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No use even to try to communicate over any distance with the worn-out radio transmitters. The nuclear batteries were ninety-percent used up, which still left considerable time fortunately, because they had to add battery power to the normally sun-energized shoulder-ionics, in order to get any reasonable decelerating effect out of them.
Drawing power for their shoulder-ionics from their almost spent nuclear batteries, they glided toward the cluster, and got into its midst, doubling themselves up to look as much like the other chunks as possible. They were like hiding rats for hours, until long after the distant specks moved past.
"We'll check everything see how bad off they left us," Nelsen said. So that was what they did, after they had set their decrepit shoulder-ionics to slow them down in the direction of the Belt.
So it's almost worthless, everywhere. Not much use as an industrial metal. But the osmium and uranium alloyed with it are something else. One hunk for each of our nets. Too bad there isn't more." The uranium was driving their radiation-counters wild. "Could we drag it, if there was more?" Ramos growled. "With just sun-power on these lousy shoulder-ionics?" Everything was going sour, even Ramos.
Gimp Hines and David Lester were waiting inside the stellene reception dome when Nelsen and Ramos landed lightly at the port on their own feet, with no more braking assistance than their own shoulder-ionics. Greetings were curiously breathless yet casual, but without any backslapping. "We'd about given you two up," Gimp said.
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