Hannibal smiled at the students as they arrived. "Welcome to our last trip this term. I hope you've all enjoyed our little jaunts and found them inspiring. For this week, I hope you aren't all entirely soured on spaceships. We've booked a portal to a space station some time in the future. We'll be observing Earth from space, at a time when the sun is expanding enough to make it uninhabitable. It's a sight I'm told is beautiful and awe-inspiring, and yet also impresses upon you the impermanence of all things."
//In case you're worried,// Jono added, //the sun isn't scheduled to pull
this particular stunt for another five billion years, so it isn't exactly something any of you are likely to experience in your lifetimes, outside of this. Earth is quite safe from an expanding sun cooking us all away.// Another beat. //Though we might want to do something about climate change. That one
is right on our doorstep.//
Couldn't win 'em all.
Hannibal looked around to see if there were any last-minute questions, then headed for the -
( running Portalocity employee? )