tch in the saucer opened. The scoop pincers descended slightly, holding something?. The capsule was no message at least, not the kind [they] had anticipated. That was a bomb? (51-2). The authorities, acting as border control, followed the family's transportbubble? and tried to destroy them by dropping a bomb, and then by continuing to pursue them, eventually succeeding in forcing the refugees to crash onto the surface of a moon of Jupiter, Maraud. Luckily, the family survived the crash, but they couldn't revive their ship enough to set out again, so they trekked across the surface of Maraud, until they reached the border and the transport out. However, the ticket price to leave the moon on a transport bubble had risen so high that any refugee would have a hard time paying for one ticket, much less for an entire family's tickets.
             Even worse than the political persecution, the boat people also had to deal with pirate attacks: Young women were sometimes abducted. Some were taken to Kra Island?, where they were hunted and assaulted by pirates?.Thai pirates regularly began to attack and rob refugee boats, often raping and killing the occupants? (?Vietnamese Boatpeople Connection?). The Hubris family's transport bubble was not able to keep other ships from docking with them, and because of that they could not keep pirates fr
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