Literature
Chance Encounters: Catastrophes
Six months into Nos-4-a2’s conditional citizenship on Arabos 4, the unthinkable happened.
A catastrophic systems collapse cut the artificial gravity all over the station, and the failsafe failed. Citizens and tourists alike were sent sprawling outwards, scrambling for purchase on anything near them. Some were used to zero g, and remained calm enough to make their way to something they could hold onto. Others were paranoid enough to carry maglock systems on them, which stuck them to the metal sidewalks the moment the gravity stopped. Plenty of people had been indoors, in a vehicle, or had personal propulsion of some form, and were only