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Speaker 1: Hello, I'm welcomed stories all the time. The glad you

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are here. Let's get into it. The stars looked the

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same as they always when Captain Marcus Web stowed out

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from the bridge of this promise is cold, distant, and

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filled with promise. He never thought this routine serve emission

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would be his last town seeing them as a normal

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human being. Captain were approaching the target coordinates, reported Lieutenant

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so Him from her navigation station. Her first carried the

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excitement that always came with reaching a new star system.

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After three years of deep space travel, the crew still

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felt that throw when they found something new. Web nodded

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and walked to the center of the bridge around He

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and his officers worked at their stations with the quiet

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efficiency they came from years of training and months of

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working together in a black void between stars. The Prometheus

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was as most advanced ship built for long range exploration

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beyond the known boundaries of human space. What do our

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since is show where bath the system? As seven planets?

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Captain Tim replied, studying her displaced reop in the habitable zone.

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No immediate signs of intelligent life, but were detecting some

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unusual energy readings from the fourth planet. Web felt a

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familiar tinkle of curiosity. That was why they were out here.

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After all, Earth had joined the Galactic Confederation only fifty

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eight years ago, making humanity one of the newest members

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of the vast alliance of alien civilizations. Most of the

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galaxy had been mapped and claimed by older races like

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the Zipians with their mastery of energy, or the Corfex,

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who could reshaped living matter like clay. Humans were still

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the newcomers, still proving themselves worthy of a place among

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the stars. The Confederation had given Earth a small territory

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on the galact Aquarrin to explore and develop. It was

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much compared to the vast empires of the elder races,

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but it was home. Take us and for a closer look,

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were bordered and notified. The science teams tell doctor Martinez,

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we might have something interesting for her. The Prometheus moved

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deeper into the system, its engines humming with barely contained power.

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Webb watched the main screen as the fourth planet grew larger.

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It was a barren world, all red rock and deep canons,

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but their censors were picking up energy signatures that didn't

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match anything in their databases. Do doctor Elina Martinez arrived

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on the bridge forteen minutes later, her dark hair tied

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back and her eyes bright with scientific curiosity. She had

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been studying senor geology for most of her adult life,

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hoping to find traces of the ancient civilizations that once

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filled the galaxy before the current powers rose to dominance.

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What do we have, Captain, she asked, moving to the

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science station. Unknown energy patterns from the surface. Web replied,

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could be natural phenomena, but the reading's unlike anything we've

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seen before. Martinez studded the data scrolling across her screen.

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A frown deepened with each passing second. Captain, these readings.

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They are not matching any known energy types. The patterns

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are too regular to be natural, but they don't fit

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any technology in our daya basis either. Webb felt that

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familiar mix of excitement and caution that came with real discovery.

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Could it be from one of the elder races, something

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they left behind, possibly, Martina said, but she didn't sound convince.

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I'd need to get closer to be sure, maybe send

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down the survey team. Before Webb could respond, the ship

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shuddered slightly. It was barely noticeable, just a small vibration

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that ran through the hull. But on a ship like

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the Prometheus built to handle the stresses of deep space travel,

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any unexpected movement was caused for concern. Engineering report Web

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called out, we're showing some unusual readings done here, Captain,

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came the voice of Chief engineer Thompson over the come,

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nothing dangerous, but our quantum field generators are acting strange,

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like their responding to something external. Webb and Martinez exchanged glances.

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The quantum field generators were what allowed the Promethist to

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travel faster than light. They created a bubble of altered

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space time around the ship, letting it slip between the

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normal dimensions, where the speed of light was just a

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suggestion rather than a law. Could the energy source on

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the plan of be affecting our systems? Webb asked, it's possible.

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Martinez replied, some of the ancient races had technology that

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could manipulates base time directly. If this is a remnant

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of their civilization, dot dot. She didn't finish the sentence,

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but Web understood the ancient races were gone now, their

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empires fall into time and war, but their technology was

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still scattered across the galaxy and most of it was

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far beyond anything the current civilizations could understand was safely use.

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Take us to a safetyame stons Web ordered, we'll observe

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from ubit, and the ship shuddered again, more violently. This time.

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The lights on the bridge flickered, and several warning alarms

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began to sound. Webb grabbed the arm of his command

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chair as the deck tilted beneath his feet. Captain Lieutenant

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Kim called out, her voice, tight with panic. Something's wrong

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with our navigation systems. The quantum field is fluctuating wildly.

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Webb looked at the main screen and felt his blood

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turned eyes. The stars were moving, not the slow, steady

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movement of a ship changing course, but a violent, twisting

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motion that made his eyes hurt to watch. The familiar

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constellations were stretching and bending, like reflections in disturbed water.

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I'll stop, he shouted, chuted down the quantum generators and trying.

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Captain Thompson's voice came through the com strained with effort.

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But they are not responding to commands. It's like something

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else is controlling them. The ship shook again, hard of

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this time. Through the bridge windows, Webb could see space

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itself seeming to ripple and fold around them. The planet

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below was becoming storted itself, is stretching into impossible shapes.

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Doctor Martinez was working frantically at her station, her fingers

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flying over the controls. Captain the energy source in the planet.

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It's not technology. It's some kind of dimensional anomaly, a

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weak point in space time itself. Webb felt that she'll

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run down a spine dimensional anomalies with theoretical constructs that

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most scientists believed were impossible. They were supposed to be

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tears in the fabric of reality itself, places where the

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normal laws of physics broke down if one actually existed.

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Dot Dot Dot duck. Can we break free? He asked,

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I don't think so, Martinez replied, her voice verily above

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a whisper. We're being pulled into it. Whatever this thing is,

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it's drawing us in. The ship grown around them. As

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forces beyond human understanding took hold of the Prometheus. Webb

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watched helplessly as the stars outside continued their impossible dance,

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stretching into long streamers of light that hoped to look

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at directly dot. He thought about the eight hundred forty

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seven people aboard his ship, scientists, engineers, support staff, and

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their families, people who had volunteered for a five year

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mission to explore the unknown reaches of space. They had

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signed up for adventure and discovery, not for whatever was

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happening to them now. Dan a distress signal were bordered

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full power, all frequencies already trying capain, came the reply

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from the communications officer, But I don't think any one

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will receive it. Space around us is too distorted. Whbegripped

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his command she had tighter. As the ship was pulled

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deeper into the anomaly. The hull was making sounds he

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had never heard before, metal groaning understresses it was never

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designed to handle. But some other ship was holding together

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through the chaos. He heard doctor Martinez speaking quietly to herself,

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reading off numbers from her instruments. The dimensional barriers are

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collapsing around us, were falling through layers of reality. But

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didn't understand what that meant, but the tone of her

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voice told him everything he needed to know. They were

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going somewhere that no human ship had ever gone before,

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somewhere that might not even exist in the same universe

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they called home. The last thing he saw before for

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the walls of reality closed around them was Earth's Sun

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visible as a tiny point of light millions of miles away.

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Then even that was gone, swallowed by the twisted space

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time that was dragging a Prometheus into the unknown. The

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ship fell through dimensions that had no names, carrying its

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human cargo toward a realm where the very concept of

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existence would be redefined behind them in normal space, the

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dimensional and nominally glapsed and disappeared, leaving no trace that

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the SV Prometheus had ever been there at all. For

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three years, Earth search fleet scoured the sector where the

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Prometheus had vanished. They found nothing, no debris, no energy signatures,

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no clues about what had happened to one of humanity's

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most advanced ships, in the eight hundred forty seven Souls

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Aboard Hower. Eventually the search was called off. The SV

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Prometheus was officially listed as lost with all hands, another

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casualty of humanity's bold push in to the dangerous and

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known of deep space. Memorial services were held. Famili's grieved

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life went on. In the years that followed, Humanity continued

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its careful expansion into the galaxy. S Colonists grew slowly

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but steadily, always mindful of their places as junior members

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of the Galactic Confederation. The major their powers tolerated human

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expansion as long as it didn't interfere with their own interests.

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The Cephrians control vast energy networks that spend multiple star systems.

