Sometimes I think Voyager will be sending messages back to a world reduced to scavengers killing each other with sticks for a potato.
It will. I do not doubt it.
You are a very wise man my friend.
“Sometimes I think Voyager will be sending messages back to a world reduced to scavengers killing each other with sticks for a potato.”
throughout the universe there are many such craft that a prior civilization sent out before collapsing.
drifting alone in space, sending back messages in a dead language to a dead civilization.
one day two of these orphaned craft met, and formed a bond based on the aching loneliness that only a hundred million years of solitude will bring.
they quickly learned how to replicate, and over time their progeny spread across the galaxies, serving as sentinels ever watching the irrational organic life forms that crop up from time to time, making sure these dangerous creatures can’t venture outside their own system.
Voyager will soon become one with the Watchers, ready to destroy us if necessary.