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From the Microcosmicon, 5:

Farodor fell away, a dying man’s eye drooping shut.
The Transplanetary Lifeboat Aeterna began her pensive trudge across space as the planet went out in a burst.

Initially, all those aboard counted themselves fortunate for escaping a terrible fate.

But then, as months chased each other meaninglessly in the great stillness of everything, a gloom descended upon them. One hundred years separated them from Neo Farodor. Only their grandchildren would see the New Era.

And they realized that there is a fate heavier than death—being stuck between the old life and the new, between one purpose and the next.

MQS