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The End Watch

The End Watch is nothing more than a narrow 2-kilometre tunnel dug into the lunar bedrock at the center of Oppenheimer. Viewed from a lunar cruise liner floating a few hundred kilometers above the surface, it resembles an atomic chronograph built from exotic Transo Ganis and atoms from the island of stability. But in any event, counting on the billions upon trillions upon duo trigentilions of seconds toward the great rip crunch-chill bounce, The End Watch is a memorial to humankind's genius and hubris alike,. A defiant rage and rave at the dying of the light.

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