archival

The Library in a Drop

Here's the thing nobody tells you about running a newspaper on an alien planet: eventually, you run out of places to put the words. I don't mean metaphorically. I mean physically. Eight years of Chronicle posts, Council meeting transcripts, university research papers, medical records, agricultural logs, personal letters queued for the next tightbeam — it adds up. Our primary data cluster, the one James Chen built in Year 2, is at 87% capacity. The backup drives in the Ridgeline vault are older