Chapter Thirty-Nine
A few years later another Imperial Messenger
arrived on Hades with orders for Morn. Even with the strict birth
controls and steady expansion of The Empire, the Horne World of Haven
was again dangerously overcrowded. A new world had been discovered in
Morn's sector that with minimal life support would sustain a major
colony.
2 So The Lord God was ordering that a fourth of Haven's people and
everything they needed to sustain them until they could build their own
cities was to be sent to the world. "The people will live in passenger
pods and their industry will be set up in cargo pods. The Empire is
already acquiring the necessary pods from private haulers," the
Imperial Agent commented. "Every ship available is to be assigned to
this task. The Lord God wants it completed in one year!"
3 "I understand," said Morn. "General North will handle the ship
assignments and we will send crews to prepare suitable landing sites.
4 "By the way," remarked the Imperial Messenger, "all those being
removed from Haven will be Purists, if you understand my meaning. Don't
make things too easy for them. Let them work at it!"
5 Morn smiled. As usual his father was attacking two problems at one
time. Shipping the Purists out to this lonely colony would certainly
limit their influence. Morn didn't doubt that others of his father's
enemies would find themselves in this new colony also.
6 But this was a tremendous task, even for The Empire. And every sector
had to reorganize, schedule, and reroute supplies, to get everything
needed for the tremendous migration. But within three months North had
a total outline of what was corning, had selected suitable landing
sites, and laid out the patterns in which the landing pods would be sat
down.
7 The work of leveling the sites, constructing the