SLIDE 1.
Our solar system
under the Stasis, first epoch.
Continents slide and
drift, scurrying and scraping across the surface of the mantle.
Lights flicker around the coastlines, strobing on and off in
kiloyear cycles as civilizations rise and fall. In space, the swarm
of orbital-momentum-transfer robots built from the bones of Ceres
begin to cycle in and out, slowly pumping energy downwell to the
Earth to drag it farther from the slowly brightening
sun.