"R. Garcia Y Robertson - Oxygen Rising" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robertson R Garcia Y)

he have?

"Good." Tammy pressed UNMUTE. "So, have you guessed what project Mjollnir is about?"

"Pender wants you to smash this asteroid into Harmonia, killing as many Greenies as you can." Why else
rendezvous with a useless rock far away from anywhere?

"Right." Tammy nodded grimly. "Thor's hammer, smashing our enemies to bits."

"But even if you could anchor this Skylark to the rock, you could never get past Eclipse." An armed
merchant cruiser carried special landing teams trained to liberate hijacked ships, and root out slaver
bases.

Tammy shook her head. "There is no need to get past Eclipse. Buried in the rock is a high-g tug, the
Atlas, originally used to tow ice comets for terraforming, but hidden here ever since. Once the tug has
been programmed, the Skylark will take off, drawing the Eclipse into deep space."

Derek had to admit that it would probably work. Cassandra was a dense stony-iron asteroid, perfect for
hiding the powered-down tug. With the Skylark speeding away, Eclipse would continue the chase, telling
the Greenies to check out Cassandra. By the time low-g Greenie ships arrived, the asteroid would be
accelerating downsun and impossible to stop. Cassandra striking at high acceleration would almost split
Harmony in half, destroying every structure, and blowing a huge hole in the thin atmosphere blanketing
the world in dust and ash. Only algae would survive. He bitterly told Tammy, "I believed you, when you
told that jury that they could stop the killing."

"I absolutely meant that," Tammy insisted.

"Then how can you be doing this?" Derek demanded.

"I am trying to stop it," Tammy protested, looking like she thought it should have been obvious. "That's
why I need you. All I have is a Humanities PhD, and I know absolutely nothing about piloting a high-g
tug."

"So you want me to?" Derek could hardly believe what he was hearing. "Dragging a runaway asteroid
behind usтАж"

"To keep it from hitting Harmonia," Tammy reminded him. "And maybe save your Greenie girlfriend."

Mia was undoubtedly dirtside by now, but that just made it all the worse. "How could you not tell me?"
he demanded. "How could you have let things get this far?"

"I had to be first to get here," Tammy told him primly. 'Tender sent back-up messages in case mine didn't
get through. And if I'd told you my plans, you wouldn't have helped."

No lie. He stared in exasperation at the Earthwoman, aghast at what she had done. "Why not just turn
them in?"

"And give the Greenies one more victory to gloat over?" Tammy looked disgusted. "Too many women
and kids died from their 'precision' bombing for me to do that. This is something that humans had to do.
If Greenies could do it, we wouldn't be having this talk."