The warcats will have to be deep in the solar system before her asteroid mine can be a deterrent.

The deals with the industrial moons and the asteroid mines look solid.

"An' here I thought you learned to fly starships at the asteroid mines luik I did."

The asteroid mines were another ancient remnant of the Terran race, once worked by slaves her people had gathered from across the galaxy.

Cargoes have been launched across the system, but not targeted at asteroid mines, not these mines.

Even in the asteroid mines of most systems, humans would align their furniture.

He spoke of marvelous dreams, of asteroid mines, of towers that would take loot from world to beyond orbit.

And that required fax machines and elements from the asteroid mines, both of which were in decidedly short supply.

In a way, a part of him wished it wasn't so: that this had been a simple story of asteroid mines and O'Neill colonies and homesteads in space, that the extraordinary future hadn't intruded.

Hesban now sat in a tiny, rock-walled office deep in the gullet of an asteroid mine, ready to be recalled if things ever got too bad.