[Picture from 50s or 60s illustrated book, woodcut look, of a family on a
porch with animals]

Ray watched Ashanta work while she tried to decide who to tell, if anyone.

Her father couldn't be less interested in politics -- he'd be hiding in the
astrophysics lab, and getting him to pay attention to meals was hard enough,
and her mother would tell her to let it go since it wasn't her problem.

So if the ESA was going to call this an attack, who would they be sending?
Or would they be writing of the colony as a failed experiment, and leaving
them to their own best ability to survive?

As cold and distant as they were, they were the link to Earth and supplies.

Ray went back to trolling through the Cascadian network. So strange to be
able to type anything for a search and have it come back uncensored.