First Power Play [antikvár]

Malik Ferdenko crouched in the black shadow, watching the light towers glitter-ing like jewels before him on the plain be-low. According to the latest Asteroid Almanac, the small asteroid was supposed to be uninhabited. The lights, and the space-suited men scurrying to and fro between them, shouldn't have been there. It should have been a barren bit of rock whirling dark and un-touched through the void, not a beehive of activity.Malik smiled to himself as he watched the men rushing about before him like fireflies against the as-teroid's dark surface. Such anomalies were Malik's livelihood. As an industrial spy, he'd spent most of his life prowling the wild anarchy of the Asteroid Beit, where almost anything could be found if one