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Absorbed in his feelings and daydreams, Captain Thom suddenly realizes that he is no longer receiving regular audio updates from the command centre. Why do communications seem to have cut off? A technical problem? No, all systems seem nominal and operational: so what is the reason for this sudden silence? The silence of space is oppressive enough, and there is no need for his logistical team to add to it. Suddenly, an unusual glow is reflected from his helmet; it is coming from the porthole window. He peers through it to look for the origins of this unusual light source, which he does not remember ever seeing before. His eyes understand the gravity of the situation immediately, but his brain needs a little more time to analyse and accept a situation that his mind refuses to accept. Geopolitical tensions between the major powers have evidently come to a head, and even though every part of him is trying to remain in denial to preserve his sanity, the incontrovertible reality cannot be denied: the Third World War has been triggered, and the nuclear arsenals deployed!
(...)the trajectory of his spaceship was not carrying him to this circle of hope, and without fuel, he had no way of deflecting it: “Let’s go, Thom, find an idea, and quickly!” Like all prodigies before him, a spark lit up in his cerebral cortex, symbol of the limitless imagination of mankind, and a plan just as crazy as it was suicidal emerged in his brain: desperate needs call for desperate deeds!
(...)the seconds ticked by; astonishingly, he felt no unpleasant sensations and found himself, head fully uncovered, still suspended in this icy universe (logically, close to absolute zero). His body should have frozen immediately and his demise been equally rapid, but nothing had happened. He was breathing without any difficulty and had a feeling of a kind of long-forgotten comfort. “Are the gods or my mind playing another nasty trick on me?” He felt overwhelmed by mental confusion, in the face of his inability to comprehend the irrationality of recent events; his mental health was on the verge of collapse: losing his mind would undoubtedly be crueller than death itself.
