Immortality

For a long while, I have been hinting to you that OMCOM's magic yellow pill had other side effects not yet revealed.

Throughout the Rome's Revolution saga, I have unveiled all but one of the effects. These include healing Rei's back pain and giving him remarkable recuperative powers as evidenced in Rome's Evolution. It gave Rome and Rei the "cell phone in the head" which allows them to communicate across vast distances. It gave Rei "sonar-vision" which he can use to see in the dark even better than Rome can when using her iRods.

Without giving too much away, let me ask you, would immortality be a bad thing? Certainly I have said to myself that if I had enough time to have multiple careers, I'd like to spend one lifetime as a lawyer, one owning a restaurant, certainly one as a science fiction writer. But what would I do after that? I'm not even sure what my fifth and sixth careers would be.

If you had immortality and others did not, what would it be like outliving your children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren and so on? Don't you think after a time, it might grow wearisome seeing your loved ones wither and die while you go on and on?

I would hope that in the next several hundred years we would develop an FTL star drive and then my fifth career could be space explorer. That'd be fun.

But in the end, would you want to just go on forever? Does that give you enough clues? When The Milk Run comes out, be sure the read the Epilogue to find out.

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