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The walls and floor are fully transparent. You have full 360 degree vision of your surroundings of, well, wherever you just ended up at.
The second thing that hits you is that you're floating in the air. It reminds you of your final descent into the heart of the STILLE DAG base. God, that was so long ago.
The third and final thing you realize is why you're floating. Outside of the glass is the frontier itself. The end of all ends.
Space.
A milky black abyss stretches out in all directions. Tiny bright dots of light are sprinkled throughout the abyss, desperately shining their light into the endless fathoms.
It was one thing to see them back at the forest but to be here, in space itself, all by yourself. It truly is something else.
It takes some real, concentrated effort to find Earth. A small blue marble shines brightly through the abyss. You've seen old photos of the original 'blue marble' image and, wow, there was a LOT more land in that photo. Only a few specks of land are scattered throughout the planet. Tiny triangular islands dotted in a deep blue abyss. Scars from a long ago war have torn deep gashes into the planet's surface but it's otherwise 'intact'.
Floating around it are the Moon and, of course, the Y-Corp Station you know but you can't really see from this distance. Floating. Floating. Floating.
Everything you fought for. Everything you worked for. All on that tiny blue marble.
Normally, someone facing this kind of revelation would say something like 'oh nothing matters' or 'oh how meaningless we are in the scheme of the universe'. Cityslickers would eat up that nihilistic bullshit.
You?
You can't help but to smile upon seeing it. Why? Well. Everything you care about is on there. Your family. Your friends. The sweeping changes you made to the City. Hell, last you heard, D-Company's darkness is now 75% lighter than it used to be. That's besides the point.
It's the only world you have. Y-Company, despite spending god knows how long searching space, hasn't found any other planet like Earth that has life living on it. Humanity might as well be the only life in this universe (aside from anomalies but they represent humanity in their own way).
You glance up into the cloudy black abyss. You once heard a factoid that all of the light shining from stars in the night sky are hundreds or thousands of years old. For all anyone knows, the stars that light came from could be long dead. Glimmering light that's a remnant of a grand, luminous ball of plasma.
You suppose that's probably how you, a fellow Star (even if only of the City), will end up. Eventually, you'll die. People who knew you will join with you until you're just a part of City history. A notable figure in a dusty book thousands of pages long.
Perhaps the world will stay changed after you're long gone. Perhaps everything resets to zero. Perhaps people forget about you entirely and move on to let another Star shine.
You don't mind. You had your time of your life.
The second thing that hits you is that you're floating in the air. It reminds you of your final descent into the heart of the STILLE DAG base. God, that was so long ago.
The third and final thing you realize is why you're floating. Outside of the glass is the frontier itself. The end of all ends.
Space.
A milky black abyss stretches out in all directions. Tiny bright dots of light are sprinkled throughout the abyss, desperately shining their light into the endless fathoms.
It was one thing to see them back at the forest but to be here, in space itself, all by yourself. It truly is something else.
It takes some real, concentrated effort to find Earth. A small blue marble shines brightly through the abyss. You've seen old photos of the original 'blue marble' image and, wow, there was a LOT more land in that photo. Only a few specks of land are scattered throughout the planet. Tiny triangular islands dotted in a deep blue abyss. Scars from a long ago war have torn deep gashes into the planet's surface but it's otherwise 'intact'.
Floating around it are the Moon and, of course, the Y-Corp Station you know but you can't really see from this distance. Floating. Floating. Floating.
Everything you fought for. Everything you worked for. All on that tiny blue marble.
Normally, someone facing this kind of revelation would say something like 'oh nothing matters' or 'oh how meaningless we are in the scheme of the universe'. Cityslickers would eat up that nihilistic bullshit.
You?
You can't help but to smile upon seeing it. Why? Well. Everything you care about is on there. Your family. Your friends. The sweeping changes you made to the City. Hell, last you heard, D-Company's darkness is now 75% lighter than it used to be. That's besides the point.
It's the only world you have. Y-Company, despite spending god knows how long searching space, hasn't found any other planet like Earth that has life living on it. Humanity might as well be the only life in this universe (aside from anomalies but they represent humanity in their own way).
You glance up into the cloudy black abyss. You once heard a factoid that all of the light shining from stars in the night sky are hundreds or thousands of years old. For all anyone knows, the stars that light came from could be long dead. Glimmering light that's a remnant of a grand, luminous ball of plasma.
You suppose that's probably how you, a fellow Star (even if only of the City), will end up. Eventually, you'll die. People who knew you will join with you until you're just a part of City history. A notable figure in a dusty book thousands of pages long.
Perhaps the world will stay changed after you're long gone. Perhaps everything resets to zero. Perhaps people forget about you entirely and move on to let another Star shine.
You don't mind. You had your time of your life.
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