Many thanks to my critter meltedbee's extensive crit! As you can imagine, her engineering knowledge was incredibly helpful in this story. The crit she offered was literal rocket science, what more can I say? Anyways, congrats on becoming mod, and thank you for writing Atlas' Burden!
So yeah, it's based on Atlas' Burden. Now you don't have to call me out on it. This isn't all AB though. It's also me taking a look at sci-fi and wanting to change how… possible it feels. Instead of a couple novums that our society could feasibly develop someday, I wanted to make a world completely detached from ours. In other words, I wanted to blend the technology of sci-fi with the impossible features of Tolkien's works. After all, can we really predict the future of technology?
Pulling back, I tried to find the point of wasting precious time,
I sip and toast to normalcy, a fool's way into jealousy;
I mock and imitate goodbyes when I know that I can't deny,
That I'll be here forever-while.