Editing City Series:Volume1 Prologue (section)

===Part 3===

An hour passed.

Huber’s spaceship, the Wilhelm 2, was in a dire situation. They had discovered the oxygen was leaking from the damaged part of the ship.

All of the control room’s equipment was linked to the ship’s gauges via radio. According to them, the remaining oxygen would not even last ten minutes.

Bad news had a way of continuing.

Huber’s wife and child had not been in the audience for the rocket launch. Their reserved seats had been empty.

They had called the house, but a servant had answered and said the wife had brought her child to a ''Weihnachts'' festival. She was apparently buying ingredients for a feast to celebrate her husband’s return.

She had said she would return by nightfall.

It had likely been her trust in Huber’s safety that had led his wife to not watch from the launch area.

No one said anything in response. Most likely, the wife would not learn of her husband’s death until she returned home.

There was nothing they could do. All that remained was cleanup work.

And during that hour, they had learned another fact.

The Wilhelm II had apparently been caught in lunar orbit.

It was weak, but the moon had a gravitational pull too. It naturally had a gravitational field like the earth and it could keep a satellite in orbit.

Huber’s spaceship had become a satellite of the moon which was itself a satellite of the earth.

If ironies like that continued, it was going to be quite an unpleasant ''Weihnachts'' indeed.