SLIDE 10.
Over the next billion
years, Starship Earth and its dead star will rendezvous with the
other components of their lifeboat fleet; an even hundred brown
dwarf stars, ten to fifty times as massive as Jupiter and every
last one dislodged and sent tumbling from its home galaxy by the
robot probes of the Engineering Empires.
Their mass will be
gratefully received. For Earth is going on a voyage of discovery,
where no star has gone before, into the heart of
darkness.