The Monkey and Squirrel fight for freedom. by Adrian eng Smith Read Free Book Online Page B

observation by Earth of the New Peoples habitats engine tests, resulted in more excited debate on Earth along the same inevitable paranoid lines as the earlier observation of the habitats construction. As they didn't appear to be doing anything interesting the media had forgotten them. The Squirrels, using email accounts set up in the names of station staff during the years of slavery, sent the opinions in those names to the media, saying the animals were just going to run away again.
    Those who saw conspiracy everywhere, latched on to this seeing the hand of government, declared that they were hiding something frightening. What that was, depended on who you listened to. The media played these in the usual way. The monkeys, the squirrels mostly forgotten, were planning some act of revenge. But the out bound deep space vessel was carrying nuclear Armageddon to stop the Monkeys. The only bit they did get right was their human deep space vessel was bearing Armageddon. It's mission to remove the embarrassment that was the runaway slave’s great escape. Cheered on by the likes of the Humans supreme party. 
     
    When the Chinese ship-station arrived in Mars orbit, and once in a stable orbit it announced its arrival. The Mars colonists wasted no time in launching their shuttles, their priority was the desperately need spares for their life support. Once the essentials had been taken care of, they gave the crew a hero’s welcome such was their relief. So for a few days it was party time for the crew. Then it was back to work getting the station ready to service the mine service vessels, this required the reconfiguring of the cargo ship into a space station. Even though this was part of the design it would still take several months, the priority had been to get the essential supplies to the Mars colonists, then the service ships had to be recovered before work on them could start.
     
    Not long after the relief of Mars, The Human deep space ship's course left the New People  in no doubt it was heading for them, its calculated arrival date still gave them a thirty one day lead, if they kept to the scheduled departure date.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 4
    Operation runaway gets under way
     
    The time for the Newp exodus from the asteroid mines had approached rapidly, then in what it felt like in the blink of an eye it was time to go. Their lead had been reduced to twenty seven days due to fatal accidents from fatigue, it was time enough, it had to be.
    “This is it, everything and everyone is ready, do you feel the excitement Tman.”
    “Yes, in less than twelve hours the convoy will have enough manoeuvring room for us to set off, the miner’s home leading off and the old stations at the rear behind the habitats.”
    “Why in that order?” asked Chatty.
    “To minimise our light signature, once the alarm signals the arrival of the Genocide ship, we cease acceleration until Earth is on the far side of the Sun. Then we change course from Jupiter to Saturn initially going on the wrong side of the elliptic that works to our advantage, without continuous observation we will be very hard to find, especially with the initial course change. The humans will realise we have changed course when we can't be found along the projection of the old one. They will search the most likely courses to those possible alternatives they think of. But they will be hampered by not knowing when it occurred and our acceleration. It’s a very big sky and we are a relatively very small collection of objects in it. With our exhaust at an oblique angle to Earth observation we'll be hard to see even when they are looking directly at us.”explained Tman.
    “They will go into meltdown again once we disappear,” signed Chatty.
    “We can listen; laser communications only between us and narrow angle forward radar only, passive detection for signs of pursuit, should keep us hidden.”signed Tman.
    “How long will they worry about what