Deep Sea to Mars
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Johnny Silverhand: Four thousand meters down. No corps, no signals, no bullshit. Just pressure and dark.
Johnny Silverhand: ROV drills through hydrothermal crust at 300 bar. The seabed doesn't negotiate.
Johnny Silverhand: Surface relay. Your data makes it topside before the ocean decides to keep it.
Johnny Silverhand: Satellite uplink does the rest. Assuming someone up there's still listening.
Johnny Silverhand: Atmospheric sampling at 12,000 meters. Weather doesn't care about your schedule.
Johnny Silverhand: Low Earth orbit. Four hundred klicks up and suddenly every border down there looks irrelevant.
Johnny Silverhand: Ion drive. Slow burn, months of transit. Plenty of time to reconsider your life choices.
Johnny Silverhand: Mars. Minus sixty, no atmosphere worth breathing, and somehow still less hostile than Night City.