Uncounted millennia ago the uncreated Creator reached forth a hand and touched a series of disparate universes. History has an odd way of repeating itself. By the end of November the ESX Arizona was ready for her first trial runs and I was her pilot. Capable of a sustained point-one G of acceleration, our prototype was expected to make the Mars run in less than a week. "The Project" was our name for a VASIMR Ion Drive interplanetary space craft that used thorium LFTR reactors for both shielding and power. My first posting after the promotion was to the Lunar One Air Base where I worked with my father, Dr. I finished my PhD in high energy physics and was promoted to lieutenant commander in the United States Air Force. The year actually started off rather nice. Had I known how often I'd be expected to die over the next several millennia, I might have made a stronger effort to stay dead. 2067 was the year I died for the first time.
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