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The ship lifted off into a violent sky. One of the Dock’s huge cranes tumbled into the void beneath causing a shock-wave that began a cascade which sent the scarred holes crumbling back into the Earth itself.
Above the vessel there was only peace and silence. For a moment, so short it could be mistaken for a fantasy, the sky was blue. A blue that had not been seen in decades. Then it was black pitted with tiny points of light growing brighter as the ship escaped its sacred home and began its voyage into the unknown. I looked back down upon the Earth as it disappeared into a dot and thought how grey and yellow the planet had become, I couldn’t see any of the green and blue that was. There was only that burnt landscape.