Earth's Trojans

 Hi All,

In any one year Earth travels a distance of 584 million miles around the sun, but also trailing and leading (in front/behind) in this orbit  are several thousand space stations, habitats, industrial facilities and 'space trailer parks' and mined out  meteoroids, clustered together into estates and which have been converted into middle class semis and detached houses . In addition to these man-made objects are Trojan asteroids,  of those populated 12  are leading and 17 trailing, mined for their ice, gas and metal. These are so called because they were first discovered in Jupiter's orbit, wherein scholars names them Trojans and Greeks, after the ancient Trojan Wars. Every planet has a couple of Trojans, but Jupiter has so many because of her sheer size, but Earth's orbit was home to 33 billion Humans and Szsorg and a tiny percentage of extra -terrestrial aliens. 

Earth Trojan 312 is a smallish Earth Trojan Asteroid about the size of Rutland. It's new owners were quite obsessive about exploring this seemingly boring lump of rock. It look six weeks, but a  small  limpet class industrial station was able  attach itself to the rock to do a deep level scan of what was underneath. The scans showed something remarkable : after 1 and a  half a mile of rock , the interior was hollow. Precision tools drilled into the rock finally getting through to the other end, they'd made a gap big enough to put a ruler through width ways. This was just enough to put a portal through the crack, which enabled the team to send through a series of probes and drones. What they discovered was quite remarkable.,..