Millennia ago, we took to the stars. It started as a race to show who had the most technologically advanced society, and it became far more than that as time went on. What started with probes went on to be telescopes for witnessing the universe in its splendor, unrestrained by the barriers of the planet we began on. And we always wanted to go further. It was never a question of if we could take to the stars, but of when we would. It wasn't a want, it was an internal need. We, as a collective species, needed to take to the stars and break the bonds of our homeworld. And now we are here, thousands of years later, floating through space in some of the greatest machines our ancestors couldn't imagine. And we have yet to reach our apex, as we've only taken the galaxy...we require the universe.

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