How it opens
Broadcast City was four hundred acres of studios, towers, and ambition, and it employed you to aim the ambition.
You were the man who made the world watch, a programming director with a staff of geniuses and a conscience on standby.
My drive makes a ship fall toward any star it names. The mathematics is finished. The bankbook is not.
Falls toward any star it names. Mankind has been promised the stars by preachers for ten thousand years. You are the first to bring a timetable.
A timetable, a bankbook, and a ship. Two of the three are on this table.
Choose
Sell it as a show. The biggest audience in history, watching the biggest doorstep in history.
Sell it as a claim. Whoever pays for the flight owns the footage of the future.
Sell it as a duty. A network that speaks for mankind should ride with it.