maybe i'll fly one day

just the two of us interwoven with invisible thread, tethered among the stars

(alt versions below the cut)

- This is the night sky at 12:00 AM on the 13th of August, 2026

- The illustration is traced from the kana6 song 2dmv

- Kanade’s head star is Polaris, the north star

Stratt was a historian. She wasn't just pirating for the sake of entertainment for the astronauts, she was doing a full historical backup of the planet. Who knows how much knowledge and communications ability, how much art and culture and history, how much niche knowledge of how to make specific pieces of modern technology or modern medicines, was lost as the wars for resources isolated everyone, as the death tolls led to the deaths of specialized trade workers and scientists, as the power grids failing across the planet (or cut off, potentially) led to all the cloud servers going dark. Stratt was facing methods of combating extinction and she did her best to ensure that if/when the Hail Mary worked, it would send back not just the hope of the future in the solution to the astrophage, but the restoration of history and culture and knowledge.