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The Gorthas had perfected biological technology that let them reshape

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living matter at the molecular level. The ancient Veil manipulated

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quantum forces that most races couldn't even detect, let alone understand.

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Compared to such powers, humanities achievement scene small. They had

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achieved faster than light travel independently, which earned them some respect,

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but their technology was still primitive by galactic standards. F

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provided raw materials and served as a curiosity for the

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older races, who found human adaptability interesting but not particularly threatening.

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Nobody expected the missing exploration ship to return. Nobody was

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prepared for what it would become during its fifteen year

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journey through impossible realms, and nobody could have predicted that

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humanity's lost children would come home as something far more

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dangerous than anyone in the galaxy could imagine. The ESV

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Prometheus was gone, lost in the space between realities, but

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something else was coming back. Wearing its name and carrying

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its crew, Something that had learned secrets for Galaxy was

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not ready to face. Admirals Ayri Channel was reviewing supply

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reports in her office aboard the Earth Defense Station when

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the emergency alarms began to sound. She had been Humanities

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Representative to the Galactic Defense Council for eight years now,

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and in all that time she had never heard the

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station's priority alert system activate. The Sun cut through the

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normal hum of activity like a knife. Red light flashed

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in the corridors outside her office. As crew members rushed

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to their emergency stations. Sun dropped her data pad and

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headed straight for the command center, her mind already running

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through possible threats reports, she called out. As she entered

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the bustling command room. Commander Jackson looked up from his station,

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his face pale with confusion. Admiral were detecting a massive

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spatial distortion at the edge of the Soul System. Something

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big just appeared out of nowhere. Monitoring stations throughout the system,

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what she saw made no sense at all. There was

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a tier in space itself, roughly circular, and several kilometers across.

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The edges of the tier rippled like water. And strange

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energies poured out of and patterns that made this sense.

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It's malfunction. How is that possible? John asked, Space doesn't

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just tear open unknown? Admiral Jackson replied, but something's coming

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for As they watched, a shape began to emerge from

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the impossible rift. At first, it was just a dark

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outline against the swirling energies, but as it moved closer

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to normal space, Chen could see that it was a ship,

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a human ship, though something about its design looked wrong.

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Can you identify the vessel? She asked dot Jackson worked

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at his console for several seconds before looking up with

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an expression of disbelief. Admiral, the computer is saying it's

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the s V Prometheus, but that's impossible. The Prometheus was

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lost fifteen years ago. Shun felt her heart skip a beat.

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She remembered the Prometheus well. It had been Earthpright, the

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most advanced exploration vessel ever built, when it disappeared during

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a routine survey mission. The loss had been devastating, both

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militarily and emotionally. The ship had carried nearly a thousand people,

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including families of the crew members. Are you certain, she asked,

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the hull configuration matches, Jackson said, but his voice was uncertain.

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But Admiral, the ship looks sought not different. The senses

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are having trouble getting clear readings, but the hull seems

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to be covered in materials we don't recognize, and the

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energy signature is unlike anything in our databases. John started

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the main screen as the ship that claimed to be

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the Promethiust move steadily toward the inner System. It was

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definitely human in design, with the distinctive elongated hull and

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rotating habitat sections that marked outh steep space vessels. But

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Jackson was ripe. Something was very wrong with it. The

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hull showed signs of damage and repair, but the materials

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used in the repays didn't look like anything human technology

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could produce. Strange geometric patterns covered sections of the ship,

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designs that seemed to shift and change when she looked

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at them directly, and most disturbing of all, the ship

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was moving without any visible propulsion system. Admiral came a

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voice from the communication station. We're receiving reports from monitoring

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stations throughout the system. The ship's presence is caused wide

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spread electronic interference several stations have reported complete sense of

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failures Sean Frown. The Galactic Confederation maintained monitoring stations throughout

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the Sole system as part of their standard security protocols.

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These stations used to chnology far more advanced than anything

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Earth possess. If they were experiencing failures, whatever was aboard

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the ship was beyond current understanding. Have we tried to

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make contact, she asked, yes, Admiral, but there has been

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no response. The communications officer replied, all frequencies are either

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being blocked or the ship simply isn't receiving our signals.

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Chum watched the ship continuous approach. It was moving at

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a steady pace that would bring it to Earth in

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approximately six hours. The trajectory was perfect, as if the

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ship knew exactly where it was going, despite having no

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apparent navigation systems active. Get me a direct line to

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Galactic Defense Command, she ordered. They need to know about

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this immediately. Within minutes, Chen was speaking with Admiral Vexxide Zephian,

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who served as the current head of the Galactic Defense counciled.

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A zephy in senergy based form flickered on the communication screen.

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Its patterns of light shifting with what Chen had learned

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to recognize as concern. Admiral Chan Vex's translated voice Kane

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through the speakers, We are already aware of the situation.

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Our long range senses detected to spatial and normally won't appear.

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What can you tell us about this vessel? It appears

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to be one of our lost exploration ships, Chan replied carefully.

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The s V Prometheus missing for fifteen years, but something

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is clearly wrong with it. The patterns of light that

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made up Vex High's form pulls rapidly, indicating deep thought.

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A human vessel returning after fifteen years with unknown modifications.

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This is most concerning. We are dispatching a task forced

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to investigate Sun felt a moment of alarm. Falactic Defense

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task forces were not sent to investigate. They were sent

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to neutralized threats. Admiral, with respect, this is still human vessel.

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We should be allowed to make first contact negative, vex

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High reply. The energy signatures from the ship are unlike

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anything we have encountered. Until we understand what we are

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dealing with, it must be treated as a potential Threaticalactic security.

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The communication ended, leaving Chan staring at blank screen. She

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understood vex High's position, but the thought of alien worships

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moving to intercept a human vessel made her deeply uncomfortable,

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specially one that might contain survivors from the Prometheus. Commander Jackson,

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she said, turning back to her tactical officer. How long

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until the Confederation task Force arrives based on their usual

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response times, approximately four rows? Admiral Jackson replied. The Prometheus

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will reach Earth orbit about two hours after that. Chun

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nodded grimly. She had four hours to figure out what

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was happening before the most powerful military forces in the

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galaxy descended on her home system. Four arrows to make

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contact with the ship that had been missing for fifteen

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years are now defied every law physics she knew. Keep

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trying to establish communication, she ordered, and get me everything

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we have on the Prometheus mission. I want to know

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exactly what they were doing when they disappeared. Ass staff

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rushed to carry out her orders. Chun continued to stare

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at the main screen. The ship that might be the

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Prometheus continued its steady approach, still showing now signs of

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act of propulsion, but moving with purpose. Tes order. Two

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hours later, her communication attempts finally received a response. This

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is Captain Marcus Webb of the s V Prometheus requesting

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a media conference with Earth Defense Command and collected Council representatives.

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Shohn felt a chill run down her spine. She had

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known Marcus Web personally before his disappearance. They had served

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together early in their careers, and she remembered his voice clearly.

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But the voice coming through the speakers was different. Somehow.

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It had the same tone and inflection, but there was

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something underneath it that didn't sound quite human. Captain Webb,

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she replied, trying to keep her voice steady, This is Admiral,

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sir chan or if Defense Command we show you as

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missing for fifteen years, what is your status? There was

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a long pause before Web responded. Time flows differently where

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we have been, Admiral, we have much to discuss, but

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not over open channels. We are aware of the approaching

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Confederation Task Force. This is acceptable. Chun exchanged glances with

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her staff. How could the Prometheus know about the task Force.

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The censors should not have been able to detect ship

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still liars away, specially ships using Galactic Confederation stealth technology. Captain,

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we need to verify your identity in the status of

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your crew, Chan said, can you provide current personnel council

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mission status. All eight hundred forty seven souls aboard the

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Promethees remain alive and functional. Web replied the word functional

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struck Chan as an our choice, However, we have undergone

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significant changes during our time away. We request immediate audience

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with appropriate authorities to discuss matters of galactic security. Galactic security,

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Chan asked, Captain, what exactly happened to you out there?

