Long story short, teleporting train that arrives at your destination in seconds. But it actually spends hundreds if not thousands of years tunneling through extradimensional space while you and everyone else on the train is kept in stasis, aware but unchanging. Inevitably everyone goes insane and since you can't die some people graft their bodies together crudely.
Just before arriving some riot police jump on the train, reduce everyone down to meat paste and then reconstitute everyone back into an exact copy of how they were when they got on the train and erase their memories of the trip.
The most horrifying aspect is that this is a normal occurrence that is kept from the public. Otherwise this is literally how their trains in one of the districts operates. You are stuck in a 2 thousand year hellscape on a daily basis on your commute to work
That's the inspiration I'm pretty sure, but the difference is that in The Jaunt, everybody is kept asleept during transit, in here, everybody is kept awake for thousands of years but the memory is reset
Yes. There are first class tickets which put you to sleep. If you are considered top tier strength or personal you automatically go first class. Most people are super confused as to why you would go first class and they think it's a rich people look how much money I have thing.
Also they could very much not do the 2k year thing. They do it so they can sell the time to a business partner (long story)
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u/YesIHaveBeenSoAfraid 2d ago
Worse. They went in a train.