Moving ForwardChapter 3
It took thirty hours to unload the transport on arrival at the colony. Tenders transferred the pods from orbit to the surface while the families transported down separately. The colonists’ families had settled in by then, so there were no real problems moving them through the transporters, just a few wayward children. Once on the ground the colonists were someone else’s problem. The ship’s crew handed over to a dockyard crew while they took a short home leave. This system wasn’t Craig’s...