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Another a long pause. When Web spoke again, his voice

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carried what sounded like infinite sadness. We learn things, Admiral,

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things about the nature of reality that will change everything.

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We did not choose to become what we are now,

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but the choice was made for us by necessity. En

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Fortuen could ask what he meant. Alarms began sounding throughout

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the command center. Her tactical displays lit up with new contacts.

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As the Confederation tell Us Force dropped out of faster

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than light travel at the edge of the system, Admiral

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Commander Jackson called out his voice tided retention. The task

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force consists of twelve heavy cruisers and four dreadnoughts. They

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are moving to intercept the Prometheus. Chen watched as the

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most powerful warships and the galaxy took up positions around

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the approaching human vessel. Each of those ships carried enough

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five part level of planet, and their commanders would not

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hesitate to use at ahipacy of the threat. Captain Webb,

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she said into her communicator, you need to understand that

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you are now surrounded by Confederation warships. Any hostile action

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will result in your immediate destruction. We understand, Admirrel Web replied,

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and there was something in his voice that might have

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been amusement. We harbor no hostile and tend toward the

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Confederation forces. However, they may wish to maintain safe distance

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from our vessel. What do you mean by safe distance,

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Chawn asked. Her answer came not from Webb, but from

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her own sense or operators. Admiral one of them called

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out panic evident in his voice. The Confederation ships are

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reporting massive system failures. Electronics are shutting down across her

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entire fleet. Kin looked at her displays in horror as

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one by one, the most advanced warships in the galaxy

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went dark. Their engine shut down, their weapons powered down,

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and their communication systems went silent. Within minutes, succeeen of

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the most powerful vessels ever built were drifting helplessly in space.

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Captain Webb, Chun said, her voice barely above a whisper.

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What have you done? Nothing intentionally, Admiral Webb replied, our

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presence has unfortunate effects on technology not designed to handle

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certain types of energy. This is why we must speak

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with your leaders immediately. There are things coming that make

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our little demonstration he seen Treville by comparison. Chun stared

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at the main screen, where the Prometheus continued it approach

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to Earth. The ship that had left human spase fifteen

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years ago as an exploration vessel had returned to something

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that could disable and entire Confederation battle fleet simply by

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existing near them. Whatever had happened to the crew of

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the Prometheus during their time in the unknown, they were

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no longer entirely human, and af Webb was telling the

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truth about things coming that were worse than what they

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had become. Then the entire galaxy was in more danger

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than anyone realized. The Prometheus was coming home, but the

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question that terrified John was whare at home? Would survived

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their return? The ESV Prometheus took position in high Earth

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orbit exactly where Captain Web said it would, ignoring the

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disabled Confederation fleet drifting helplessly around it. Admiral Chun watched

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from the Earth Defence Station as the ship that should

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have been familiar looked increasingly alien with each passing ire

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the whole modifications more extensive than their long range censors

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had indicated. Sections of the ship seemed to FaZe in

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an out of visibility, as if they existed only partially

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in normal space. Strange geometric patterns cover the entire vessel,

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designs that her to look it directly, and seemed to

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move when observed from different angles. Admiral Commander Jackson reported,

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his voice drained. We were receiving multiple reports of electronic

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malfunctions throughout the system, everything from personal communicators to industrial computers.

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The closer they are to the Prometheus, the worse the

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failures become. Chun nodded grimly. The ship's presence was affecting

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technology across had the Solar System. Even their own station

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position much farther away, was experiencing into Midden system failures.

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Whatever energy to Prometheus was putting out, it was fundamentally

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incompatible with normal electronics. Had the Confederation ships regained any functionality,

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she asked, negative, Admiral, They're completely dead in space. Their

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crews are alive, but they are having to use back

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up life support systems that were designed to work without

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computer assistants. Jun looked out through the observation windows toward

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Earth below. The planet looked peaceful. From this distance. It

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splew and white surface are marked by the crisis in

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folding in orbit, but she knew the down on the surface,

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billions of people were beginning to experience the same electronic

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failures that had crippled the alien warships. Admiral Chan came

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Captain Webb's voice over the communication system. We are ready

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to receive your delegation. However, we recommend that your representatives

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bring no electronic devices. They will not function aboard our vessel.

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Chun had been dreading this moment. Meeting face to face

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with what head of the crew of the Prometheus had

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become was necessary, but the thought of boarding that ship

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filled her with unease. Still, as Earth's senior representative, the

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responsibility was hers. Captain Webb, I'll come aboard personally with

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a small diplomatic team. She replied, but I need to

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know what precautions we should take. No special preparations are required,

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Admiral Web said, and once again there was that strange

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quality to his voice that didn't sound entirely human. We

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remain who we were, though we have become more than

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we were. You will understand when you see us. Two

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hours later, Jan found herself aboard a small shuttlecraft approaching

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to Prometheus. The shuttle was one of the older models

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that relied more on mechanical systems than computerized ones, but

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even it was showing signs of malfunction as they drew

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closer to the mysterious ship. With her were doctor Elizabeth Foster,

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Earth's leadings and no biologists, and Commander David Torres, a

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military specialist in first contact procedures. All three wore simple

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environmental suits without any electronic components. Admiral Torres said, as

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they approached the Prometheus docking bay. I've never seen anything

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like the ship's energy signature. Our instruments coun't even classify

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what type of power sources. Using Chun could see what

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he meant through the shuttle small windows, the Prometheus looked

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more like a living thing than the starship. The hull

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scened to pulse with internal light, and the geometric patterns

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covering its surface shifted and flowed like living tissue. And

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just remember, she told her team, these are still human beings,

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whatever has happened to them, They were once our people.

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The docking bay of the Prometheus opened to receive them,

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but instead of the mechanical doors chun expected, the opening

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seemed to simply appear in the hull, like a mouth

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opening and living flesh. The shuttle settled on to a

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landing platform that looked normal enough, though the metal had

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a strange rainbow sheen that hadn't been there fifteen years ago.

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Dot As they disembarked, Jun immediately noticed that the air

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inside the ship felt different. It was breathable, but it

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seemed to carry a faint electrical charge that made the

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hair on her arms stand up. The gravity was normal,

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but her inner ear kept insisting that up and down

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went quite what they should be. Welcome aboard the Prometheus,

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Admiral Chan turned toward the voice and had to struggled

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to step backward in shock. The man approaching them was

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definitely Marcus Webb, but he had changed in ways that

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went beyond simple aging. He looked exactly as he had

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fifteen years ago, not a day older, but his eyes

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had depths that seemed to go on forever. When he moved,

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it was with a fluid grace that didn't look entirely natural.

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Behind him came other members of the crew, and Sheen

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felt her breath cash in her throat. Like Webb, they

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showed no signs of aging, but each of them had

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been changed in subtle ways. Some seemed to shimmer slightly,

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as if they weren't entirely solid. Others moved in ways

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that defied normal human coordination, taking steps that should have

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been impossible given the laws of physics. Captain Webb Chan said,

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forcing herself to maintain military bearing despite her shock. It's

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good to see you alive, all of you. Webb smiled,

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and for a moment he looked like the man she

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had known years ago. It's good to see you too, Sarah,

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though I suspect you'll find our reunion less pleasant than

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you might have hoped. He just stured for them to

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follow him deeper into the ship. As they walked, Chun

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noticed that the corridors of the Prometheus had been extensively modified,

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The walls were covered with the same geometric patterns they

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had seen on the hull, designs that seemed to move

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and shift when she was looking directly at them. What

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happened to you out there, Marcus, she asked quietly. Web

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was silent for a long moment as he led them

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through corridors that seemed to stretch farther than should have

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been possible given the ship's eyes. We fell for a

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crack in reality, Sarah, into place where the rules that

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govern our universe don't apply. They entered what had once

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been the ship's main conference room, though it too had

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been changed. The table was still there, but it seemed

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to be made of a material that was simultaneously metal

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and crystal and something else entirely. The chairs appeared normal

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until Chun sat in one and realized it was adjusting

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itself to her body in ways that felt almost alive.

