H2LiftShips - Beyond Luna
Description
It's cold, rocky, and a little dark.
Solar Sail cargo ships ply the commercial space from Earth to the distant Asteroids. Trading foodstuffs, coal, and nuclear engines for pure steel alloys, ZeroG Wool, and bioGel computers.
Anti-Dystopian SciFi because we have too much Dystopia right now.
Just regular sentients making a living in the void around our Sun: Earth, Luna, Mars/Phobos, and the Asteroid belt. Gig work is the norm, jumping from job to job, trying to earn enough for air, food, shelter, and waste treatment.
The ships' crew, Captain Graciela, Jack, Tang, and Octopus, work with a boost crew to cross the empty divide before getting the laser boost at the Lagrangian station.
Meet, barter or run from multiple sentient societies on the asteroids, many a variation on Earth's history.
Gambling at the Luna Casino and in Las Vegas and a trip across the desert for tasty carne asada burritos round out the journeys.
Gigging the Void, is this our Asteroid Future?
Yes: Solar Sail ships, nuclear-powered boost lasers, coal for steel, no aliens, but an Octopus First Mate.
No: Aliens, Monsters, blasters, pyrotechnic computers, Anti-Grav powered rockets.
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Content
Preamble
Chapter 01 - Imagine a World
Chapter 02 - The Journey
Chapter 03 - Shore Leave
Chapter 04 - Launching from Luna
Chapter 05 - Jose's Taco
Chapter 06 - The Jump, another view
Chapter 07 - Boost Crew/LunaCola
Chapter 08 - Ship's Crew
Chapter 09 - LunaCola's Crew
Chapter 10 - Back to Earth
Chapter 11 - Unloading-The Heat
Chapter 12 - The Party
Chapter 13 - Port Niland
Chapter 14 - Travel on Earth
Chapter 15 - Shopping Trip
Chapter 16 - Happy Camp
Chapter 17 - Yosemite
Chapter 18 - Las Vegas
Chapter 19 - Launch from Earth
Chapter 20 - Escape from Luna
Chapter 21 - The Asteroid Colonies
Chapter 22 - FOBtM
Chapter 23 - Around the Asteroids.
Chapter 24 - Caerus and poker
Chapter 25 - Caerus in the Rear-View Mirror
Chapter 26 - Vesta
Chapter 27 - Sell Time
Chapter 28 - Leaving Vesta
Chapter 29 - Sisyphus in the Apollos
Chapter 30 - Landing on Phobos
Chapter 31 - Gigging the Void
Chapter 32 - Mining
Chapter 33 - The CMU
Chapter 34 - Cleaning
Chapter 35 - Union Meeting
Chapter 36 - Farming
Chapter 37 - Microbiology
Chapter 38 - Chemistry
Chapter 39 - Power
Chapter 40 - Steel
Chapter 41 - Administration
Chapter 42 - Poker
Chapter 43 - Jail
Chapter 44 - Bail
Chapter 45 - Wharfie
Chapter 46 - Black Hornet
Chapter 47 - Route, BlackHornet
Chapter 48 - Pirate Attack
Chapter 49 - Hunting Luna
Chapter 50 - Cards
Chapter 51 - Revenge
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