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The arctic seed library was unequivocally a good idea; when you think about it, the fact that stable biospheres exist at all is a fucking miracle. The folks sitting up there in the snow clearly had a lot of time to think about this fact, before they went rogue.

The lab equipment and grow-tanks in the library were intended for testing the long term viability of stored seeds. The giant refrigeration units were mostly there to supplement the natural refrigeration during the height of the brief arctic summers.

After the Diaspora we reconstructed what they did: the gene sequencers in the lab combined all the millions of collected genomes into the Metaseed. Cannibalism of refrigeration coils made a handy linear accelerator to propel soda-can sized metaseed parcels toward dozens of targets in the solar system, and hundreds beyond.

All¹ these verdant worlds are yours.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

¹Except Europa, something ate the metaseeds that impacted there.