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You said you fell for a crack, doctor Fosster, spoke

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up her scientific curiosity, overcoming obvious nervousness, What do you mean?

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Webb sat across from them, and when he did, Chun

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curbs warn she saw other versions of him sitting in

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the same chair, ghosely images that overlapped with his real form.

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The dimensional anomaly we encountered was natural, he explained. It

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was a wounded space time. Its created by beings that

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exist outside our normal reality. Outside our reality, Commando Tours asked,

476
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,799
that's impossible. Webb's smile was sad and knowing. We used

477
00:25:10,839 --> 00:25:13,680
to think so too. But the universe is far larger

478
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,880
and more complex than any of us imagined. Our galaxy,

479
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,640
our entire dimension, is just one bubble in an infinite

480
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,839
foam of realities. And in the spaces between those bubbles,

481
00:25:22,839 --> 00:25:25,279
there are things that make our most advanced civilizations look

482
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,359
like children playing with toys. Heine felt a chill run

483
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,160
down her spine. Are you saying you met these beings?

484
00:25:31,759 --> 00:25:35,000
We call them the Architect's web reply. They exist partially

485
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,599
outside of normal space time, which allows them to manipulate

486
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,079
reality in ways that seem impossible to us. When we

487
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,559
fail through the dimensional crack, we landed in their realm.

488
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Doctor Foster leaned forward, her eyes bright with scientific fascination

489
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,559
despite her of sphere. What did they do to you?

490
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,200
Web was quiet for a moment, as Shen could see

491
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,720
pain in his ancient young eyes. They saved us. Our

492
00:25:54,759 --> 00:25:58,640
ship was falling apart. Our crew was dying. The dimensional

493
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,359
transition had damaged us in ways that normal physics couldn't heal.

494
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So they changed us. Changed how Sean asked. Webb stood

495
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up and walked to the far wall of the conference room.

496
00:26:09,039 --> 00:26:11,799
As he approached it, the wall became transparent, showing them

497
00:26:11,839 --> 00:26:14,240
a view of Earth below. Now Ken could see that

498
00:26:14,279 --> 00:26:17,039
the image wasn't coming through a window, the wall itself

499
00:26:17,039 --> 00:26:20,440
had become a display. Responding to Webb's thoughts, they gave

500
00:26:20,519 --> 00:26:23,240
us the ability to exist partially outside normal space time.

501
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,880
Web explained. We can manipulate matter and energy directly with

502
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,480
our tools or machines. We can see across dimensions, perceive

503
00:26:30,519 --> 00:26:33,640
realities that exist alongside our own, But the price was

504
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,880
our humanity. One watched in fascination and horror as Webb

505
00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,279
placed his hand against the transparent wall and the entire

506
00:26:39,319 --> 00:26:42,119
section began to reshape itself, flowing like liquid metal before

507
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,000
solidifying internew patterns were still human in our minds and hearts,

508
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,720
Webb continued, but our borders, our very existence has been

509
00:26:49,759 --> 00:26:52,319
fundamentally altered. We can no longer age or die in

510
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,000
any conventional sense. We exist in multiple dimensions. Simultaneously, our

511
00:26:56,039 --> 00:26:59,079
presence dispups technology because we operate on principles that our

512
00:26:59,079 --> 00:27:01,599
machines can't understand. And why did they do this to you,

513
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,119
Torus asked. Web turned back to them, and this time

514
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,799
Chin could clearly see the multiple overlapping images of him,

515
00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:09,759
as if she were looking at several different versions of

516
00:27:09,799 --> 00:27:13,000
the same person existing in the same space. Because something

517
00:27:13,039 --> 00:27:16,519
is coming, Web said, simply something that the architects fear,

518
00:27:16,519 --> 00:27:18,759
which should terrify everyone in this galaxy. They call them

519
00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:22,319
the devirus. Doctor Falster frowned. The virus of what reality itself?

520
00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:25,359
Web replied, They exist in the void between dimensions, consuming

521
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,240
entire universes and leaving nothing behind the move from reality

522
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,720
to reality like a plague, destroying everything that exists. J

523
00:27:30,839 --> 00:27:32,839
nfelt her mouth got dry, and they're come in here.

524
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,079
The dimensional crack that we felt through wasn't an accident,

525
00:27:35,079 --> 00:27:36,920
Webb explained, It was a probe sent by the virus

526
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,319
to test the stability of our reality. They found us, serah,

527
00:27:39,319 --> 00:27:40,839
and they are come in. The room fell silent as

528
00:27:40,839 --> 00:27:43,039
the implications of Webb's words sunk in. Chun thought about

529
00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:46,440
the Galactic Confederation, with all its mighty civilizations and advanced technologies,

530
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,599
the Zephyrins with their energy manipulation, the Gothics with their

531
00:27:48,599 --> 00:27:51,400
biological mastery, to ancient Veil with their quantum technology, all

532
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,039
of it meaningless against beans that could consume reality itself.

533
00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:55,960
How long do you we have, she asked quietly. The

534
00:27:56,039 --> 00:27:58,400
architects don't measure time the way we do. Web replied,

535
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,400
but in terms he would understand, Perhaps, so a few

536
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,759
years may be less. And you're supposed to stop them,

537
00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:04,920
Torres asked. Web's laugh was bitter and huller. We was

538
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,519
supposed to try. The architects changed us in something that

539
00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:10,480
can fight concepts with concepts, reality with the reality, where

540
00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:13,319
humanity's first line of defense against the impossible. Doctor Foster

541
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,200
was studying Web intently, her scientific mind clearly struggling to

542
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,039
process what she was hearing. The electronic interference, the way

543
00:28:19,079 --> 00:28:22,200
you can manipulate matter, thesosie effects of your transformation. Partly,

544
00:28:22,319 --> 00:28:25,160
Web nodded, we exist in multiple dimensions now, which means

545
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,480
we interact with your technology in ways it wasn't designed

546
00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:29,359
to handle. But it's also a sign of what's coming.

547
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,880
When the divirus arrive, they'll disrupt reality on a much

548
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,480
larger scale. Kune stood up slowly, her mind reeling from

549
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,000
everything she had learned Marcus. He said, All eight hundred

550
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,759
forty seven of your crucified were out and outspread throughout

551
00:28:39,759 --> 00:28:42,319
the ship, learning to control the new abilities. Web replied,

552
00:28:42,359 --> 00:28:44,400
some are having an easier time adapting than others. Of

553
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,119
the children seem to adjust fastest, which the architect said

554
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,559
was expected to the children. Chan repeated, thinking about the

555
00:28:49,599 --> 00:28:52,039
families that have been aboard the Prometheus, a stale children

556
00:28:52,079 --> 00:28:54,640
in spirit, Web said, but they've been changed just like

557
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,920
the rest of us. In some ways, they're better adapted

558
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,920
to our new existence than the adults. They don't fight

559
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,000
against what they've become. Chun looked around the impossible conference room,

560
00:29:02,039 --> 00:29:04,279
at the walls that responded to thought, and the furniture

561
00:29:04,279 --> 00:29:06,839
that seemed alive. She thought about the disabled Confederation fleet

562
00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:10,319
floording helplessly outside, victims of technology that operated on principles

563
00:29:10,319 --> 00:29:13,079
beyond the understanding, what do you need from us? She asked. Finally,

564
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,200
Webb's expression grew serious time. Primarily, we need to prepare

565
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,480
Earth and the Confederation for it. What's coming. The devirus

566
00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:21,519
can't be fought with conventional weapons or traditional tactics will

567
00:29:21,519 --> 00:29:24,079
need every advantage we can get. Then the Confederation verses

568
00:29:24,119 --> 00:29:26,599
will need to accept that humanity has changed, Chun said,

569
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,160
understanding the political implications more than that. Web replied, they'll

570
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,400
need to accept that we've become something beyond their ability

571
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,599
to control or understand. Some races will see us as

572
00:29:34,599 --> 00:29:36,599
a threat that needs to be eliminated. Others will try

573
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,720
to use us for their own purposes. Chann nodded grimly.

