“Including the British Embassy guy we quizzed in Bangkok, who’d been told not to take any holidays. He said orders to arrest us had come right from the top,” Chartreuse interrupted.
“Yeah, you’re on the right track there. I’ve been studying the spacecraft you filmed on Koh Surin. It’s specifically built to optimize the Hohman Transfer.”
“Hohman what?” Chartreuse asked.
“The Hohman Transfer, that’s the way a spacecraft gets close enough to a space station to be able to dock. A space station that moves at twenty thousand miles an hour in orbit around Earth. The craft you filmed is built for this and only this. They are outer space delivery vans. Utility vehicles of the most basic kind, designed to commute back and forth between earth and a space station.”
Clara nodded into her glass of w
