A HOLO OF THE SITE of the Assembly hung in midair in the living quarters.
“I didn’t know it would be a space station,” said Cherry. “I thought we were going to a planet.”
Wilder had made the same mistake. She gawped at the image. What a space station it was! Massive, foreboding, and almost black, it was a dark shadow against the stars. A long, gigantic cylinder extended down from the central hub, and five arms protruded from the same spot, each supporting a solid block hundreds of meters high and wide. The hub itself had to be two kilometers in diameter and the same depth.
Wilder’s estimations were vague, based on size comparisons with the ships that were entering and leaving the station. If the starships were bigger than she guessed, the station could easily be double the size.
“It wa
