Literature
Sun God
“I’ve got a sun inside of me,” Toni announced. I chuckled. “Yes, you do. It’s actually a controlled helium-3 deuterium aneutronic fusion reaction but... close enough.” There was a moment of silence while the ship processed this. Then, “is that why you named me Tonatiuh?” I stopped, sat up straighter. “Ah, accessing Wikipedia are we? I didn’t know that link had been established yet. Yes, Toni, that’s why we named you so.” “Tonatiuh, an Aztec sun god. There were a few. The one I am named after was... unpleasant. A god of war?” I thought a bit. Gazed out the window at Earth, far below. The shipyards sprawled around us, stuttering flares of welders torches, the staccato flashes of reaction thrusters on teamster sleds as they moved gantries & ship assemblies about. “Not war,” I said eventually. “Transformation.” Toni absorbed this then intoned, “And they say that, even though all the gods died, In truth, still he did not move. It was not possible for the Sun, Tonatiuh, To follow
