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I REMEMBERED weightlessness.
In my youth I had travelled along the natural anpar lines in huge, Earth-built space liners, massive vessels which were even then close to a hundred years old. Some of them were still in operation, since Earth ships could not use the Exchange, and the reach of Earth’s colonisation effort was extremely limited as a result.
There was one natural anpar line which Earth people used in getting from Saturn’s orbit to Midway Space Station, then another one to Taurus. Each time, those trips involved covering fairly major distances to get to the anpar entry point, a journey of many months, which was why the ship had to be so large.
As long as the ship accelerated or decelerated, there was a measure of gravity. Cabins were designed so that one could live on the cei
