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Pressure Point

a story in the HX series

by Roger Bourke White Jr., started Feb 2007

What happens when space explorers find something incredibly new, and incredibly valueable to mankind? Not valuable in some namby-pamby, "Oh this will help humanity so much!"-way, but valuable in the, "I'm willing to pay a King's Ransom for that!"-way.

Read on and find out about Rubyzin....

Characters Useful facts for this story

Frank Manly -- pilot, narrator

John Korliss -- propulsion engineer

Jack Cracker -- navigator/"weather" expert

Ned Hansley -- science officer

Jason Fillhorn -- the team member who stayed on Titan

Dr. Langhorn and Jabe Kalanov -- Investors on Titan

8 AU is about 1 light-hour

Saturn's orbit (Titan) 10AU

Neptune's orbit 30AU

at the time of this story there are human colonies of a hundred thousand or more on Moon, Mars, Mercury and Titan

mankind travels through space using constant acceleration propulsion, and does not have FTL capability

about a hundred years ealier, a large remnant of an alien civilization (The HX) was discovered in the solar system: The Honeycomb Comet

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