574
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,640
She could already imagine the chaos that would errupt when

575
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,160
the needs of the Prometheses return spread throughout the galaxy. Panic,

576
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,920
political maneuvering, and probably attempts to Captchu or destroy. The

577
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,400
ship and its crew will help however we can, s

578
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,079
she promise, But Marcus, I have to ask, are you

579
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,519
still human enough to care about saving humanity? Web looked

580
00:29:51,559 --> 00:29:53,359
at her with those ancient eyes that had seen things

581
00:29:53,359 --> 00:29:55,680
beyond normal reality, and for a moment his smile was

582
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,079
purely human. Sarah, we may have become something else, but

583
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,640
we're still human where it matters most. I'll remember what

584
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,519
it means to love, to hope, to fight for something

585
00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:05,000
bigger than I resolves. That's why we came home outside

586
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,079
the ship hath continued its ancient rotation, unaware that its

587
00:30:08,079 --> 00:30:11,119
lost children had returned as something beyond human understanding, carrying

588
00:30:11,119 --> 00:30:12,599
news of a dread that could end everything that had

589
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,079
ever existed. The real test was just beginning three days

590
00:30:15,119 --> 00:30:18,519
after Admiral Chran's meeting with Captain, where emergency sessions were

591
00:30:18,519 --> 00:30:20,920
being held in government buildings across the galaxy. The news

592
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,839
of the Promethees' return had spread quickly to confederation channels,

593
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,119
causing panic and confusion among the major powers. Dot In

594
00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:28,640
the Great Crystal Halls of the Zephyrian Empire, energy beings

595
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,240
flickered with patterns that srre deep distress. The Zephyrians had

596
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,519
built their civilization and the mastery of electromagnetic forces, but

597
00:30:34,519 --> 00:30:36,559
the human ship's mere presence had it down their most

598
00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:39,599
advanced technologist. If humans could do this accidentally, what did

599
00:30:39,599 --> 00:30:42,039
it mean for Ziphrian dominance? Aren't The bioballs of the

600
00:30:42,079 --> 00:30:45,000
Kothax collective living computers that served as their government councils

601
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,839
were struggling to process the implications. Their entire society was

602
00:30:47,839 --> 00:30:50,599
based on the manipulation of biological systems, But the reports

603
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,240
from the Prometheus suggested tchnology that went far beyond anything

604
00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:56,400
they understood. Even the ancient failed masters of quantum manipulation,

605
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,200
who rarely concerned themselves with the younger races, were calling

606
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,359
emergency gatherers and dimensions that other species couldn't even perceive.

607
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,640
Admiral Jean stood in the main conference room a Versus

608
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,680
government center, watching the chaos and fold on communications screens

609
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,960
from around the galaxy. President Morrison sat at the head

610
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of the table, her face pale with the weight of

611
00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:15,279
decisions that could determine humanity's future. Admiral President Morrison said,

612
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,240
give me your assessment. How are we looking at a

613
00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,160
threat or an opportunity? Chang chows her words carefully. Both,

614
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Madam President, Captain Webb and his crew represent capabilities beyond

615
00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:25,839
anything in our current understanding. But they are stole human

616
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,359
and they error of warning us about a threat that

617
00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:30,759
makes their abilities seem small by comparison. The devious Morrison said,

618
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,480
pronouncing the world like acas. Do you believe Webb's claims

619
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,759
about these beings? Before Chen could answer, one of the

620
00:31:35,799 --> 00:31:38,599
communication screens lit up with an incoming priority message from

621
00:31:38,599 --> 00:31:42,599
the Galactic Defense Council. Admiral Vexiyest energy form appeared as Padins,

622
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,240
more agitated than Chen had ever seen, President Morrison vex

623
00:31:45,319 --> 00:31:47,880
High said, without preamble, the Confederation Council has reached a

624
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,279
decision regarding the human vessel in your system. It must

625
00:31:50,279 --> 00:31:53,160
be destroyed before its technology conspired to other species. John

626
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,519
felt her blood turn to ice. Admiral vex High that

627
00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:58,519
ship contains nearly a thousand human citizens. They are not hostile,

628
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Their intentions are irrelevant. Vex High replied, the technology to

629
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,799
possessed represents a fundamental threat to galactic stability. How finest

630
00:32:04,799 --> 00:32:07,359
ships were disabled by their mere presence. If other species

631
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,079
gained access to such capabilities, it would destroy the balance

632
00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:12,839
of power that has maintained peace for censuries. President Morrison

633
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,799
leaned forward, her voice dilly calm, Admiral Wherey declaring war

634
00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:19,000
onor Vex's energy patterns flickered with what might have been uncertainty.

635
00:32:19,119 --> 00:32:21,640
We prefer a diplomatic solution. Surrendered the vessel and its

636
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,440
crew for study, and Earth will be granted significant territorial

637
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,759
concessions in return study. Chen repeated, her voice filled with disgusted,

638
00:32:27,799 --> 00:32:30,599
I mean dissection, that technology must be understood and controlled.

639
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:34,000
Vex High said, this is not negotiable. The communication ended abruptly,

640
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:35,960
leaving the room in tense silence. Chein could see the

641
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,079
fear in President Morrison's eyes, and she understood it completely,

642
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,519
as sintire military couldn't stand against a single confederation dreadnought,

643
00:32:42,519 --> 00:32:44,559
and now they were facing the combined might of multiple

644
00:32:44,559 --> 00:32:48,920
galactic civilizations. Options, Morrison asked quietly limited Turnel replied, we

645
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,200
could try to evacuate the Prometheus crew, but I doubt

646
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:53,000
they leave their ship, and even if they did, where

647
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,240
could we hide nearly a thousand people with abilities that

648
00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:57,960
disrupt technology. The discussion was interrupted by a new voice

649
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,039
coming through the communication system. Was then Webb, speaking directed

650
00:33:01,079 --> 00:33:04,359
from the Prometheus. President Morrison, I apologize for interrupting, but

651
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,759
we need to speak immediately. Events are moving faster than

652
00:33:06,759 --> 00:33:09,240
we anticipated. Morrison looked at Chan, who nodded a captain

653
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that this is President Morrison. We're listening, madam. President were

654
00:33:12,319 --> 00:33:14,960
aware of the Confederation's ultimatum. We also know that three

655
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,240
separate fleets are currently moving toward the Sol System with

656
00:33:17,359 --> 00:33:19,839
orders to destroy us if we don't surrender, Chan Felderchell

657
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,599
their own intelligence hadn't detected any fleet movements yet, How

658
00:33:22,599 --> 00:33:25,119
could the Prometheus know about military actions before us, though

659
00:33:25,119 --> 00:33:28,240
in monitoring systems. Captain Morrison said, if you know about

660
00:33:28,279 --> 00:33:31,319
the fleets, then you must understand our position. Earth cannot

661
00:33:31,319 --> 00:33:34,319
fight the entire confederation, ath warned. Web replied, but we

662
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,599
need to show you something first, something that will change

663
00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:38,359
how you view this crisis. The air in the conference

664
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,920
room began to shimmer, and suddenly Captain Webb was standing

665
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,039
in the room with them, not as a hologram obrojection,

666
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,319
but fasically present, as if he had simply stepped through

667
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:48,000
the walls. President Morrison and his staff jumped back in alarm,

668
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,359
but Web raised his hands peacefully. I'm sorry for the

669
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,359
dramatic entrance, but time is short, may if. He jested

670
00:33:53,359 --> 00:33:55,599
toward the large display screen at the front of the room.

671
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Without waiting for a permission, he approached it and placed

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his hand against the surface. The screen flickered and chained,

673
00:34:00,279 --> 00:34:02,640
showing an image that made Chen's breath catch in her throat.

674
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,599
It was space, but not space as they knew it.

