Thursday, November 29, 2007

Pools of Fullerene

Space is lonely and cold. And harsh. And unforgiving. And full of surprises. Witness our plucky protagonists, just a couple of asteroid miners, hoping to make a buck sucking buckyballs out of craters. But some of those puddles are deeper than they look, and some, a very few, hold your dreams. The find of the century, a wealth almost beyond imagine. That's what our friends stumble upon in one of those purple pools. And now they have anything they want and everything they imagined. Oh, you can spend a lifetime searching the galaxy and never find anything good or bad. And then, just when you have the best, the worst may be right behind it....

Monday, February 5, 2007

Beyond the Limit of Sight

Peering into the beyond is what a race strives for. It seeks beauty, and truth, in hopes of glimpsing itself from long ago or far into the future. Sometimes, what is found is neither.

At the edge of the Solar System

Just beyond the comfort of our own system is a wide Saragaso of space, interspersed with dust, rocks and the occasional body. This is our hedge, our boundary of what is in and what is not, more of a mental limit than physical barrier. It is from beyond this that destiny and defeat may come. Time will tell....soon.