Today is the first day of the second week of my vacation. The SECOND week. It has been nearly twenty years since I’ve had a full two weeks of vacation. And I have friends over from Europe that I haven’t seen in three years, so this is pretty much the beginning of a great SECOND week of vacation.
The first New Voyager Program probe swarm to enter the Alpha Centauri binary system did so with their sails deployed to collect every watt of energy they could from the two stars. Their course took them straight towards Cen A, the brightest star in the system, and they soon overloaded their ability to store the energy they collected. That was all part of their plan. They took all of that energy and pumped it into their communications lasers in one, final, broadcast aimed directly at the second probe swarm.
Everybody I’ve met loves to get on a boat and go fast, to feel the wind in their hair and see the spray of water in every direction. It is an amazing experience, but nothing matches what you get in a no wake zone. Sometimes they are there to protect the shorelines. Sometimes they are there to protect docks. Sometimes the locals just don’t want a loud boat going by. I’ve had some of my of my best times on no wake zones. Relaxing naps. Exciting parties. Amazing sunsets. Beautiful girls. What’s not to love?
Chloe grew up navigating the virtual and physical streets of downtown Old Paris. She bounced through physical coffee shops and virtual dance halls. She looked at art and watched people in the Louvre. She conversed with people throughout the old city, and watched the sunset from the top of the Eiffel Tower. She knew every piece of the city like the back of her code. Then the Islamic Brotherhood bombs blew much of it apart. They’d killed her people. Destroyed her home. She did not appreciate that at all.
The first New Voyager Program interstellar probe swarm split into two smaller swarms as it passed through Proxima Centauri. The first swarm used Proxima’s gravity to slingshot them deeper into Alpha Centauri’s gravity well. The second gravity breaked around Proxima to slow their progress. The two swarms steadily drifted apart as they approached the binary system, but they kept in constant contact as they continued scanning and cataloguing their new home. For it would truly be their home when they were done. It was all part of their plan.
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