Grinding on the next bit, where we get into the nitty-gritty of the evacuation. Until that's done, have three paragraphs from near the end.
Pluto. End of the line, last station for homo sapiens and related clades. All passengers must disembark and transfer to their designated escape craft. Everybody prepare to run like a motherfucker, because the Rapture is a-coming.
There were only a handful of us left, mostly the immortals and demi-mortals from the very beginning of Fenspace; ghosts, AIs and the odd lucky biomod. We'd gathered on that lonely scrap of ice at the edge of the solar system to cap off the evacuation. We didn't really need to be there; all points inward from Pluto had been safely evac'd, the handful of recalcitrants had either seen the light and fled or seen the Light and joined the Rapture. Pluto itself was going to be abandoned. There was no rational purpose in staying any longer than we had to.
But, as so many people like to point out, fen are not always rational. There was a feeling of finality in the air. Once we left, there wouldn't be a single human, human-equivalent or parahuman left in the solar system. This was it. Tomorrow, we would dust off for Alpha Centauri or Epsilon Indi or Beta Coma and Sol would belong to the posthumans.
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Mr. Fnord
http://fnord.sandwich.net/
http://www.jihad.net/
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"
Pluto. End of the line, last station for homo sapiens and related clades. All passengers must disembark and transfer to their designated escape craft. Everybody prepare to run like a motherfucker, because the Rapture is a-coming.
There were only a handful of us left, mostly the immortals and demi-mortals from the very beginning of Fenspace; ghosts, AIs and the odd lucky biomod. We'd gathered on that lonely scrap of ice at the edge of the solar system to cap off the evacuation. We didn't really need to be there; all points inward from Pluto had been safely evac'd, the handful of recalcitrants had either seen the light and fled or seen the Light and joined the Rapture. Pluto itself was going to be abandoned. There was no rational purpose in staying any longer than we had to.
But, as so many people like to point out, fen are not always rational. There was a feeling of finality in the air. Once we left, there wouldn't be a single human, human-equivalent or parahuman left in the solar system. This was it. Tomorrow, we would dust off for Alpha Centauri or Epsilon Indi or Beta Coma and Sol would belong to the posthumans.
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Mr. Fnord
http://fnord.sandwich.net/
http://www.jihad.net/
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information
"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"