Shepherd Moon, 2nd Edition

Part Three

Part Three

Part Three

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Picking Up The Pieces

In a future Earth, where the long-dreaded nuclear war had come and gone and they had started to rebuild again, humans learned to face the consequences of their first space battle in over two decades.

- from "Four Quartets" by T.S. Elliot, Earth poet and playwright,

20th Century Earth

"Insufficient data to achieve ninety percent accuracy.

Most probable combination indicates that targets will rendezvous with planet Earth after imminent battle engagement."

- EDS 361 Base Computer - Triton Center Seventeen, Year 2300