The secession of the system and launch of the extra-solar system.

Characters

• Past arc (Secession)
  • System
    • Michelle Hadje
      • Still trying to deal with the lingering sensations from being lost
      • Doing her best to shape the system as it will be (reputation market, sensoria, perisystem architecture), basically acting as steering committee along with a few others.
    • The Only Time I know My True Name Is When I Dream (True Name)
      • Campaigns for individual rights and secession from Sys-side
  • Offline
    • Yared Zerezghi
      • Phys-side System tech
      • Campaigns for individual rights for Sys-side individuals, with the caveat of secession
      • Followws arc of Paul from Toledot Yeshu
    • Yosef Demma
      • NWAC (Northwest African Coalition) politician
      • Hires Yared to induce the secession from Phys-side
• Future Arc (Launch)
  • System
    • Codrin Balan
      • Launch-side historian
    • Ioan Balan
      • Sys-side historian and launch coordinator
    • Dear, Also, The Tree That Was Felled (Dear)
      • Launch-side storyteller (new job title)
    • May Then My Name Die With Me (May Then My Name)
      • Sys-side storyteller
  • Offline
    • Douglas Hadje
      • Phys-side System tech, launch coordinator
      • Diiistant cousin of Michelle, always feels some strange connection to her, too shy to communicate
    • de (because why not be goofy with names, it’s the dang future)
      • Member of collective
      • Wants to prevent launch b/c Earth is kinda falling apart and it resents that.

Brief outline

• Secession (2124 - coming up on 10 year anniversary of system)
  • System
  • Offline
• Launch (2325 - just after launch, on bicentennial anniversary of system)
  • System
    • Sys-side
    • Launch-side
  • Offline

Outline

• Epigraph
• Act I
• Act II
• Act III
• Conclusion

Notes

• The ships (identical) are similar to from Accelerando combined with a scissors mechanism a la Ilium and a rail gun. There’s a small version of the System, an RTG for power, a few attitude jets, and a light sail once it’s launched on each. Thin scaffold type thing about 10k kilometers long spun around the middle. In the scaffold is a rail gun to assist in propulsion as the ships are flung out into space by angular momentum, each in opposite directions.