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The silence stretched. Dr. Aris looked at her shoes.

Kael felt a chill, though the room was warm. “Extended Temporal Acceleration Protocol. The ship cannot sustain consciousness for 140 years. So, it clones a single crew member in sequential stages. Each stage lives for one year, performs maintenance, then… terminates. The next stage wakes up with all the memories of the previous ones, up to a point.” etap 24

Tomorrow, he would check Bay 8. The day after, Bay 9. He would fix what was broken. He would keep the soil alive. And when the time came, he would lie down one last time, close his eyes, and let the Odyssey arrive without him. The silence stretched

Kael opened his eyes. Or rather, he remembered opening them. The world swam into focus—sterile white walls, the smell of recycled air, and the distant hum of the ship’s core. He was lying on a hard pallet, a thin sheet over his jumpsuit. Kael felt a chill, though the room was warm

“The memories degrade after stage twelve,” he whispered. “Everything before that is… gone. I know what a dog is. I know what rain feels like. But I don’t remember ever experiencing them.”