This is flatly amazing -- the attention to technical detail and the sure hand you have with keeping all the different things happening headed toward the ending, instead of shearing off in a million different confusing directions. I'm looking forward to reading this again, because I think there's a lot I'll absorb when I'm not working so hard to keep up with Rodney and Radek's brains as they plan! I love Zelenka's philosophical bent and how it contrasts with Rodney's indestructible, nearly pathological attention to detail (gingivitis! of course he worries about gingivitis during the apocalypse!) This is really an accomplishment, and thank you so much for sharing it.