LIGHTSPEED Presents: 'Six Months After All Life on Titan Died' by JB Park
I need a binge-worthy banger about the incident on Titan. Let’s start with that one picture from Titan that leaked, the one of the weird fishes in those underwater ruins dying. Let’s get going with a second-person narration of You looking at it, thinking about how extinction just happened, and your hands are trembling, and history—your memories of all the tragedies and scandals past—informs you that everyone will forget about it in a few weeks.
We discovered sentient life and proceeded to wipe it out in the span of two days. Let’s get some history of the probe’s journey, it dropping into the atmosphere, the reactions from people around the world . For a day it was a thing. Some people are crying, they’re weeping like their family just died. Name drop the people that actually did die.The building is rigged against connections in both directions and no independent daemons are allowed so Tristiana downloads the pictures onto her phone.
Now that she is off the lot, her daemon comes back online. She instructs it to upload the pictures online. Only one goes through. The daemon is terminated remotely and she feels the onset of post-daemon stress. Just then, her gas vehicle starts sputtering, and her intuition that’s been honed from fighting in warzones since she was sixteen tells her that she’d better ditch it. So she brakes and comes to a quick halt by the side of the road where the vehicle starts glowing red-hot.
Flashback. It’s the peacekeeping mission she got sent to when she was sixteen. She has a rifle and they’re running down the halls of an abandoned shopping mall, and the ground shakes here and there with the tremors of falling explosives. Music is pumping in her ears. Excitement. All the targets are shaded in red. High score feel; bodies crumple. She thinks about it like—she used toin things. Lots of gore, people blowing up, dead children, survivors in rubble.
When she’s done, one of the phones that the goons were carrying rings again. It’s her mom. She says that they have her. Tristiana says,, and whoever is controlling the other line disconnects. Resolve, strength, determination.The waters of Titan are turning pink as a chain reaction melts down their ruins and an entire biosphere under the crust goes belly-up. People go up in flames outside government buildings and no one even looks.
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