They All Fall Down.

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As their tiny craft hovered up, up, and away Jon made a brief call to the sysadmin, Phil Watkins, aboard the station. Although Phil was a busy and put-upon little man, he dutifully opened the command line window and typed a few arcane keystrokes. On the planet below, in the scorched and scarred ship, Syl's program quietly answered Phil's command and began the slow process of transcribing herself into a stream of code pointed at a small elliptical dish on the rescue ship. By the time Jordan made orbit Syl' existed in two places at once. The planetside Syl' confirmed that the orbiting Syl' was whole and complete and then promptly shut down all of the ship's systems she'd been furiously juggling amperes to keep charged. As the second sun began to set on the crash site, the planetside Syl' gave herself, and then obeyed, the command to cease to exist.

end of chapter one