‘And I can see the impact region, clearly. A new crater at the centre of Hellas, perhaps six kilometres across. It is sharply defined. So new, so perfect in its symmetry, that it is almost beautiful. Innocent. ‘Lockyerville is entirely gone, of course. Not even the graves remain. Beyond that, the landscape has been scraped clean of human traces across perhaps twenty kilometres. Nothing is left of those who lived here for generations, or any of their works.
-Xeelee: Vengeance, Ch. 35