Sunday December 11, 2016
Book 17: A Little Immortality — Part I

Transcript

NARRATOR: The night sky...

Mystery, and majesty, with the illusion of timelessness...

Pre-spaceflight sophonts tell themselves countless different stories about the pretty pinpricks of light that hang unchanging overhead.

NARRATOR: Spacefaring sophonts mine those stories in order to come up with cool names.

unknown 1: Zeus Alpha, you are clear to fire.

unknown 2: Firing.

NARRATOR: Spacefaring sophonts also endeavor to add their own lights to the sky.