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A century ago, our AI benefactor, Moses, disappeared, taking mankind's future with him. The dream of the stars is dead. Earth is silent and the colonies of the solar syst...
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Oh, I most certainly blame the Americans. No doubt they all watched too many John Wayne movies in those days. What, you don't know who he is? Famous actor from a couple centuries back. Cinema history buffs can tell you all about him. Just look him up. You'll see what I mean.
The Americans got here first. To Mars that is. Their infrastructure was already well developed, so Moses was able to get them out the door quickly, so to speak. They set up their first colony on Mars, took one look outside, thought it looked familiar, and named their little colony Arizona and the city Flagstaff.
I don't know if the cowboy hats were a joke at first or serious, but the things spread like a disease to all the other colonies when we got here.
Next thing you know we were all living in a John Wayne movie under a benevolent AI overlord.
The future is a most peculiar place, indeed.
Edmund Hughes Second Commander of Her Majesty's Martian Colony, Churchill
Died 2 AM
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For Matthew Cole, there were a couple of downsides to a twenty-five dollar payout. First, it meant he was eating freeze-dried nutrient rations for the foreseeable future. The hold of the Sparrow had a locker crammed full of the nearly inedible bars. He'd purchased them years ago for lean seasons, and now certainly qualified. He peeled back the wrapper from the unappealing bar and took a bite. The complete lack of flavor wasn't quite as bad as the dense, gritty texture. Matthew always had the impression that he was eating a block of dried mud.
