There was no sun, not in the conventional sense, the giant star like ball of energy had been created seemingly eons ago. So long ago no one really knew anymore. There were cults about it over the planet, but no one really knew.

“Did they even care,” thought Joanna? “As long it went on at the right time it didn’t matter” Although beng on the repair unit for it was a pain, she had to admit. What a day job!

The only part of the shift she enjoyed was the occasional wait for compile time that left her with nothing to do for an hour, but was still too short to hassle with the 3 hour trip back to the surface. She spent quite a bit of that mulling over an unusual monitor that displayed a bit pattern that seemed static at first but after quite some time was apparently shifting ever so slowly…

What will our beautiful, resourceful, heroic heroine Joanna do next? Got an idea? Join us next Thursday to help determine her fate! Too tired to write more now, but that little teaser should keep you busy until I come back and explain more about it tomorrow…