ARK OF STARS
We weren't leaving Earth behind. We were abandoning it, which is worse. Captain James Callahan stood on the observation deck of the colony vessel New Covenant and watched Earth shrink to a blue marble and then to a star among stars. The ship's engines hummed behind him — not the clean, silent fusion drives of military vessels, but the clanking, sweating steam turbines of a design borrowed from...
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