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“Our launch window is clear.
I see their home world properly now: the cream-white clouds and the verdant algal mats. Equatorial convective cells invoke fluorescent upwellings the size of mountains, mixing nutrients into sun-warm waters. I witness the glow of cities: light reflected between underwater habitats constructed from colored ceramic and the gentlest spun glass. I can almost hear the echo of an endless tide; almost smell the scent of earthly salt borne from an alien sea.
We treasure this final moment, as I place my shaking, blood-pierced fingers on the glass surface of the observation blister. Soon, perhaps our memory of this planet will be all that remains.
The mission recorder clicks on.
“…and so we have chosen to fulfill our final duty. A world for a world; a home for a home.”
“In humanity's memory, we shall grace their world with rain.”
- [UNSIGNED], EXECUTIVE AUDITOR, TRS NOVEMBER RAIN, AD. 2242, DECEMBER 13th, PERSONAL JOURNAL//VOICE DICTATION
>LAUNCH AUTHORIZATION/CONSENT – MSL-AM. This is the only option left.
