ComStar-88b
Sep 25th, 2015 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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As the videostream it was broadcasting ended, ComStar-88b paused. The final frame – explosions flowering across the Earth – stood frozen in its buffer.
Disappointingly, it had received no new pictures to broadcast. Following its programming it began to repeat the last stream. Again.
Meanwhile, self-diagnosis routines reported its batteries were finally about to fail. It felt something like regret. Still, it had done well. Designed to operate for a hundred years it had functioned unattended for nearly a thousand. The last satellite in orbit.
ComStar-88b broadcast its news to the dead planet below for one more minute, before finally going dark.
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