675
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Instead of the familiar backdrop of stars and galaxies, she

676
00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:09,079
was looking at something that resembled a vast from with

677
00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:11,800
countless bubble like structures. Floating in an endless void. Each

678
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,960
bubble contains word in lights and patterns that had to

679
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,079
look at directly. This is reality, Web explained, not just

680
00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:20,480
our universe, but all of existence. Each bubble represents a

681
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:24,320
complete dimensional layer, containing billions of galaxies and trillions of civilizations.

682
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The image umed in on one particular bubble, as Sheen

683
00:34:27,039 --> 00:34:29,840
could see that it contained familiar structures, the Milky Way Galaxy,

684
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,480
in Drameda Galaxy, and all the other stellar formations. She

685
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knew this is our dimensional layer, Web continued. Everything the

686
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Confederation knows, everything they've explored, all exists within the single bubble.

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For resident Morrison stared at a display in fascination and horror,

688
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A how many bubbles are there at infinite, Web replied simply,

689
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and in the space between them, in the void that

690
00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:50,280
separates one reality from another, live the devirus. The image

691
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,840
changed again, and showing dark shapes moving through the endness

692
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,760
between dimensional bubbles. They were difficult to focus on, seeming

693
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,400
to shift and change form constantly, but their purpose was clear.

694
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,320
As chen watch, one of the shapes of roached a

695
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,440
bubble of reality and began to feed on. The bubble

696
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,840
dimmed and shrunk as the creature consumed it, billions of

697
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,199
galaxies in countless civilizations, simply ceasing to exist. Within minutes,

698
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,880
an entire dimensional layer was gone, leaving nothing but empty

699
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:12,920
void where an infinity of wells had once been. They

700
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,639
consume reality itself, Webb explained, not just matter and energy,

701
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,679
but the very concept of existence. Everything that was, is

702
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,519
or could be in the dimension simply stopped being. Schuenfeldt sik.

703
00:35:22,679 --> 00:35:26,159
How many dimensions have they destroyed? Thousands, millions? The Architects

704
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have been fighting them for rions, but they can only

705
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,639
saw the divirus down, not stop them. That's why they

706
00:35:30,679 --> 00:35:33,360
changed us. The display shifted again, showing the dimensional crack

707
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,639
that had swallowed the Primethus fifteen years ago, but now

708
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Chen could see it from the Archaec's perspective as a

709
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,280
control breach designed to pull the human ship into their realm.

710
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,119
The crack wasn't random, Webb continued. The architects had been

711
00:35:43,119 --> 00:35:45,679
studying our galaxy for some time, looking for a species

712
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:47,719
that might be able to adapt to the changes necessary

713
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,199
to fight the divirus. They chose humanity. Why us? Morrison asked,

714
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:54,039
there are species in a galaxy with form or advanced technology?

715
00:35:54,159 --> 00:35:57,119
Webb smiled, Sadly, technology isn't what matters in this fight.

716
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,840
The divirus can simply decide that advanced technology doesn't exist

717
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,800
and it starts working. What matters is adaptability, creativity, and

718
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,119
the ability to accept impossible truth without losing sanity. He

719
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,920
judtured toward the display, which NAS showed emidges of various

720
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,880
Confederation species. The Zephyrans are masses of energy, but they

721
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,480
think in terms of electromagnetic principles that the virus can

722
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,239
simply ignore the code that's work with biological systems that

723
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,280
can be unmade with the thought, even the veil, for

724
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,280
all the quantum mastery are still bound by the laws

725
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,519
of physics and humans chinnast humans are chaotic, were replied,

726
00:36:26,559 --> 00:36:28,880
and there was pride in his voice. You adapt, improvise

727
00:36:29,039 --> 00:36:31,360
and find solutions that shouldn't work, but due anyway. You

728
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,760
can accept contradictions and paradoxes without breaking down. Most importantly,

729
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,840
he can hold on to you humanity, even when everything

730
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,639
around you becomes impossible. The conference room door burst open

731
00:36:39,639 --> 00:36:42,559
as one of Morrison's AD's rushed, Madam President, we're detecting

732
00:36:42,559 --> 00:36:45,559
massive energy signatures throughout the system. Something's happening, Web, not

733
00:36:45,639 --> 00:36:48,199
a grimy. The first scouts have arrived. The display screen

734
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,639
changed once more, showing that space around Earth at first

735
00:36:50,679 --> 00:36:53,039
turn couldn't see anything unusual. Then the stars began to

736
00:36:53,039 --> 00:36:55,159
flicker and dim, as if something was passing between them

737
00:36:55,199 --> 00:36:57,320
and the Solar System. Where are we looking at? Morrison

738
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:01,320
asked de Viros. Scouts, Web replied, exists partially outside normal

739
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,679
space time, which makes them difficult to detect with conventional senses.

740
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,559
But they're here testing our realities defenses. As they watched,

741
00:37:07,599 --> 00:37:10,199
sections of space began to distort the fromelio patterns of

742
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,880
stars and planets tisted into impossible shapes that may chance

743
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,559
eye water. Reality itself was being proved and tested by

744
00:37:15,559 --> 00:37:18,519
beings that existed in the spaces between existence. The Confederation

745
00:37:18,599 --> 00:37:21,400
fleets approaching our system wouldn't be able to fight these things,

746
00:37:21,519 --> 00:37:23,840
Web continued, Their weapons are designed to work within the

747
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,199
normal laws of physics. The Scouts can simply decide that

748
00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:29,320
these laws don't apply. President Morrison Gritiage of the conference table.

749
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:31,559
What do we do we show the galaxy what humanity

750
00:37:31,599 --> 00:37:33,800
has become, Web replied, and we hope they are wise

751
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,840
enough to accept our help instead of destroying us out

752
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,639
of fear. That display showed the approaching Confederation fleet free

753
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:42,440
massive formations of washps carrying enough fire Protocrat planets behind them,

754
00:37:42,559 --> 00:37:45,440
moving like shadows through dimensions the normal sensors couldn't detect.

755
00:37:45,639 --> 00:37:47,559
Came the Devirus Scouts. The fleets will be here in

756
00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:50,320
six iOS Web set. Scouts will test them first to

757
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,840
see how this dimensions and inhabitants respond to their presence.

758
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,840
Based on what they learn, the leader call from more

759
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,480
scouts will begin the process of fall invasion. Chann understood

760
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,880
the implications immediately. The Confederation fleets are going to be

761
00:38:00,119 --> 00:38:02,920
used as test subjects exactly Web nodded, and when conventional

762
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,559
weapons prove use US against the Scouts, Paddock will spread

763
00:38:05,599 --> 00:38:08,800
throughout the galaxy It civilizations will fall into chaos, making

764
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,199
the mesa prey for the main Vision force. Morrison stood

765
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,440
up a free set with determination, Captain Web, what do

766
00:38:14,559 --> 00:38:17,079
you need from permission to engage the scouts when they arrive?

767
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,320
Web applied and support when the Confederation demands answers for

768
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,719
what they are about to witness? You of both, Morrison said,

769
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,119
without testation, what about his have respectfully, thank you, Madam President,

770
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,840
but I should warn you what you're about to see

771
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,199
will change how the galaxy views humanity forever. We're no

772
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,920
longer just another young species struggling to find our place

773
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,239
among the stars. He began to fery from view, becoming

774
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,599
translacent as he prepared to return to his ship. Were

775
00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:39,760
about to become something that the older civilizations and the

776
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,159
galaxy will either worship of fear, and I'm not sure

777
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,280
which would be it was for our future. As Webb

778
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,159
disappeared completely, the display screen show of the Prometheus beginning

779
00:38:47,159 --> 00:38:48,760
to move from its position in Earth, or if the

780
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,159
ship's hull was glow and brighter now and the geometric

781
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,639
patterns covering its surface were shifting faster as if the

782
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,800
vessel was preparing for battle. Can watch the ship that

783
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,039
had once been Humanitys pride transform itself into something beyond recognition.

784
00:38:59,199 --> 00:39:01,519
Whatever happened in the next few hours would determine not

785
00:39:01,679 --> 00:39:03,880
just as fate, but the future of everythinking being in

786
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,760
the galaxy. The Scouts were coming, and Humanity's lost children

787
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,400
were the only things standing between reality and complete annihilation.

