Tom Purdom - Moon Rocks

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ANALOG APRIL 1973

MOON ROCKS

Tom Purdom

If hell can be defined as the loss of everything you've hoped for,

then even the courtliest, most civilized kind of war is hell!

The rocks have been lying on the Moon for two and a half billion years.

Twenty-five million centuries before Joseph Davino was born, a small asteroid

scraped the lower slopes of the lunar Apennines and smashed into the southern edge

of Mare Imbrium. Rocks and boulders flew across the surface of the Moon and sat

there in perfect, undisturbed silence until a machine rolled across the dusty

landscape and flashed a message at its controllers on Earth. Rocks of high-grade

gold ore are lying on the surface of Mare Imbrium near the border of the region

dominated by the European Economic Community. There are no tracks within five

kilometers of the site. No one in the E.E.C. knows the ore is there.

"You'll be inside their radar range a hundred kilometers before you reach the site,"

Colonel LeFarge says. "You'll have to pick your way through the foothills until

you're almost on top of it. You'll have a double supply of consumables and I'll have

Wild Bill take a supply caravan out and pick you up at Base Six. I thought about

sending out a diversion but I decided you'd have a better chance if we set things up

so you could take your time in the foothills."

Major Joseph Davino is a pleasant, cosmopolitan man who still feels warm and

nostalgic when he thinks about the books about space travel he read when he was a

child—books in which it was generally agreed that no one would ever fight wars

over gold mines on other planets. His three-year tour of duty will be up in four

months and he already knows Washington is planning to follow the normal program

and replace him with a new volunteer. His work on the Moon has been competent

but undistinguished and he has one black mark on his record: he let an enemy

combat team slip past a perimeter he was guarding and they managed to pick up six

hundred pounds of unrefined gold ore and cripple a million dollars worth of

high-grade equipment. Colonel LeFarge is handing him a difficult, nerve-wracking

job but they both know the colonel is giving him a break, too. The automated

exploration vehicle has stumbled on a strike that looks like it may be one of the

biggest finds in the history of lunar exploration. If he can sneak into the E.E.C.'s turf

and snatch it away from them under their noses, the computer jockeys in the

Pentagon will probably listen to the colonel's recommendation and give him the only

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