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Lunar Apprentice Jones (Pt 1) The Orphan
Lunar Apprentice Jones (Pt 1) The Orphan
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Lunar colonization by post-apocalyptic orphaned teen-age apprentices. A coming of age story. Bill saves his part-time busboy wages to make application for employment right after graduation from high school with TLC (The Lunar Corporation).
Hot on his heels is Guardsman Spc Stigliano who will deliver Bill to the New Order teenage draft if he stays on Earth. Bill makes friends (and enemies) with other applicants on the way to the spaceport.
When Bill's flight is overbooked 'Rupert The Rat' swindles Bill for his ticket to the aging ES1 (Earth Station 1) satellite, but Bill finagles a ride with a UPS mail shuttle. Prior to the flight, TLA (The Lunar Autonomy) police arrest, try, and convict Rupert and Bill receives a refund on his ticket price in addition to the free UPS ride.
He arrives on ES1 a day early and because The Sapporo and Grand hotels are both full Bill saves himself from a vagrancy arrest by working all night as a busboy at Molly's Diner. Bill foregoes a TLC interview and takes a job with Lyle Chandler as apprentice/personal assistant and the work at hand is the contest, the BIG contest: The Enclosure Act prize, an engineering project to seal up large craters for habitation.
Bill discovers Chandler (1) had been original part owner of TLC and (2) had been the recruiter who years ago in junior high had interested Bill in Lunar employment! Chandler and Bill get fitted for new vacuum suits at Madam Chang's, spend the night at Yoshi and Walter's wall-module Sapporo Hotel, meets Chandler's hermit-like partner Randy-the-robot-maker, and take the Shuttle to Luna.
Bill sees Copernicus City from orbit before landing, then accompanies Chandler and other passengers to a traditional "safe-arrival drink" at Harolds. Chandler is accosted by his former partner who demands a concession from Chandler.
Bill meets the love of his life, the red-headed Matilda, who joins Chandler. Molly takes a leave of absence from her orbital job and also joins the crew.
Spoiler alert: the rest you will have to read.
Hot on his heels is Guardsman Spc Stigliano who will deliver Bill to the New Order teenage draft if he stays on Earth. Bill makes friends (and enemies) with other applicants on the way to the spaceport.
When Bill's flight is overbooked 'Rupert The Rat' swindles Bill for his ticket to the aging ES1 (Earth Station 1) satellite, but Bill finagles a ride with a UPS mail shuttle. Prior to the flight, TLA (The Lunar Autonomy) police arrest, try, and convict Rupert and Bill receives a refund on his ticket price in addition to the free UPS ride.
He arrives on ES1 a day early and because The Sapporo and Grand hotels are both full Bill saves himself from a vagrancy arrest by working all night as a busboy at Molly's Diner. Bill foregoes a TLC interview and takes a job with Lyle Chandler as apprentice/personal assistant and the work at hand is the contest, the BIG contest: The Enclosure Act prize, an engineering project to seal up large craters for habitation.
Bill discovers Chandler (1) had been original part owner of TLC and (2) had been the recruiter who years ago in junior high had interested Bill in Lunar employment! Chandler and Bill get fitted for new vacuum suits at Madam Chang's, spend the night at Yoshi and Walter's wall-module Sapporo Hotel, meets Chandler's hermit-like partner Randy-the-robot-maker, and take the Shuttle to Luna.
Bill sees Copernicus City from orbit before landing, then accompanies Chandler and other passengers to a traditional "safe-arrival drink" at Harolds. Chandler is accosted by his former partner who demands a concession from Chandler.
Bill meets the love of his life, the red-headed Matilda, who joins Chandler. Molly takes a leave of absence from her orbital job and also joins the crew.
Spoiler alert: the rest you will have to read.
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