Target – Ceres

If you’ve never been a cat, then don’t try. You’ve lost a lot in this life—but don’t despair: not everyone is granted it, even though technology is clearly progressing alongside AI. Only people-cats can travel through time and space. Why travel? It’s interesting, after all, to learn what’s going on out there beyond the earthly horizon, in the cosmic distances—how transplants and settlers live. What if someday we’ll have to relocate too?

Sometimes it happens that you also have to fly out to the ends of nowhere for official reasons, and orders aren’t discussed. For example, to Ceres—yes, that’s 0.25 TM, not more. Life there is in full swing, and the water is more than plentiful—important, because on our dry land a great drought will soon begin. But morals there are harsh: you need to know the Ceres language, otherwise the migrant will be put in jail and forced to pay a fine—ten thousand credits. Taking loans on credit, you say? What a scam…