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Chapter 1: Cutoff

The traffic is dismal in Dome City. The aircars hover, waiting for the robots to finish their work removing a broken-down vehicle from the airlane before it resumes and takes Samuel back to the little box he calls home. “At least,” Samuel thought to himself, “at least I’m not exposed to the air outside or stuck living in The Dregs.” The Dregs was the ghetto section of Dome City, spread out over kilos upon kilos of land below the planetary surface, housing people who were only just able to get by – no jobs, no prospects, no force squads, no light from the day star, Nova, and no hope. It is a daily struggle for the residents who live there, the brutal side of the sacred human ecology of competitive evolution taken up by the leaders of Dome City. “At least I have an aircar,” Samuel muttered to himself.

The aircar hummed a self-satisfied musing, and lifted itself and Samuel up into the airlane preparing to gauge its surroundings and resume the journey back to Wonderland, Samuel’s gateway community, floating above the tenements of The Dregs. With a start, the car accelerated into the stream of other aircars, all taking their occupants to another section of Dome City, like vesicles being delivered by intracellular messengers to the proper receptor organs within the organism of society. Dome City, as everyone knew, was the last to survive the Omega Incident. Outside of the boundaries of the city was only drought and devastation. Those who lived in Dome City knew that they at least could live, whatever their standing. “What exactly happened to the other cities?” thought Samuel. “Did they –”

In an instant, Samuel found himself flying through the aircar, his body smashing against the opposite door, wrenching his neck to the side and contorting his frame unnaturally. His restraint lay broken on the adjacent seat. Looking out the back windscreen of the aircar, Samuel saw a relic, an antique from an older age, a museum piece naught to be seen in the airlanes. It was an aircycle, one of the first models to emerge after antigravity was invented, and highly illegal in the airlanes, as it did not have a robotic pilot as do all modern aircars. The cycle must have cut off Samuel’s aircar, a feat unheard of on modern skyways, and sent him reeling into a building. “What the hell is that doing here?” mused Samuel. Aircycles were rare and aircar mishaps of this kind were almost nonexistent. Samuel felt lucky to have survived, particularly since his restraint failed, another unlikely coincidence. Ensuring he was only bruised, a robomedic summoned another aircar to transport Samuel home.

The traffic intensified as Samuel got closer to Wonderland. Friends and neighbors congregated in their isolation, doing the cellular work necessary to keep the organism alive. He tried to suppress the forbidden thought that there was something terribly mysterious and terribly wrong with the world as it was. Where was freedom? There must be a Solution.

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from The Legend of Kopesh​-​Ra, track released May 27, 2013

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drummis New York

drummIs is an improvisational electronic musician. Most of what you hear on this site is played live in one track. Tools include the trapKAT MIDI controller, TD-5 drum brain, electric bass guitar, the RC-50 Looper, ME-25 effects, guitars, an iPad with too many apps, and a squeaky octopus. Located in upstate New York, he goes by Kurt Reymers, and is otherwise occupied as a professor of sociology. ... more

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