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Top Gun mind to outer space in this throwback to the basic science fiction of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. Strapped directly into manufactured wings spanning 25 legs across, your hands force a tenth of your weight with each pump as you propel yourself at frightening speeds through the air. Inside a pressurized dome on the Moon, subject to one-sixth Earth's gravity, there are swarms of chiseled, fearless, superbly trained flyers all around you, jostling for air space like peregrine falcons race for the reward. This was the activity of piloting, and after Helium-3, piloting was main things that entered anyone's brain when Borealis was stated. It was Helium-3 that driven humanity's far-flung civilization enlargement, nourishing fusion reactors from the Alliances on the planet to the Terran Wedding ring, Mars, the Jovian colonies, and completely out to distant Titan. The source, taken from the surface of the Moon, acquired once seemed unlimited. But that was long ago. Borealis, the glittering, fabulously abundant city stretched out across the lunar North Pole, acquired amassed generations of unimaginable wealth harvesting it, and as such was the first to realize that its products were running away. The distant recollections of the horrific planetwide devastation spawned by the petroleum wars weren't enough to quell the increasing energy and political crises. A fresh battle to rival no other appeared imminent, but the solar system's rivalling power would discover something more powerful than Helium-3: the indomitable spirit of Earth-born, war-weary mercenary and pilot extraordinaire.
