HomebodiesChapter 2
The HSAT-223 scramjet aircraft was older and considerably more uncomfortable than the SOL-343 that had brought Gath and the rest of the medics down from geosynchronous orbit. It lifted off from Homeport Ground at 1000 hours the next morning, its flying wing shape lumbering slowly into the sky under the meager power of its conventional jet turbine engines. It made a lumbering turn to the northwest and settled in for a steep climb up to altitude. Upon reaching eighteen thousand meters the...