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Sixty or so years ago, Michielborg was a booming town -- not glamorous, and not exactly prosperous, but full of workers and equipment extracting nickel and copper from its deep mines. Even forty years ago, when the ore deposits were mostly played out and the company mostly gone, there were still some stubborn folk scratching out a living here ( Read more... ) -
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It takes a day and a half, from the time Gabriel Tam brought the news, for Galadan and River to put the pieces together. (Even with their particular skills, this would be a significantly slower process without Senator Tam's many resources. They're not the only ones poring through records of Aberdeen's recent criminal activity; there are several ( Read more... ) -
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The Midas is a short-range ship: bulky, heavy-browed, dingy outside and in. It sacrifices fuel efficiency for the power to haul lots of cargo through atmo and space alike; it'd run out of fuel before it got too far into the black, but it's plenty for short runs between Aberdeen and its surrounding moons. There are a few guns on the outside -- not ( Read more... ) -
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Flora Vista is the biggest town for a long ways -- half a day's shuttle ride, by the standards of local equipment. Less than that for something flashy, but nobody has flashy vehicles around this part of the 'verse, unless if's something they've souped up themselves.
It's still not big. But there's a run-down theater, a doctor, five churches, two ( Read more... ) -
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The Tacitus, newly rechristened, is a small refurbished military vessel. Nothing fancy, a little battered around the edges, not the best racing ship ever, but steady and reliable ( Read more... ) -
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Serenity is quiet. There's the barely-audible background hum of the engine, but not much else. It's not too early to be awake, but it's still early enough, especially in the middle of a long run between worlds. There's nowhere much to go, and most of the crew is still waking up or just starting off a leisurely morning ( Read more... ) -
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Moon Base Station is, apart from certain restricted-access sectors, built for tourism. Some tourists, like Duo, are just killing time during a layover; others come here, to the cheap hotels or the expensive ones with a real-time video view of Earth, to spend their whole vacation within the base's walls ( Read more... ) -
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River's lying on the catwalk, staring at the far wall or the empty air. One hand is curled by her cheek, the back of her hand resting against the metal gridwork of the floor; her hair and her skirt spread out around her.
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The rafters have a few advantages.
They're comfortable, for one thing! (If you're River Tam.) And interesting. And sometimes you find candy. And they provide a fun change of perspective.
And sometimes they're a good way to find people.