That was new. I blushed slightly, even as Jason – Private Mandalla now – kicked over to me. “Off the record, you’re one cool dudette. Now, why weren’t you born a man so I could date you?”
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“Because,” I said, grinning. “God has a sense of taste.” [/FONT]
Basically, Luna did all the heavy fuel mining. They tore up huge, rich, easily accessed deuterium, which was fed into the hungry fusion reactors that powered the Earth. They also sent down lots of stuff made from Lunar dust, cause that stuff – when melted and forged right – made some really interesting materials.
Basically, Luna did all the heavy fuel mining, and it sucked for them. Lunar regolith isn’t the richest site for Deuterium, but it was the closest and best we had. That’s why Shi-Armstrong is so much bigger than people originally thought it would be, they needed more bodies to churn through the Lunar dust and grit to make fuel for new fusion reactors that popped up across the Earth as we slid out of the Slump. The Loonies claim that their early founding was no better than a slave camp for political dissidents. I half believe them, but it’s hard to care with Paris a smoking crater.
How are CMRH revisions going?