Silent Thinking

"You!" Latoya exclaimed in shocked surprise, "You're supposed to be DEAD in SPACE somewhere!"

"Durn! Feel the love!" Marcus teased her acting like she had stabbed him in his heart, "And that whole dead in space deal was set up to look like that so folks wouldn't follow our trail and find Vicinus. Because we know that as soon as ANY one of the countries here on earth found out that we had a way to safely travel faster thatn light they would all be trying to bribe, blackmail, or any other method they could come up with to force us to give the colony and all of our people to them and to serve in whatever capacity they might have use for."