Arise!

Arise, sons and daughters!

This humble sphere which you have called your home is naught but the first step in your journey.

For too many years we have slept in the womb of creation, content to merely gaze at the heavens. We threw rocks and twists of metal into the sky, touching the darkness above only with hesitant fingertips.

Arise! No longer is that sky beyond our grasp! Raise your arms, for that modern Prometheus, that most Science-blessed, that world-striding creator has given us the chariot and the steed in one! Look up, and see that Malcolm McCreedy has Limned us in glorious possibility!

O my sons and daughters, step forth and seize that possibility! For generations we have gazed through dark glass at worlds beyond our own, and yet these worlds remained the Above, the Unreachable Beyond.

No longer!

Would you waste away on Earth, in these barrows, these sloven huts, awash in the stagnation and rot? Will you stand with clay feet in the dust of generations, treading the same ground a billion before you have trod?

Or will you tread upon the stars themselves?

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The Zorica Trail Joint-Stock Company - invites you to a - General Meeting of Shareholders and Interested Parties for the Purposes of Raising Funds for Provisioning and Carriage - for - Interstellar Travel and Colonization

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• Interested parties of all means are Most Welcome. • Those with Skills in Navigation, Mechanical or Software Maintenance, and Life Support systems are much desired. • Fertility and Willingness to Procreate are not required but are strongly preferred due to the expected duration of the Journey.

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