Outer Darkness #1

[history79]

"The Charon is the premiere vessel in the Galactic Service for retrieving souls of people important to the war effort. In Outer Darkness, many, many hundreds of years in the future we’ve figured out there is no heaven, no hell. Your soul just gets cast out into infinity… forever, where it’s dark and horrible and filled with things that have been around forever, and that are malignant and evil and awful. Sure, they have the technology to bring back your soul and inset it into a lab grown body — but you have to be pretty damn important for the Service to deem you worthy of retrieval. The crew of The Charon are not the Galactic Service rejects, they the ones strong and brave enough to handle the horrors of space."

- John Layman

Comments

[hotfoot]

Uhhh...well, this isn't a recipe for disaster or anything.

Today, in societies that make 40K's Imperium of Man look good in comparison...

[remial]

yeah, this will end well

didn't I see this in Event Horizon?

[matrix_dragon]

In Event Horizon it was an unexpected horror their experiment led to. These dumbasses are doing it on purpose.

[captainbellman]

I like that the ship resembles a giant bat head!

[captainbellman]

I have to say tho, having read this in full it seems very reminiscent of Star Trek: Discovery.

[erikred]

"God Engine"

Heh, someone owes Scalzi a drink.