The Plot Against Pandora
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I was there when they crossed the last current off the ocean maps.
I was there when a soldier poured my coffee black without asking how I took it, and I signed anyway.
I was there when they weighed our lives in grams and allowed us one keepsake of Earth each.
I was there when twelve of us landed on a shore the People call dead, and started being kind.
I was there when their children came to our party, and everyone in the photographs is smiling.
I was there the night the shore burned.
And I was there at the end, when they finally told me what I was for.Cora Delaney knew Earth had ten billion people and one generation left to save them. That was why she signed. She did not know the rest. When the RDA returned to Pandora for its ore and its immortality oil, something smaller rode under diplomatic seal. Sent to a distant shore to be good neighbors. They pay for what they take. They keep their word. Ask them anything, and no one will lie to you. That is not the same as the truth.
Jake Sully carried his family to the edge of the world to get them out of the war. The edge of the world is where everything was always going to meet.
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- Part 1 of The Plot Against Pandora