Miranda and the Space Pirates or How Haven Rock Was Saved
By Mike Combs
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This is the adventure-filled story of a family which decides to homestead in the asteroid belt.
The Anderson clan already live in a space habitat in high Earth orbit. But being discontent with social conditions there, they decide to purchase a mass-driver propelled space craft and head out to the asteroid belt to become one of the first families to homestead there.
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Miranda and the Space Pirates or How Haven Rock Was Saved - Mike Combs
Miranda and the Space Pirates
or
How Haven Rock Was Saved
by Mike Combs
mikecombs@aol.com
Copyright © 1997
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To the real Miranda. May your life be as rich in adventure as your fictional counterpart.
But most importantly, may your future be as unbounded in opportunity as hers.
* * *
November 15th, 2096: Daddy's as mad as I think I've ever seen him.
He's gotten himself that way watching the news on TV about the Cosmic Children Cult. We try to be open to people of different religions here in New Brazil (we're one of the older habitats in the standard High Earth Orbit about halfway between the Earth and Lunar Orbit). The Cosmic Children were immigrants from Earth who told us they were facing persecution there. We opened our doors to them, and tried to benignly ignore the nuttier parts of their religion.
Then it turned out one of the tenets of their religion was adult-child sex. Practically every member of the group was now up on child molestation charges. Daddy's been trying to shield me from this a bit because he doesn't think his daughter knows anything about sex, much less pedophillia. But I'm not just a stupid kid anymore.
But it wasn't just the cultists which had Daddy riled. It was the spokesperson for the Ethical Fairness Authority on television telling us all we can't judge the Cosmic Children by our standards of ethics. He said the cultists had their own standard of ethics which they lived by, and which we had to respect. I thought it was a pretty sure bet he didn't have a young daughter living in New Brazil.
But Daddy did, so he saw things differently than the EFA. He hated the Ethical Fairness Authority because despite the fact ethical
is in their title, they don't believe in absolute ethics. They say concepts of morality differ from society to society, from habitat to habitat, and although they don't attempt to impose any kind of arbitrary system of ethics
on anyone, still insist that all ethical systems have a component of fairness
to them. I notice fair
pretty much seems to match up with whatever they happen to think is right. They call themselves ethical relativists
, but Daddy calls them reprobates
.
You have to understand, Daddy and Momma are very religious, and belong to one of the older religions which began back on Earth before the Breakout into space. Now the EFA was starting to meddle around in our church, and this had Daddy up in arms. The EFA was setting up an advisory board
for our Sunday schools. Seems there were some things about our classes which had them bugged.
For example, they noted that Jesus had these thirteen disciples, but none of them were women. To them, this was sexism on Jesus' part. Then they went on about how the New Testament treated the handicapped as people who needed to be healed by Jesus right away, instead of vital citizens with a valid contribution to make to society
. But they were even more down on the Old Testament. They considered some of the passages about the Jews being God's chosen people, and the admonitions to destroy the enemy down to the women, children, and cattle, as blatant racism with advocacy of genocide
. I thought this was silly because nobody in our church was even Jewish as far as I knew, and we considered Jesus' gift of salvation to be available to all