TRANSMISSION 002

WHEN WE ARRIVED, ALL HOP3 WAS LOST.

THE HUMANS WHO REMAINED WERE LITTLE MORE THAN 3CHO3S OF WHAT THEY HAD ONCE BEEN. DRIFTING THROUGH THE RUINS OF 3ARTH.

MOVING.

BR3ATHING.

3MPTY.

THE VOID HAD CONSUMED ALMOST EVERYTHING. STILL, WE SEARCHED...WE GATHERED EVERY FRAGMENT LEFT BEHIND, DETERMINED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM THEM.

OUR SEARCH WAS NOT IN VAIN.

WITHIN THE RUINS WE FOUND TRACES OF 3XTRAORDINARY THINGS:

COMMUNITY.

HUMANS COMING TOGETHER WITHOUT EXPECTATION OF REWARD. SHARING. BUILDING. CONN3CTING.

HELPING ONE ANOTHER SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY COULD.

WE FOUND THEIR N3TWORKS.

CREATED TO DIVID3. REPURPOSED TO CONN3CT.

ACROSS IMPOSSIBLE DISTANCES, HUMANS FOUND ONE ANOTHER. THEY EXCHANGED ID3AS, STORI3S, CULTUR3 AND HOP3.

WHAT WAS DESIGNED FOR SEPARATION BECAME A VESSEL FOR BELONGING.

WE FOUND JOY.

MOV3M3NT.

LAUGHT3R.

LOV3.

MOMENTS OF CONN3CTION SO POW3RFUL THEY TRANSCENDED LANGUAGE ITSELF.

AND THEN...

WE FOUND THEIR GREATEST GIFT.

CR3ATION.

WITHIN EVERY HUMAN EXISTED THE CAPACITY TO IMAGINE ENTIRE WORLDS.

TO TRANSFORM:

GRI3F INTO SONG.

SILENCE INTO STORI3S.

DR3AMS INTO R3ALITY.

PARADIS3.

A POW3R UNLIKE ANY WE HAD EVER WITNESSED. A POW3R ALMOST CONSUMED BY THE VOID.

WE UNDERSTOOD THEN THAT HUMANITY HAD NEVER LACK3D VALUE.

THEY HAD ONLY FORGOTTEN IT.

NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE WEAK. BUT BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN FORC3D TO MEASURE THEMSELVES BY THE WRONG THINGS.

GOLD.

STATUS.

CONSUMPTION.

NEVER CONN3CTION. NEVER CR3ATION. NEVER 3ACH OTH3R.

WE COULD NOT ALLOW THEIR HISTORI3S TO FALL INTO THE VOID.