It was over.
Theo's head shook.
He cried like he lost everything.
Everything was over.
Everything.
Gone.
After all- he remembered how it all started.
A long- long time ago- Theo was a leader of a planet. A backwater Bromitian planet.
He was a count- by interstellar standards and had a family.
Things were great.
Things were really great.
And he wanted it to go on forever.
But- though living standards were quite high and so was medicine- the prospect of living past 120 was pale…
Which was why-
Why he started developing something.
Something to perhaps make it last.
He studied biochemistry and hired the best scientists on the planet- working together…
But what started out as a simple project to slow aging and increase lifespan… ended up as a relentless search for something impossible…. Immortality.
Brutal-
Relentless-
Research.
It took him eighty years-
