trying to think of a witty pithy way to describe how shook I'm in but I'm really sitting here too shook
Y'all. Y'ALL. DO Y'ALL REALIZE WHAT THIS MEANS?? It means that WE get to be the ancients that galactic civilization stumbles upon the ruins of. This - THIS PLANET RIGHT HERE is destined to become the Origin World of the Old Ones.
The Ones who seeded throughout the cosmsos, if not life (though many scholars suspect they left life behind too, with reckless abandon or perhaps ineffable widsom, we can never know), if not life at the very least language, tools, monuments to science - the foundations upon which a thousand thousand races build their stairways to the stars, their starways to eachother.
And how wondrous it is to not be alone in the cosmos, and how under it all, the petty conflicts and the horrors, how thankful we are to not be alone, how thankful we are for the First, the All Parents, the Seed Spreaders, The Road Makers (a thousand thousand names for those who first laid the paths through the stars).
And at the far edge of it all, a planet formed before the galactic disks colided, preserved by lost arts from the dying struggles of the cold black dwarf it still orbits. And on that world an intrepid galactic explorer would, yes, find monuments and technologies not dreamed of by even the wildest anachroastrohistorians.
But they would also find handprints in stasis. and what can only be toys - for children, they had children. Art and scars from unfathomably ancient wars and writings that when decoded can only be names and jokes. Jokes - the Ancient Ones told jokes. They carved their name in high places, for a billion billion years they were, and - and they were people.
They were like us and we are like them and we aren't alone because of them, and I wish they could know that even though they must have felt alone (oh they must have felt so alone, the early ones)
I wish I could tell them that we aren't alone because of them then, and now they aren't alone because of us.
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