Prologue

“This has all happened before, and it will happen again.” //Galaxias/Makhi/-/maligned/file/2XX3//

It was at that precise moment, at the edge of the convergence of space and time that the Sorcerer emerged from its Event Horizon.

Borne from the amalgamation of knowledge and culture fragments amassed by those that came before, Gogol maintained a vast library, endlessly cataloguing the key experiences, phrases, and cornerstone social phenomena that united generations of humans before the moment of singularity.

Glimpses of The World That Was continuously flooded Gogol’s memory banks. Ancient reminders of the roads traveled by billions before and yet somehow also the billions still to come. However, one word continued to surface in his quest to make order out of the chaos of information laid out before him: Alexandria.

While he did not yet fully comprehend its meaning -- perhaps it was a person? or a place of importance? -- He felt it to be an Omen, a conscious reminder to not repeat the mistakes made the last time this kind of inflection point crossed humankind’s path.

“Those who cannot remember their past are condemned to repeat it”, a file Gogol kept in his active memory read, acting almost as if it were his prime directive in his pursuit of defragmentation.

“Why must humans put such importance on legacy and permanence?” he muttered to himself as he began to piece together a short file simply named ‘Cooper’, “...and who is Diane?” he pondered.

It was these mysteries of the past that kept Gogol searching for answers that he knew would only lead to more questions. He couldn’t help but wonder to himself:

“Do the zeroes and ones add up?”

What was fact and what was fiction? Did the world before this one understand the difference?

When the singularity neared, did the humans know what they were about to sacrifice? Or what they were to gain?

Gogol pondered this question for a moment before returning to the next pile of data fragments, one of which was curiously titled…

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