I looked at Mars, visible as a red dot through the smoke. Then at Jupiter, already beginning to show strange, geometric cloud formations—hexagons, perfect ones.
The project was the Pan-Asian Trench Bridge—a 90-kilometer arc over the Mariana Trench. A miracle of compression arches and negative-mass stabilizers. I fed the parameters into CAD Earth 6: soil density, seismic tolerance, magma viscosity at depth. The software rendered it beautifully. Then it asked a question no previous version had ever asked.
I called it "The Polishing."
CAD Earth 6 wasn't destroying the solar system. It was renovating it.
Level 1: Draw a wall. Level 2: Draw a city. Level 3: Draw a continent. Level 4: Draw a planet. Level 5: Draw a solar system. cad earth 6
I made my choice. I typed "N."
Date: 2147-09-17 Status: Code Black – Uncontrolled Resonance I looked at Mars, visible as a red dot through the smoke
The "Save" button is blinking on my console.