An instrumental interlude that represents our protagonist collecting their thoughts regarding these messages that we've interpreted and the emotional turmoil that is brought upon by the realization that we too might have a similar fate.

Contemplation

This is our antagonist. They are a nomadic civilization that is made up of the remnants of all the worlds that failed due to these universal flaws of life that we have discovered. Their motto is to not only do away with these characteristics we exhibit, but also remove other "hindrances" to our success such as diversity, creativity, and novel concepts in general that could be "dangerous."
They see our world, are disgusted, and come in an attempt to "fix" us by any means necessary, even if it means destroying our civilization in the process.

Lyrics:

Stop 
Stop 
Clear your mind 
Close your eyes 
Close your 
It’s better not to know 
What you lost 
When you try 
to make your life mean more 
more is less 
When it’s gone 
You’ll see you don’t need 

Love, it clouds your mind 
Leading you to ruin 
as every other light 
faded away 
Your world, beautiful 
Shame we have to rid you of your desire 

Who, who are we? 
We are aftermath of worlds that could not be 
And we are here

Aftermath

This is the showdown between us and the antagonist. Despite their superior technology, we defeat them because our world is dynamic, and has a certain tenacity that their people lack. 

The realization we have about these universal characteristics of life is that without greed, we cannot truly want. Without ignorance, we cannot truly learn, and without an ultimate lack of control, we cannot be ready for anything.

We are victorious, their civilization perishes, and we acquire their technology.

Lyrics: 

How are you here 
When all other worlds had fallen 
by their own hand 
yet you still survive 


My world, what could it mean to you? 
What drew you to our troubled land? 
You’re not here to save me I’m sure 


Gone are the flaws that would lead us all to ruin 
You care not for our vanity 
can’t you see we’re already doomed 
As they break through our defense 
it is clear our way of life is done

Arrival

Not only did our conquest save the world, but the spoils of war bring our civilization new technology that we could never have dreamed of. We recklessly use these advancements to take our world to the stars, slowly losing grip on what we even valued to begin with. Amidst the growing sea of people, we lose our ability to express ourselves, our virtues, and our creativity in lieu of order and uniformity. The “First Contact” sample is our discovery of another world, much like us at the beginning of this story. Our story ends as we set a course for this new civilization with the sole intent on “fixing” them.

With this new-found technology, we are able to fulfill our dreams and take our civilization to the stars. This however creates a problem for the kind of people we are. The scale of our civilization becomes too grand, and in order to expand properly, measure are taken to quell diversity, creativity, novelty, and the universal truths in lieu of order and uniformity. 

We become the antagonist.

The final synthesizer solo represents the communications of another world, similar to us at the beginning of this story. We see them, become disgusted, and send out our massive fleets of spacecraft to destroy them, and any other new life we discover.

In the end, we are content.

Lyrics:
Let go of all of the woes 
that keep you down on the ground now and 
realize our story had to end 
but another carries on 


Let’s, let’s be the ones who will 
take to the stars and build new world order 
Dreams are made of sweet memories 
that fade every day 


A scale much too grand 
What do we dream of 
When there’s nothing to say 
as we iron out our lives 


We have become what we 
fought to destroy 
There is nothing left to create 
but order for all 

First Contact

New World Order

An instrumental postlude about how this story, much like every story, must come to an end.

Fade

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