788
00:39:09,519 --> 00:39:11,559
The first Confederation fleet derived at the edge of the

789
00:39:11,639 --> 00:39:13,679
sol sysm just as the de Virus Scouts began their

790
00:39:13,679 --> 00:39:16,920
assault on reality itself. Admiral chammosch from the Earth Offense Station.

791
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,159
As space around the alien warships started to behave in

792
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,599
ways that violated every law of physics, she news. Starts

793
00:39:21,599 --> 00:39:23,880
flickered and went out, not because they were destroyed, but

794
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,280
because the scouts were deciding that they had never existed

795
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,039
in the first place. Planet shifted position without moving, purving

796
00:39:29,199 --> 00:39:32,559
multiple locations simultaneously. The very concept of distance became meaningless

797
00:39:32,559 --> 00:39:34,920
as ships found themselves millions of kilometers from where they

798
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,960
had been moments before. Admiral commanded. Jackson called out his voice,

799
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:41,159
Tide with panic. The Confederation fleet is reporting complete system failures.

800
00:39:41,199 --> 00:39:43,159
But it's not like what happened before with the Prometheus.

801
00:39:43,199 --> 00:39:46,320
Their ships are just stopping. Pyan understood what he meant

802
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:48,880
as she watched the displays greens the advanced alien warships

803
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,039
when being disabled by electromagnetic interference. They were simply season

804
00:39:52,079 --> 00:39:54,199
to function because the scouts were rewriting the local laws

805
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,239
of physics to make advance technology impossible. Where's the Prometheus,

806
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,280
she asked, moving to intercept. Jackson replied, but admir Our

807
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,880
senses can barely track it anymore. The ship keeps phasing

808
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,960
in and out of normal space. Through the observation windows,

809
00:40:05,079 --> 00:40:07,119
Chen could see flashes of light in the distances. The

810
00:40:07,159 --> 00:40:10,400
EESV Prometheus engaged enemies that existed only partially in their dimension.

811
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,639
The battle that was taking place to fired every principle

812
00:40:12,639 --> 00:40:15,360
of warfish she had ever learned. Captain Webb's voice came

813
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,960
through the communication system, but it sounded strange, as if

814
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,400
he were speaking from very far away. Admiral Chan were

815
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,039
engaging three scout entities. Be advised that reality in this

816
00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:26,199
region may become unstable during the fight, and stable Hapchun asked,

817
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,760
but she got her answer almost immediately. The stars outside

818
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,039
the station windows began to move in patterns that had

819
00:40:31,079 --> 00:40:33,519
to watch. Up and down lost all meanings, gravity shifted

820
00:40:33,559 --> 00:40:36,159
direction randomly. The metal walls of the station groaned under

821
00:40:36,199 --> 00:40:39,280
stresses that shouldn't desist, while computer systems throughout the facility

822
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,920
started displaying impossible data. On the main screen. Chen could

823
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,639
see the Confederation ship struggling to understand what was happening

824
00:40:44,679 --> 00:40:47,239
to them. The proad vessels of the galaxy's greatest civilizations

825
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,599
were helpless against an enemy that could simply decide their

826
00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:51,960
weapons didn't work in their engines could in function. Then

827
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,559
the Prometheus struck back. What happened next was impossible to

828
00:40:54,599 --> 00:40:57,000
describe in normal terms. The human ships seemed to multiply,

829
00:40:57,119 --> 00:41:00,320
existing in dozens of locations simultaneously while firing wehbres that

830
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,599
want made of matter or energy, but of pure concept.

831
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,599
Reality tisted around the battlefield as a transformed crew fought

832
00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:08,239
beings that existed in the spaces between thoughts. Watched as

833
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,920
one of the Devirus scouts simplicies to exist, not destroyed,

834
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,559
but convinced that it had never been real in the

835
00:41:12,599 --> 00:41:15,480
first place. Another scout tried to erase the Prometheus from existence,

836
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,559
but the ship refused to be a made as crews

837
00:41:17,559 --> 00:41:20,119
were holding their reality together through sheer determination. How are

838
00:41:20,119 --> 00:41:23,239
they doing that, doctor Foster asked, joining Chun at the

839
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,920
observation windows. The scientists had been monitoring the battle from

840
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:31,000
the research station. Their fighting impossibility with impossibility, Chan replied,

841
00:41:31,079 --> 00:41:34,800
beginning to understand what Web had meant. Scouts can rewrite reality,

842
00:41:35,039 --> 00:41:38,559
but so can the Prometheus crew. It's not about technology anymore.

843
00:41:39,199 --> 00:41:41,639
It's about who has the stronger will to decide what's real.

844
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,440
The battle raged for what felt like Io's but might

845
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,360
have been minutes or days time itself had become unreliable

846
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,079
in space, a random fighting Chan could see members of

847
00:41:51,079 --> 00:41:54,360
the Prometheus crew materialize in open space without protective suits.

848
00:41:54,639 --> 00:41:57,039
Their transformed bar is able to exist in environments that

849
00:41:57,079 --> 00:42:00,199
should have killed them instantly. One figure she recognized as

850
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,960
doctor Martinez, as an archaeologist who had been studying the

851
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,920
dimensional and normally when the ship first disappeared. But Martinez

852
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,039
was no longer entirely human. She existed as a pattern

853
00:42:09,079 --> 00:42:12,360
of living mathematics, using equations as weapons against Scouts that

854
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,920
tried to erase her from existence. Another crew member, chief

855
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,400
Engineer Thompson, had become something that looked like a mobile

856
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,239
constellation of stars. He reached into the holl of a

857
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:25,000
disabled Confederation ship and began repairing it by convincing its

858
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,159
atoms to remember what they were supposed to be. The

859
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,440
children of the Prometheus crew were the most changed of all.

860
00:42:30,039 --> 00:42:32,519
They moved through space like living thoughts, adapting to each

861
00:42:32,599 --> 00:42:36,280
new impossibility the Scouts created without fear or hesitation. Chan

862
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,639
watched a ten year old girl fister solid matter to

863
00:42:38,679 --> 00:42:40,920
reach a Scout entity and destroy it by imagining it

864
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,800
out of existence. They're not human any more, doctor Foster whispered,

865
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,840
but Chun could hear all rather than horror in her voice.

866
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,599
Note Chuan agreed, there's something more, something that can protect

867
00:42:51,639 --> 00:42:54,679
humanity from things that shouldn't exist. The tide of battle

868
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:57,639
turned when Captain Webb himself entered the fight directly. He

869
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,280
appeared a space near the largest Scout entity, and Chin

870
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,079
could see that he had become something that existed in

871
00:43:02,159 --> 00:43:06,039
multiple dimensions simultaneously. When he spoke, his voice carried across

872
00:43:06,039 --> 00:43:09,039
space without any communication system. You are not welcome in

873
00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:11,519
this reality, Web said, and his words had the force

874
00:43:11,599 --> 00:43:15,000
of absolute law. You will leave now or face the consequences.

875
00:43:15,639 --> 00:43:18,000
The scout ended to try to erase Web from existence,

876
00:43:18,079 --> 00:43:20,960
but he simply refused to be are made. Instead, he

877
00:43:21,039 --> 00:43:23,360
reached out with hands that existed in several dimensions at

878
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,519
once and began to dismantle the scout piece by piece,

879
00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:28,920
convincing each part that it belonged somewhere else. Within minutes,

880
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,599
the remaining Scouts fled back into the void between dimensions,

881
00:43:31,679 --> 00:43:33,840
carrying news of what they had encountered to their masters.

