Xavi navigated the Hopper around the disk in a downward spiral that let Alice study the scene below. The basic design was a wide concrete circle that had been divided into wedges like a clock face. Various gray and ochre structures were built on the hour marks around the central upload spire in the middle. The spire’s tall red lattice stretched upward two hundred feet to end in the transmittal plate, a flat gray triangle connected to the geostationary satellites overhead. Those satellites collated and boosted the scanned human transmissions outward to the colony printers in the solar system. Its upload light blinked as another soul left the planet, life reduced to ones and zeros.