Back on Earth, everyone was still talking about the numbers Nova Technologies had posted in their first month and their upcoming product, Lucid Air.

It would take a while for the world to recover from the double dose of shock they'd received. With the delivery of the second batch of 1,000 Lucid units scheduled for less than a week away, Nova Technologies would dominate conversations for the foreseeable future.

Just as everyone thought the company might finally give them breathing room to process everything, Nova Technologies made another announcement.

By now, posts from Nova Technologies' official account had become top priority for every government, every major corporation, and every media organization on the planet. Analysts sat with notifications enabled. Intelligence agencies monitored the account in real-time. News outlets kept dedicated staff watching for updates.

This treatment was one reason their follower count had exploded to 720 million in just twenty-four hours after the Transparency Report dropped. People weren't just following anymore—they were obsessed, desperate not to miss whatever impossible thing the company would unveil next.

So when the notification arrived, the response was immediate.

📢 Official Announcement

Nova Technologies will be hosting a live exploratory broadcast via the official LucidNet account.

The livestream will feature real-time footage from within the solar system, captured directly using Lucid infrastructure. The broadcast is intended to demonstrate LucidNet's real-time streaming capabilities, latency performance, and environmental rendering under extreme conditions.

Key details:

• Live, uninterrupted transmission

• No pre-recorded footage

• No identity reveal

• No interaction with viewers beyond standard LucidNet engagement tools

This broadcast is informational and experiential in nature.

Full experiential access requires Lucid hardware.

📅 Livestream Date: Within 24 hours

📍 Location: Off-world (specific coordinates undisclosed)

Further details will be released shortly.

***

The internet broke within seconds.

Twit's servers buckled under the weight of millions of simultaneous posts. The platform's engineering team scrambled to add capacity as the screenshot of the announcement was tweeted over five million times in the first three minutes alone.

"WITHIN THE SOLAR SYSTEM???"

"They're literally in space right now. NOVA TECH IS IN SPACE."

"Off-world. They said off-world. Like it's casual. Like it's NORMAL."

"This company launched ONE MONTH AGO and they're already doing space broadcasts???"

But within minutes, a second wave of reactions emerged, these ones tinged with frustration and desperation.

"Wait, FULL EXPERIENTIAL ACCESS REQUIRES LUCID HARDWARE??"

"So the rest of us just get... what? A regular video stream?"

"There are literally only 1,000 Lucid devices on the entire planet. ONE THOUSAND. And they're making the real experience exclusive to those people?"

"This is the cruelest marketing strategy I've ever seen."

The realization spread like wildfire through social media. While everyone with internet access could watch the stream through LucidNet's standard interface, only the thousand Lucid owners would experience it fully—whatever that meant.

"I missed the first pre-order by SECONDS and now I'm going to miss the most incredible experience of the decade," someone said in frustration.

The frustration took on different flavors across different communities.

Gaming forums erupted with accusations of artificial scarcity and predatory marketing.

"They're deliberately creating FOMO to drive demand. This is manipulation, pure and simple."

"Is it manipulation if they're actually delivering something unprecedented? They're not lying about the capabilities."

"Doesn't matter. Restricting access to only 1,000 people when hundreds of millions want it is cruel."

Tech communities tried to rationalize the decision from a business perspective.

"Look, they probably can't manufacture these things at scale yet. Advanced technology takes time to produce. Would you rather they release a million units of inferior quality?"

"They made $130 million in their first month from just 1,000 units. They don't NEED to scale up quickly. They can afford to maintain exclusivity."

"That's exactly the problem. They're prioritizing prestige over accessibility."

Financial analysts saw the strategy clearly and grudgingly admitted its effectiveness.

A Bloomberg segment dedicated fifteen minutes to discussing the announcement. The host brought on a marketing professor from Harvard Business School.

"What Nova Technologies is doing here is masterful," the professor explained. "They're not just selling a product—they're selling access to an exclusive tier of human experience. The space stream isn't just content; it's proof of concept. It demonstrates that Lucid owners exist in a fundamentally different reality than everyone else."

"But doesn't that risk alienating potential customers?" the host asked.

"On the contrary. It makes the product more desirable. Humans are social creatures. We're hardwired to want what others have, especially when it's scarce and prestigious. Every person watching that stream on a regular screen, knowing there's a better version they can't access, becomes a potential future customer."

"Assuming they can ever actually buy one."

"And that's the genius of it. The scarcity isn't artificial—it's real. There genuinely are only 1,000 units available right now. But they've announced another 1,000 coming next week. So there's hope. There's a path to access. They're dangling membership in the Digital Aristocracy just close enough that people can imagine reaching it."

The professor's analysis spread rapidly through business forums and MBA program discussions. Some called it brilliant. Others called it cynical. Most acknowledged it was probably both.

Financial markets responded with chaos to the announcement. Trading in aerospace stocks went haywire. Lockheed Martins dropped 8% in minutes. Boeeing fell 6%. SpaseX's private valuations took an estimated 15-20% hit as investors recalculated the competitive landscape.

Someone had leapfrogged the entire aerospace industry while everyone was focused on rocket development and satellite networks. Nova Technologies wasn't competing in the space race—they'd apparently already won it and were now showing off.

News networks interrupted regular programming with breaking news alerts. CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, NHK—every major outlet scrambled to get experts on air to explain what this meant.

A former NASA administrator appeared on CNN within ten minutes of the announcement, his expression somewhere between awe and disbelief.

"If they can broadcast live from anywhere in the solar system with low enough latency for streaming," he said slowly, "then they've solved problems we didn't even know had solutions. The communication delays alone—signals from Mars take anywhere from four to twenty-four minutes to reach Earth depending on orbital positions. From Jupiter? Thirty-five to fifty-two minutes. If they're claiming real-time streaming..."

The host leaned forward. "What does that mean?"

"It means they have technology so far beyond anything publicly known that we need to reconsider what we thought was possible."

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