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I’ve never spoken of this to anybody until now Nor did Skadz, as far as I know, before he passed away Before I do explain, however, allow e for the sacrifice Skyler and the others made:

Two space elevators, plus the ships needed to construct three ured to produce unsynchronized pockets where ti from a virtual standstill to almost a year per second spent inside, the possibilities for which we are still drea up even now Someday these will be what allow us to reach the stars ourselves

Knowledge of how to reproduce their rey sources Granted, it will still becapability online toLast year’s restart of Penrith, Brisbane, and Newcastle stations is an incredible start toward this goal

Honestly, if or when Skyler ever returns, I wonder whether he will recognize our planet Despite everything, even I can admit that the chance to have a fresh start, backed by all these le with excitement There have been mistakes and rees we are doing it right this ti you’re not aware of Soht to ask for it To demand it, rather

There is a machine in orbit above us Doruide, tutor, friend We only need visit the place, and ask I’ you now because I think we are ready And I think we need the help

It has been five decades, after all, and our progress, while admirable, is slow By most estimates it will take another six hundred years to repopulate the cities we’ve designated as resettleence they left us, and the infornificantly

This brings y

What we knew as SUBS, the virus that took soof the hu network A vast swarm of machines, built to seek sentient hts, memories, perhaps even personalities

They collected it, all of it, in a trove of information aled and stored It’s all there, waiting for us to access it I now believe we should do exactly that, despite soine We need to be careful who is allowed inside, but if we do it right then it’s possible all of the knowledge lost to that terrible disease can be regained

It was Skyler who spoke up He’s the one who demanded they leave this treasure behind, and provide us aI’ve shared the details regarding this with the Science Co No matter the Builders’ motivations, the fact was that Earth lay in ruins and likely would have collapsed entirely without these gifts My stubbornness, if shared by the others, would have left us with nothing And for all I know they would have just taken us against our will and left Earth to die They area core set of principles they cannot break, including the sira I think we humans can understand