Chapter 2Jude slept very poorly on account of worrying about their upcoming crash landing. By the time they approached the tundra planet, he was ready to get it over with.
“Buckle up,” said Cal, who’d endured a similarly lousy night’s sleep, if the dark spots under his eyes were anything to go by.
Jude looked at his console with its prospecting data. “The silver lining to all of this is, the planet looks promising for metals.”
“You’ll forgive me if I’m more concerned with surviving the descent.”
So was Jude, but he had absolutely no control over that, so he took orbital scans because it beat sitting there doing nothing except hoping to live. The computer noted a good amount of metal in the equatorial regions. Most of the planet was covered in too much ice to get any useful data from or
