Right before closing time in a small restaurant halfway between two big stars and the only sign of habitation for light years, the last few patrons crowd around to witness a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event.
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As natural geological events caused this once water-shrouded planet to become a desert, its fishlike inhabitants were forced to find innovative new ways to survive. They still roam among the dried out ruins of their once grandiose cities.
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These robots, set in motion by a civilization long since passed, still almost religiously attend to the tasks they were created to perform, attending to this peculiar machine.
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All images ©2000 Catherine Kimport.
Starlight Café series contains images borrowed from StarCraft, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Final Fantasy 7, Pokémon, and Vermeer.