Yes, I need to edit this more (I've only been rewriting it for half an hour (ugh!).
"There's always been ships lost to the void. Blamed on navigational error, micro-meteoroids, solar flares... in the days of ships in water they wrote "Here There Be Dragons" at the edges of the maps, and once men made it to the edge, they moved the tag to the in-between the known areas. The big back is all in-between."
This is why I need to write out the crappy first draft and then go back to edit, instead of edit while you go along. Not happy with it, love the feeling behind it. Need to merge the two more.
Oh, and there's a bit about insurance and co-payments. If that shouldn't strike fear in the modern reader, I don't know what could.
2 comments:
Does the shuttle commander get an insurance discount for taking the 'safe pilot' flying course?
If two ships collide while both try to avoid a dead satellite, is it a no-fault accident?
Or perhaps I misread this and you mean inter-galactic health insurance. That would be scary.
Todd, well, the Space Maritime Rescue people are damn expensive (wormhole drillin' costin' the GNP of a midsize country and all), so they have to make sure that 1) the spacers' contracts stipulate an "all costs rescue" (standard union boilerplate, but we both know how that goes) and 2) the company's insurance policy is up to date and will pay (pre-approval, it's the wave of the future).
Post a Comment