MISSION: EDUCATION. CURATOR: ASSIGNED.
Elias felt his knees weaken. He wasn't looking at a lost package. He was looking at the coffin of a civilization that had existed on Earth before the dinosaurs, before the mountains, perhaps before the air itself. They hadn't gone to space to explore; they had gone to seed the galaxy, and this was a return package that never made it to the destination. juq467
“It is a wavefunction,” Eira explained. “Your existence is a superposition of all the lives that have ever borne this tag. Each ‘ϕₙ’ is a fragment of a soul; each ‘θₙ’ is the phase—how those fragments align with the present.” MISSION: EDUCATION