Inferno #02 01 мая 2001

Samizdat - Dragonland: Wild Honey.

          Wild honey.


(C) LUNOHOD1


                                Angel'u.

              Angel, my dear, once again

                        thanks for the idea.

                                     ZX.


    Sin came into the wheelhouse. Everything was as
usual. Display lights circuits systems
ship and columns of figures. Experienced
Cena look familiar appreciated this picture
- Everything was in order.

    Chair in the center of a semicircular console
turned to him.

    - It's OK - reported sitting in a
chair. - All vehicle systems are working
normal. During the watch is no accident. Watch passed.

    - Watch received - said Shin and strode to the console.

    With the semi-official organ was finished and now
pilots could talk easily.

    - How long before Roy, Yull? - Asked
Sin.

    - Three million - who passed responded
watch the pilot seat and lost mate. -
After 15 hours we should start braking,
and then flying into Roy at all speeds.

    Fly into Roy at full speed
can only mean one thing: certain death ship.

    Shin looked at the screen radar. He
looked like a riddled target, which was shot from several 
barrels of various calibers. In the past, flight radar screen 
began to look only two million kilometers. Roy is expanding. 
This is good: reduced density, increased chance of returning. 
However, this does not mean that there will be easy. Now 
locator catches body larger than five kilometers. Through

day display will be nearly continuous field melteshaschim 
colored spots. And yet a few hours will need to

maneuver in order to be eliminated from the path
most of these red spots. Here and
will this work for pilots.
From your computer will be very little use, he
just starts to lie, not coping with
surging volume of information. Pilots
will be replaced every three hours, and for
time to watch them - with him, and yet Yulla
Five people - will go to seven pots. Others too will not be 
easier. Need will continue to shoot from the debris that may 
fall on any side. And under this continuous bombardment will 
need to go to the flying midst of this chaos station to remove 
her people, then - valuable equipment, and

the extent possible, to fill the hold materials. And once again 
be hellish work for pilots to withdraw from the ship logged

Roy.

    And if the station does not prove anybody
alive, it's the same with the only difference is that with each 
corpse will need to take several samples for the gene pool - a 
bank of genetic material which is located in the orbit of the 
Red. Then same thing you had to do with all the remnant of what 
once lived, grew, ran, swam or flew, if any

will meet on the road. And met. In
the outer part of Roy came across the wreckage of
forest, grass, seabed and
even entire cities of the dead ...

    Sin remembered pictures of one of
debris. Its surface was a city. The town where he lived before 
the Holocaust. At one of the photos he had learned his Home ... 
Lost forever home. All people have lost their homes, their 
planet. Now it's Roy. 

    - Well, Yull. I will give Brin, he
after me.

    Yull nodded toward the door.

    - Come, Sin, will wait -
he said opening the door.

    - The long wait will not be - answered
Sin, the decision of the pilots good luck.

    The door closed.

    Sin was left alone with the cosmos.

    Eight hours later he wishes good luck
Brin, who will start braking.
Builders, engineers, doctors - all of whom
to work at the station, do not
notice. Breen runs the small engines
traction. Acceleration developed by them is negligible, but 
within 36 hours of work neprepyvnoy they will reduce the speed 
of the ship with sixteen kilometers per second to one. This 
speed is enough to leave even largest fragments, and not too 
high not to be able to dodge even fastest. And, from the 
beginning of the maneuvers between the fragments before docking 
with the station, All will sit strapped to a chair.

Low thrust for flight in Roe is not necessary.
High thrust engines will throw a ship from side to side, and 
walk on all the time is running out from under the feet of the 
floor will be very inconvenient. Especially in the depth Roy. 
But, thank God, flying deep into Roy soon cease. In the past, 
cruise ship Cena chasing land in the most hell automatic 
observatory. Her completely pushed into the hold and brought 
out. Now is a serious matter - the orbital station. Shin found 
a glance indicator. Beacon signal station had not yet heard. 
Far, and the wreckage of a hindrance. 

    What are people at the station. All around the wreckage. 
From large to very tiny. They move, collide, split up, 
surrounded by a raid on the power field station, and that from 
such a kick flies like a ball, until faced with other debris. 
And fear. Permanent fear of being between two colliding 
fragments, or that some small but very fast stone strikes force 
field. Then - the end. In the best If we find a barrel full of 
holes full dead. At worst - nothing. From the station, there 
will be only smoke, but still can be a crater on the surface of 
the wreckage. 

    Such stations in the depth of Roy was
just two. One has already withdrawn from this
and hell is on its way to the Red. Same
thing will happen with this. First be evacuated and taken 
valuable equipment. As soon as the ship goes out of Roy's 
plunge into it and tugs will pull out station itself ... Now 
nothing can be throw. Get to nowhere. And do

yet also impossible. Need to collect what was left.

    What is left ...

    Here's a result of intoxication with success.
Has been civilization - and now those who stayed, gather what's 
left. 