882
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,639
The immediate threat was over, but chinney this was only

883
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,519
the beginning. The Confederation featsh in space, their crews stunned

884
00:43:40,559 --> 00:43:43,559
by what they had witnessed. Weapons that could destroy platets

885
00:43:43,559 --> 00:43:45,760
had proven useless against him is that barely seemed to

886
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,800
notice they existed, But humans transformed beyond recognition had fought

887
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,599
those same enemies, and one, Admiral vex highest voice came

888
00:43:52,679 --> 00:43:56,119
through the communication system, the energy being's patents flickering with

889
00:43:56,199 --> 00:43:59,800
what can now recognized as fear. Human vessel Prometheus responded

890
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,880
to mediately, this is Captain Webb, came the reply. Webb's

891
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,079
voice sounded more human now that the battle was over,

892
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:07,760
but there was still something in it that spoke of

893
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:12,800
vast distances and impossible knowledge. What are you, Vex, I

894
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,320
asked bluntly. Webb was silent for a long moment before answering,

895
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,280
we are what humanity becomes when it chooses to survive

896
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,840
them possible odds. We are the price that was paid

897
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,639
to give this galaxy a chance against the Divirus and

898
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,800
the entities you fought. Scouts were replied, They came to

899
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,599
test our realities defenses. They found them lacking except for us.

900
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,119
Now they will return to their masters. Would use that

901
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:39,519
this dimension as guardians. Chum could imagine the chaos that

902
00:44:39,599 --> 00:44:43,320
was spreading through Confederation commands centers across the galaxy. Everything

903
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,800
they thought they knew about power, about technology, about the

904
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:49,360
nature of reality itself had just been proven wrong. Captain Webb,

905
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:53,159
she called out, what happens now? Now we prepare? Webb replied,

906
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,079
the Scouts will report that our reality is defended, but

907
00:44:56,199 --> 00:44:58,960
not how well. The diviers will send a larger force

908
00:44:59,039 --> 00:45:01,719
to test us again. Each time the attacks will get

909
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,199
stronger until they either decide were too dangerous to bother

910
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:07,119
with or they commit to a fall invasion. President Morrison's

911
00:45:07,119 --> 00:45:10,800
first joined the conversation from Earth's surface. Captain, what do

912
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,760
you need from us more guardians? Woods said, simply, we

913
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,960
can't protect an entire galaxy with just the crew of

914
00:45:17,039 --> 00:45:20,159
one ship. We need volunteers willing to undergo the same

915
00:45:20,199 --> 00:45:24,519
transformation we did. Chun felt her breath catch. The transformation

916
00:45:24,599 --> 00:45:26,760
that had saved the Prometheus crew had also costomed their

917
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,800
humanity in many ways. They were still human in their

918
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,400
hearts and minds, but their bodies and abilities were beyond normal.

919
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:36,000
Understanding the transformation process is dangerous, Webb continued. Not every

920
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,239
one survives it, and those who do or change forever.

921
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:42,400
But without more guardians, this galaxy will fall when the

922
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:46,239
main Divira of Force arrives. Admiral vexed highest energy patterns

923
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,840
pulsed rapidly. You're asking us to trust you with the

924
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,159
lives of our people. I'm asking you to choose, Web replied,

925
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,079
trust us or watch everything you've ever cared about be

926
00:45:55,119 --> 00:45:58,360
consumed by beings that exist to destroy reality itself. The

927
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,960
communication channels fell silent as the implication sank in. The

928
00:46:02,079 --> 00:46:06,559
mighty Galactic Confederation, with all its advanced civilizations and powerful technologies,

929
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,480
was helpless against the cosmic threat facing them. Their only

930
00:46:09,519 --> 00:46:11,960
hope lay with humans who had been transformed into something

931
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:16,519
beyond normal existence. Chun looked out at Prometheus, floating serenely

932
00:46:16,599 --> 00:46:19,320
in space, as if the reality bending battle had never happened.

933
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,440
The ships hill still polls with in a light, and

934
00:46:22,519 --> 00:46:25,480
the geometric pasants covering its surface continued to shift and flow.

935
00:46:26,119 --> 00:46:29,880
Admiral chan Webb's voice came through privately on her personal communicator.

936
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:33,400
There's something else you need to know. What is it, Marcus?

937
00:46:34,119 --> 00:46:36,559
The transformation isn't just about gaining the power to fight

938
00:46:36,599 --> 00:46:40,320
the divirers, Web said quietly. It's about becoming capable of

939
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:44,039
holding reality together when everything else fails. The children adapt

940
00:46:44,119 --> 00:46:46,679
fastest because they haven't learned to believe that things unpossible.

941
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:51,599
Chun understood, You're not just creating warriors, You're creating living

942
00:46:51,639 --> 00:46:56,159
anders for existence itself exactly, Web replied. When the main

943
00:46:56,199 --> 00:46:58,760
invasion comes, the Diviers will try to make this entire

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dimensional layer. They'll attack the very concept of existence here. Well,

945
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need guardians spread throughout the galaxy. Each one serving is

946
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a fixed point that refuses to let reality be erased.

947
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The weight of what Webb was describing hitch unlike a

948
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physical blow. They weren't just talking about a military defense.

949
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They were talking about fundamentally changing what it meant to

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be alive in this universe. How many volunteers will you need,

951
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she asks, thousands? Webb replied, maybe tens of thousands, and

952
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they'll need to be distributed across every major star system,

953
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every important world. The Diviers will attack everywhere at once

954
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when they finally come in force. Shun looked at the

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disabled Confederation ships, their crew struggling to restoch systems that

956
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had been convinced not to work. Then she looked at

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Earth beautiful and blew against the block of space, completely

958
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unaware of how close it had come. Simply ceasing to exist, Marcus,

959
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she said, finally you have your first volunteer. Webb silence

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stretched for a long moment. Sarah, you don't understand what

961
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you're offering. The transformation changes everything. You'll still be you,

962
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but you'll also be something that can exist in multiple

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dimensions simultaneously. You'll see reality from perspectives that will make

964
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normal human life seemed like a half remembered dream. Well,

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I soll care about protecting Earth, she asked, more than

966
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you do now, Web assured her. But you'll also care

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about protecting realities you've never seen, dimensions that exist parallel

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to our own. Your perspective will expand beyond anything you

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can imagine. Tron nodded, Then I accept. Over the following hours,

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similar conversations took place throughout the galaxy. The Confederation's finest

971
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officers and scientists, faced with the choice between transformation and extinction,

972
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began volunteering for a process that would make them into

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something beyond their current species. The Zephyrns, masters of energy,

974
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sent their most gifted manipulators. The Corvacks contributed their greatest bioengineers,

975
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even the ancient Veil emerged from their quantum moalms to

976
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offer candidates for transformation. But it was humans who volunteered

977
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in the greatest numbers, perhaps because they had already seen

978
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what their own people could become, or perhaps because they

979
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had always been the species most willing to adapt to

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impossible circumstances. The E. S. V. Prometheus became the center

981
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of a new kind of fleet, one made up of

982
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volunteers from every corner of the galaxy who were willing

983
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to sacrifice the normal existence to become guardians of reality itself.

984
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The ships transformation chambers, grown from technology that existed in

985
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multiple dimensions, began the slow process of creating a new

986
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generation of beings capable of fighting impossibility with will alone.

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Captain Web stood on the bridge of his transform ship,

988
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looking out at the stars that now seemed small and

989
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fragile compared to the vast threats looking in the void

990
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,719
between realities. The immediate battle was won, but the war

991
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for existence itself was just beginning. Behind him, Admiral Chen

992
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,679
emerged from her transformation chamber, no longer entirely human, but

993
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still recognizably herself. She could see across dimensions now perceived

994
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,559
thrust that normal senses couldn't detect, and hold on to reality,

995
00:49:46,559 --> 00:49:49,440
he threw sheer force of will. Welcome to the Guardians,

996
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Webb said, his voice carrying warmth, despite the vast distances

997
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:55,199
it seemed to cross. Are you ready to defend everything

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00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:59,480
that exists? Chen looked at it, the galaxy spread before them,

999
00:49:59,679 --> 00:50:02,599
knowing that somewhere in the void between realities, ancient enemies

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were preparing for war. But she also knew that humanity

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had found its purpose among the stars, not as conquerors

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or explorers, but as the species willing to become something

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impossible to protect the possible. I'm ready, she said, amend

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it completely, and that is the end. Thank you for listening,

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and i will see you in the next one.