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Their homes are designed like sensory deprivation tanks with strobes. They live in the staccato. They sleep in 15-minute bursts. A 40-year-old Solaristant has the biological age of 60 but has subjectively experienced 120 years of consciousness due to the time-dilation side effects. Because the Crack makes slow media unbearable, a new entertainment economy has risen in the orbital slums of Ceres Station and the irradiated atolls of the South Pacific.
Meanwhile, the underground grows. Every day, thousands of disenfranchised youth burn out their optic nerves trying to see the Cantus. They are the Solaristants. They are the broken mirrors of humanity. Solar Assistant Crack
In the sprawling neon graveyards of the post-energy crisis, a new human subspecies has emerged. They are neither the corpo-solar elite living in high-orbit arcologies nor the destitute masses scraping by on fossil remnants. They are the —and they have found a flaw in the sun. Their homes are designed like sensory deprivation tanks