" Why?"I whispered in Dad's ear, "I have a lot of gold."Dad whispered back, "I won't ask where or how you got it, but people will kill for that." They...ll do that for the metal and to stop me helping people." You take care of yourself and your family." I try Dad, I try very hard."Old school friends showing up would never have bothered me before but I figured it was too odd to happen now. It may be a government agency of some country or somebody that wants to get in on the gold I seemed to have. We believe we have stumbled onto a way to give us better lateral control on the spacecraft than the Ion/H2 engines. The Hypersonic engines are not air breathers. They are much more powerful and efficient than the H2 engines. The design capabilities are endless, and they can even be swiveled to back you up.’ ‘Where would they be stored Richard?’ ‘On initial takeoff they would be rolled up inside the ship. Once you are in zero gravity, they would come out both sides of the spacecraft, deploy like. (with all girl casts even.) But anyway, I accompanied Willow to the briefing. The news was that first company had tried to set up a base camp on the far side of the continent from the Sa'arm. This was some two thousand miles away; and far out of range of any weapon we knew about, or at least that's what I understood. However, the commander hadn't counted on the Sa'arm deciding to march across the continent to attack them.The company rushed to their tanks. Willow and Erica were talking about. I know you enough it won’t matter. My ‘sisters’ have recommended you. May I please?’ ‘Ok. No promises though.’ She brought out two beers, I figured I could at least start with her. We drank several cans without saying much. ‘What do you do for work Bonnie?’ I really did want to know more about her. The outside was nice, really nice. But it’s the inner person, the personality that’s really important. ‘I’m a substitute teacher, math, English and Phys Ed. I took the semester off.’ ‘I thought you.