OrbDeb is a term that refers to 'Orbital Debris'.
OrbDebs litter the atmosphere and outer spans of Eros, too insignificant to bother with, but dangerous enough to prove troublesome.
Picture a Titan-Class-XE155, priming to trek through the outermost reaches, only to suck in the discarded skeleton of a 612-RekRakShuttle through its atmo-intakes.
Instant ignition, irreparable damage, crew-loss of 28%.
OrbDeb is lethal filth, toxic rubbish.
Murderous trash.
OrbDeb also happens to be exactly what Echo Telvanni and her crew called Argus when she found him lying face down and legally dead in the club's to-be-launched refuse zone.
And so the story began.
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love the narrowing depth of field here - you start with an intriguing, impersonal encyclopedic description and it slowly funnels into something with character and plot and makes us as readers care and want to know more. (which by the way means, i want to know more.)
ReplyDeleteand there's nothing quite as tempting as ending with 'so the story began' :P