[ WP ] Write the last paragraph of a science fiction epic .

The rich minerals in the dirt of the freshly mounded graves glimmered in the last of the light. Those who remained of the landing party gripped hands around their carefully constructed cairns and sang hymns of praise to those who had sacrificed for the survival of the group. Some cried. Others stared ahead. But all sang to celebrate the lives lost and the lives to come. The notes of the hymn faded with the final setting of the Omega Sun. The landing party kept grips on each other for the walk to their encampment. The first light of the Alpha Sun was just hours away and that meant a new day and new uncertainties.