    It all began with a decision on the colonization
Blue. It has long been known that
this is the third planet from the Sun is suitable
people's lives. And implementation of these plans rested in the 
lack of fuel for transport vehicles. To business connected 
scientists, and after some time decision was found. As a result 
of their persistent Proceedings were born two devices

who made a revolution in the interplanetary
shipping. The first of these,
called a "converter", transformed
latent energy of the space in a more
easy to use form. Second,
"Gravitator, fueled by abundant energy
from the first could be up to anything
attraction force: to weaken, strengthen,
change sign, direct beam, turn into an elastic impermeable 
wall. On Based on these devices, it was decided

build a global transportation system, which, according to 
calculation, to quickly and conveniently send goods in space 
and take them out. Equally fast and convenient, these goods can 
be moved anywhere in the world. And loads considerable - tens 
and hundreds of thousands tons.


    Shin remembers landing and takeoff
his then-ship with one of the first units of the system. Once
ship was in a given sector of the orbit, it seemed to have 
picked up strong, but cautious hand. These "hands" the ship was 
lowered to the launch site directly to the reserved for him at 
the sector. Engines ship it all the time in silence. Through

a few days on the same ship with the full
loading, as well without spending a single drop
fuel was raised from the surface and placed on almost the exact 
course of the Red need for this speed.


    It was great! It was so
great that few people had heard and then
nobody will ever listened to prevent a small group of 
scientists gravisferschikov. 

    Now everyone knows that the gravity field of celestial 
bodies is difficult arranged system. At the heart of any 
gravisfery kernel is located - very difficult three-dimensional 
multilevel interlocking lines. It has the shape of 
sharopodobnogo polyhedron and the size of a little more

than the planet itself. The rest of the
gravisfery is sticking out of the nucleus in all
side of the line-tentacles. They can bend as you like, woven 
into a variety of education. On this principle of action and is 
based gravitator. Gravisfernoe same kernel - the design is 
stiff and very fragile. When operated separate units of the 
transport network, the distortion gravisfernogo nuclei were 
negligible, acceptable. But when the transport system was built 
and running on full power, the structure of the upper tier 
gravisfernogo nucleus was broken. Began to unravel. First, the 
momentum of negative gravity dropped Planet of everything that 
was in orbit. Then, as the collapse of gravisfernogo kernels 
from the Planet layer by layer steel dropped shell. And 
depriving them of Pressure planetary core exploded.


    The planet was Roy.

    The strength of the first pulse was not always
identical, and several orbiting objects have been overtaken 
expanding Roy before they had time to pick up ...


    The remaining people had no choice but to continue the 
colonization Blue. But singing is necessary to collect all

left ...

    - Return - sent the head of "celestial angels".

    So jokingly referred to the orbital
Builders for the ability to fly deftly handling a rocket pack, 
and for myself kind of job suits. Four rods with

blocks of micromotors in the position resembled outstretched in 
flight wings.


    Shin, along with other free of
Watch the pilot is in the "hallway"
before the gateway to the disposal of the biologist.
Biologist worried constantly in touch
with the laboratory, where his aides were preparing everything 
necessary for processing "trophies." Commander, as always, was 
calm. He, along with all without interrupting staring at the 
screen. Seven small figures workers in suits got together and

after a few seconds smoothly formed a human chain moved toward 
the ship. Ship "hung" two hundred meters above the dead wood on 
the surface of fragments, which discovered the watch pilot. 

    Calmly and confidently, "Angels" approached the open gate 
lock and so calmly, without any unnecessary movements, flew 
aboard the ship. A few meters to the gates of their "wings" 
folded in back.


    About two minutes later inside the gate
Gateway opened. Builders put in
complete all the trophies and heavily swaying
proceeded to ekiperovochnuyu. Even when
reduced three times the severity is difficult for
wear a business suit. As
just released a gateway, a biologist attacked the trophies. 
Bags left by the builders were full of cuts from the stem, 
twigs with needles and cones of the size of a pot-bellied fist. 
And among the bags was peeling from the hollow.


    - Look, - admired biologist showing everyone already 
frosted cone. - It's cedar pine! In gene pool, it has not. We 
first found it ... Well, here ... 

    Biologist jumped to the ridge and looked
in the hollow.

    - Honeycombs - he said good
Having examined what is there. - Honeycombs of wild bees. C
honey.

    He ran into the hollow arm.

    - Freezed all. Like a stone.

    Biologist rose, looked round
"Trophies."

    - In the lab. - Ordered a biologist.

    Sin and Yull volunteered to haul logs.
Despite the lowered arms (on the gloves, no one thought) piece 
barrel Ledenev hands. 

    - I love honey - said Yull, after they nearly dropped the 
burden of stepping in the corridor, where gravity was normal.


    - I love - Shin said. -
Only here is unlikely we will find another
hollow with the bees.

    - Nothing, nothing. Honey still will be. -
has encouraged a biologist who was walking nearby and carried
one of the bags. - The comb is probably
larval bees. And once the larvae have to be
and bees and honey.

    - If only bees can live in
Blue. - Yull said.

    - I hope they will. - Answered
biologist. - Life is adapted to such conditions as terrifying 
to contemplate. 

    - I also hope for it - said
Sin ...

    A reason for hope was a lot. K
time of the disaster on the Red were
built two domes of the city, more
dozen domed settlements, and many more stations on the surface 
and in orbit with a total population of about one million 
people. There, on the Red managed to create a several nodes of 
gravitational transport system. There were also base on the 
moon Blue and station in its orbit ... 

    And while the need to collect all that remained ...

    An hour later, Korab with evacuees
from the station people came out and took Roy
course to the Red.


                     01/10/1997 - 24/01/1997