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Transcript

• Ahmis: The Grasskan wasn't lying: This ship is a heap.
• Kik: Will it get us off Wirum?
• Ahmis: Without question. I imagine three weeks should do it.
• Kik: It gon' take us three weeks to get 'er runnin'?
• Ahmis: Well, we're not taking off with that FTL drive, for one thing. Grasskan Spirits claw and clamber like a stumbling child.
• Ahmis: No no no... We'll install a Circle's End.
• Kik: A what??
• Ahmis: A most elegant Spirit: an interstellar drive, birthed eons ago by our founding maker.
• Ahmis: It gathers dark matter in mighty breaths, and with it, sings a still, sweet song to the universe.
• Ahmis: A song that stirs the most sublime dance... as a naked singularity forms to pinch space.
• Kik: Wait, what? Nekkid singularities ain't possible. All my books say if a singularity forms, it "always gon' be wrapped in a horizon, and ain't nobody in th' external universe gon' see it."
• Ahmis: I highly doubt your books said it that way. But, to your point...
• Ahmis: Naked singularities were indeed impossible before the dulcet Spirit of a Circle's End.
• Ahmis: Oh, Kik! I am genuinely excited at everything you're about to learn!
• Kik: Also: Do we gotta use the word nekkid?
  
  
• Dave: FRIENDS!
  I'm Kickstarting a beautiful hardcover collection of the full first act of my sci-fi comedy, "Drive".
  
  Many of you love it and read religiously. Lots of you have been waitung for a book, to really dive in.
  
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  Go to:
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  ... watch the video, and support the book, if you're willing. Thank you!
  Dave
• [Dave's shirt claims "I'm the best at cake"]

Trivia

• This page is called "Circle's End"
• Circle's End is also the name of the Continuum's core planet.
• The Grasskan ship is an hommage to the Canadian "Turbo" train.
• This is the first use of "Circle's End" as a name for the Ring Drive, but it is also the first time FTL drives other than the Ring Drive are confirmed.
• Naked singularities are mathematically possible, but they do seem impossible to exist. For more accessible information for non-physicists, watch Could Naked Singularities Exist?.