Octagonal Raven
Chapter One
Earth Orbit, 375 N.E.
Had the orbital watch alert satellite contained a human being, or
even a sophisticated duoclone, that being might have scanned the
data and reported something like, Object classified as cometoid ...
spherical-octagonal, diameter forty-three meters, density two point
five, composition approximately eighty-two point four percent
water ... carbides and carbonates approximately fifteen percent ...
iron and sulfides, silicates and oxides below detection levels ... orbital
at trajectory at variance with origin in either Oort Cloud or
Kuiper Belt ...
Instead, the AI merely squirted its data analysis to the Long
Watch Asteroid Collision Center satellite inhabiting the L5 point
above the water planet below. In turn, the AI calculated orbital mechanics,
trajectory, and mass composition and, after ensuring the
object did not trigger any action parameters, stored the data for later
retrieval.
In time, the comet-like object intersected the thin up ... read full excerpt from Octagonal Raven ebook
