You may say wistfully, “if only my car could talk”, but to a good mechanic, a car speaks plenty. Spader rigs, too, it seems.
Security Agent Captain Cassandra Quinn is on assignment to the mining outpost Luna Seven amid rumors of pirates near the outpost. On her approach to the complex, she saw something moving around on the surface of the moon that shouldn’t have been. During her attempts to verify her visual sighting, a mysterious ship blasted her out of the sky. Her story starts HERE.
Meanwhile, miner Simon Tripline is waking up and getting ready for his day while the morning news talks of Terraluna Universal’s plans to project their logo onto the moon, which has drawn protests. The news also mentions rumors of piracy surrounding the disappearance of a shipment of ore from Luna Seven. As Simon walks to work, he sees something strange through a porthole. Did he really see it? Or were his eyes playing tricks on him?
Nothing like a bit of coffee to clear the senses, but even that brings an irritant in the form of Vin Sinclair, who is evidently one of Luna Seven’s top performers on the drill. But is there a dark secret to his success? Simon’s story starts HERE.
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Jim’s voice – it’s gotta be “Ham” from Toy Story. Or at least someone who does a good New York “Wise-Guy”.
hee hee… funny how these things translate across the Pacific.
I actually see Jimmy as a southern boy, the kind of country boys I grew up with out in the middle of nowhere. They were country through-and-through, and they might not have seemed smart on the surface, but they knew machinery like no one’s business.
As for a voice… think Mater from Cars, or Slim Pickens from… the 60s and 70s.
They should not breathe that dusk. Lunar regolith contains much shattered rock with sharp points. On Earth, weathering rounds the rocks in dust, but Luna has no weather. That dust could destroy their lungs.
Yeah, they’d have a hard time with that nasty old regolith if dust technology and medicine hadn’t improved. Luckily, in the future, there’s RegoLax, an inhaler-based mist that prevents or repairs 93% of the damage caused by unweathered airborne particulates. But yeah, it’s a real problem in 2010.