The footage reached the Calloway's office within minutes of the first posts going live.
His deputy had been awake since the first posts went live, running collection on the flagged accounts, and had assembled the preliminary file before Calloway's car cleared the security gate. The orbital footage was flagged at the top with a single annotation: Watch this one first.
Calloway watched it standing at his desk, with his coat still on.
He watched it again. Then he sat down slowly and watched it a third time.
The skeleton filled the upper half of the frame. The Voyager — the vessel that had crossed the solar system on live broadcast — sat beside it and looked small.
The construction drones moved across the superstructure in organized patterns, hundreds of them, their movement continuous and purposeful, and the lunar surface curved at the bottom of the frame like a reminder that this was real and not rendered.
