Chapter One
David Hutchins had just gotten to the trickiest part of repairing the
base's nuclear generator — aligning the fuel injector and the ignition
lasers to meet in the exact center of the reaction chamber — when the
communicator at his hip vibrated. He didn't want to answer, but the
Union situation here on Mars was too tenuous for him to ignore any
calls.
Leaving the lasers hot, he slipped the commlink off his belt and thumbed
it on. "Hutchins," he said absently, his mind still on the generator
problem.
"David, this is Raedawn. I need you down here right away. Something is
happening to Earth." She sounded either excited or upset, and that
caught David's attention. Captain Raedawn Corona, the expedition's
intelligence officer, was known for her trademark cool.
"You mean something is happening on Earth." Even as he spoke,
David leaned over and peered into the exposed reaction chamber. The
lasers crossed in a perfect six-sided star as they poured their energy
into one central point. A little squirt of deuterium to that same point
would flash to plasma in an instant, and the magnetic containment field
would keep that pl ... read full excerpt from Vor: The Rescue ebook
