The manifold can wait, and there's not much chance of forgetting such a good idea like this, you reason, so you decide to get the meteor shower observations out of the way and done with.

You swipe your access card in the door to the stairs leading to the observatory, and it hisses open. You climb up to the grand observation deck with wide views of space before you.

Scanning devices show the nearby layout of moving objects withing the region, and all appears typical. You sit down at the large desk-like panel and gaze out into space, uninhibited by atmospheric blur like on Earth. The sun behind you, you can spot Earth in the distance, a blue dot the size of a pin's head. All the other stars are merely speckles in the distance. You have always been fascinated by these spectacular views. Do you: