slowly around an equally brilliant propulsion cylinder. Magnetic flux lines held the engineering plant at the center of the vast doughnut-shaped object. The centrifugal force generated by the silent rotation maintained an artificial gravity, a fifth of Earth’s. By creating a sense of up and down, the pull addressed the majority of disorientation or space sickness concerns for those who remained awake during the voyage to Mars.
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