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Endings and Beginnings
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The departures of the BrainTrust Fuxing and the BrainTrust Prometheus fleets had been postponed till the successful First Launch. Two days had passed since then, and now it was time for everyone to go. Ping, Jam, and Dash stood on the Argus at the gangway that would take Jam and Ping to the Mount Parnassus of the Prometheus fleet. More interconnecting gangways would take them through the Mount Helicon of the Fuxing fleet, thence on to the Taixue where everyone from the fleets was gathering for final briefings.
Ping was eager to roll. Since the Prometheus fleet was being dis
