Elias sat in the blue light of his monitor, the clock ticking past 2:00 AM. He had been searching for weeks for a high-quality version of his favorite childhood film. Finally, on a forum buried deep in the second page of search results, he found it.

As the download bar slowly crept from 0% to 100%, the air in his room grew strangely cold. He didn’t mind; he was already thinking about the "etherium" and the solar-sailing ships. But when the file finished, it wasn't a movie icon that appeared on his desktop. It was a golden, holographic sphere.

Elias spun around to see a massive cyborg with a mechanical arm—John Silver. But this wasn't a screen; he could smell the engine grease and the cosmic salt air.