Gagarin:
Giving the count: 1… 2… 3…. 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… 9… 10
How do you read me? Over.
Korolev:
“Kedr”, “Kedr”, this is “Zarya-1”. Reading you perfectly. Carry on.
Miles are the old crypto, only worse.
Crypto at least has a blockchain. Here you get a promise that one day, somehow, you’ll fly for free.
A $599.86 ticket is valued at 43,000 Rove Miles. A lovely figure β much like a Mexican bar tab after “just one more”.
You can, of course, mix and match β chuck in a hundred dollars and top up with miles:
$99.75 + 35,850 Rove Miles $200.19 + 28,650 Rove Miles $300.63 + 21,450 Rove Miles $400.38 + 14,300 Rove Miles $500.12 + 7,150 Rove Miles
Their exchange rate is as steady as the Mexican sun β $14 per thousand miles:
100 = $1.39 1000 = $13.95 10000 = $139.50
Somewhere in the reports of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), this figure already looks rather familiar. HMRC would recognise it too.
It’s all above board: Rove sells dreams β just with a layover and no checked luggage.
In practice it’s the same old story: you’re not buying a ticket, you’re buying a sense of control over airline chaos.
And the further you fly, the dearer that illusion gets π»
