Chapter 32
Year 875.6 of travel, nearing the Sol System: En-route to Earth.
We had floated in the glass-like travel pod, our entities perfectly inert and maintained by the Premba-improved NanoBots. Occasionally we would revive and gaze at the passing stars, intermittently seeing the pointless striving of the biological races as they sped by in their little metal ships hating and killing each other.
Silvie’s Encapsulation Module murmured to me incessantly in the deep darkness with love and affection. We talked about and hoped for a future together that would last forever.
After countless years we awoke to find Mars passing below us, the human cities visible but lifeless beneath their shattered domes. The aged wreckage of spacecraft lay nearly buried under the red dust.
Soon we neared
