The Road to Burning LAN

by Alex Duncan

**Begin Transmission of Historical Archive #00002**

“Dude, you totally have to come.

It'll change your life forever. I seriously freaking mean it”.

That's how I coerced my mate Jeremy to come to Burning LAN, out at Techenge. A few Sparkers had cobbled together a working server from bits that had escaped the purge back in '27, and last year they fired it up for the first time on the eve of the Flyover, when the ill-fated Launchpad satellite made its biennial trip through the mesosphere, burning precious oxygen and scattering white hot debris across the planet. A dazzling reminder of an engineering folly some 30 years ago. So far it seems that man was not meant to see the stars.

This year's event wouldn't be blessed with the spectacular views that gave the odd-year festivals their cult following, but they were going to attempt a long distance linkup anyway. Since last year a booster antenna had materialised from the underground tech group that kept Burning LAN alive. It was the first time that we would be able to get a permanent link to the last remaining relic of the Tech Age. The Organic Devolution had eradicated every artificial artifact they could find. In just 2 short years, mankind lost every technological and scientific advance since the trebuchet.

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