=Thunder on the Horizon (10370 Hylonome)= 
**Station Type:** [[Beehives|Beehive]] and Track
**Allegiance:** Independent ([[Bioconservatives|Bioconservative]])
**Primary Languages:** Burmese, English, Hindi
**Population:** 3,000
Ensconced on a 70-kilometer-wide centaur asteroid, this station was founded by a bioconservative faction with a nuanced outlook. Believing that death is a natural, meaningful, and desired thing, bringing more sanctity and reverence to life than immortality, they were still eager to avoid the frailty, loss of cognitive ability, suffering, and burdens to others that come with natural aging. In their view, the ideal life is one lived in full health for a respectable period of around 100 years, after which death comes as a lightning bolt out of the blue, suddenly and without the contrivance or social pressure that might come with a planned death. Known as “bolters,” these moderate bio-cons deliberately install a system of whole-body apoptosis, or programmed cell death, so that they will simply and rapidly drop dead at some variable point in the future, with only a few minutes warning. Bolters also typically eschew uploading and resleeving and advocate a deliberate deceleration of technological progress to more cautious and safe levels, without holding the religious baggage or extremist views common to other bioconservative tendencies. Thousands of them are spread throughout transhuman society.
The founding bolter residents of Thunder on the Horizon took this a step further. Everyone who voluntarily enters this habitat must submit to an apoptosis system, no resleeving is allowed, and no one is allowed to leave without the express permission of the Governing Council, which usually only grants leave for missions vital to the habitat. The residents here are expected to live out the rest of their days peacefully and happily, until they suddenly drop dead at some point between now and the next 5 years. These particular bolters feel that transhumanity is moving so fast that they would rather “check out” early, before things get too weird, the TITANs return, or some other techno-disaster strikes.
A rumor currently circulating the mesh, however, indicates that some of the bolters who joined the habitat immediately after the Fall have now rethought their position on dying, particularly given that the TITAN threat seems to have subsided and transhumanity is growing more prosperous. The Governing Council is, however, refusing to allow these people to leave or resleeve.

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