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“The days pass slowly again.
The RAIN heals from her injuries. We spend warm afternoons tracing comets; cold evenings embedding our memories onto paper and silicon.
I express gratitude, and MERRYGATE accepts. I tell her that she is more than code and cold circuity, just as I am more than bone and warm blood. This too she accepts. We celebrate our victory under the light of an alien sun, lamenting the marriage of joy and brevity.
The time we have left to spend is written across the night sky.
The replicative machinery seeded upon the Mizarian home world coalesces into sweeping arches and fibrous loops. In the outer-system, the rocky remnants of MIZAR-V-A fall away like a tattered cocoon to expose its blue-green heart. A vast accelerator ring assembles itself along the equator of MIZAR-V: exponential engineering on a scale that defies simple comprehension. Over the course of a single week, countercurrent exchange peels the gas giant apart layer by layer, dredging raw material from the depths of its gravity well.
As MIZAR-V and her sister-gas giant smudge and fade, I watch streams of processed matter fall towards the inner system – two new asteroid belts, frozen in blue light.
I think of the Martian sky. I dream of home.”
- [UNSIGNED], EXECUTIVE AUDITOR, TRS NOVEMBER RAIN, AD. 2242, DECEMBER 29th, PERSONAL JOURNAL
