A few months after saving Mars One and stopping the war, Rachel, the second woman with whom I had considered ending my life, told me of her decision concerning both of us.

steve, even though I'm an android, I love you. but our love is impossible. you deserve to have someone who can give you children. and I must know my origins.

She then decided to leave with a ship on which we had mounted an ion engine based on the models found on Duval's desk.

zero, captain cortez no longer had anything holding him back. he was one of the first cosmonauts on Mars. he wanted to be the first on an exoplanet.

they were non-lethal and more limited by the human condition. rachel, I mean pandora decided to leave for the triple proxima system, alpha centauri five light years away because her memories indicated an ancient terraforming experience on this planet and she had to start somewhere. They would take eighty years but time no longer mattered to them. the separation of our group which was united by the fight was heartbreaking. then a year then two passed.