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- The next conversation took another hour and added a few dozen more words to the vocabulary.
- Eridians invented space travel quite a while ago. And with their unparalleled materials technology (xenonite) they actually made a space elevator. Basically a cable leading from Erid’s equator up to the synchronous orbit with a counterweight. They literally take elevators to get into orbit. We could do that on Earth if we knew how to make xenonite.
- Thing is, they never left orbit. There was no reason to. Erid has no moon. Planets that close to a star rarely do. The gravitation tidal forces tend to rip would-be moons out of orbit. Rocky and his crew were the first Eridians to leave orbit at all.
- So they never found out that Erid’s magnetic field, which extends well beyond its synchronous orbit, had been protecting them all that time.
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- Chapter 14
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