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LudwigPastorius

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7. It's got to be surreal for those astronauts.

Reply to Polybius (Original post)

Sun Mar 16, 2025, 01:14 PM

Mar 2025

You leave for an 8 day mission, and come back to a dystopian nightmare-in-progress in which half of the agency you work for has been fired, and the country is being run by the richest Nazi in the world and a mentally ill man-baby bent on its destruction.

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