
"Low Energy Economy" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
LeVar Burton Reads
00:00
A Mining Pod Is a Dysfunctional Affair, but It's Not in the Budget
Tobler tries self repair it. Has no pulse diagnostics. Gives up the ghost work arounds. He hacks into the mess of soft ware, all the previous patches and changes and fixes he's made to keep the pod running while it dyed on its mechanical arse. The army of red lights descends on him and holds him at gun point. Nothing he does helps. So many things aren't working that he has no way of knowing if it's on or not. There's a little meter on his display which tells him how much he has in reserve, energy wise, and it only goes down. And now there's no way to make it go back up because every
Transcript
Play full episode