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The Last Transmission Of The Starship Pyramus
100 seconds to detonation. All crew evacuate immediately.
Rob, I…
You used to say "we were stardust once and we’ll all be stardust again." You always were a sentimental son of a bitch.
Bobby, I’m about to break my promise.
60 seconds to detonation.The Centauri ambushed us. So, new orders: set the charge. Lure them in. And then…
Well, there are worse things in life than a quick end.
30 seconds to detonation.I’m sorry, Bobby. There's so much to say...
Don’t worry about me. I’m staring at death,
10, 9, 8-but all I can see is stardust.
From Guest Contributor, John Murray Lewis
Stardust
In the fairy tales, people go chasing after stardust because of its supposed magical properties. Legends are passed down of heroes anointed with the stuff and of diseases cured. There was one tale that my mother used to tell of a unicorn who had never tasted anything but stardust and you could ride her into magical realms. Stardust is the tears of angels, the remains of miracles.
Maybe there is some stardust in the universe that's like that, but I have found it's nothing but radiation and horrific burning. Leastways, it's the stardust that gave me all these awful scars.
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