Humans everywhere love to celebrate new years. And to make sure their friends enjoy it, too, they have huge swarms of drones, and laser shows, rather than fireworks. -- Anon Guest
There was an alert on Companion Gorx's datareader. Human New Year's with further information based on locale as to what those crazed, balding apes were doing. It wasn't the celebration of one small planet's completed orbit, it was the celebration of every Human colony's new year.
Thanks to varying negotiations, the Human race kept their collected celebrations to one official week.
That week had just begun. There was a schedule of various displays, and certain quarters were sealed off from Havenworlder access because the Deathworlders were setting off small fireworks. Not for display, but for the noise. They did it to scare away evil spirits.
Part of Grox suspected that Humans just liked being noisy.
Then again, the racket they kicked up was likely to scare anything away, including other Humans. There might be something of a point to it. Other areas had scheduled light shows. Lasers, drones, musical performances, and so on. Havenworlder-safe, for the most part.
Because amongst a great many other attributes, Humans liked to have their friends along to their parties.
In fact, there was an invitation to the Station Pops, an orchestra and choral get-together with a program that a great many could enjoy. It came from Human Steve. With the message, You buy the drinks and I buy the popcorn.
Music and singing with some physical performances and art on the jumbotron? Sounded like a good party. Those Humans certainly knew how to throw them.
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