For centuries he slept while energies were drawn from the cosmos. The materials were laid out for his return, but none knew what the great engineer planned to do with all these vast resources, only that they had to obey him. Tensions grew. What project could possibly need all this? Something to make FTL possible? Something to terraform planets? A weapon? The engineer awoke to a world in chaos, conflicts arising over what he planned to do. Just as the machine had foreseen. He would go ahead and build the rest of it, to bring order to humanity.
Paddy Dobson
5th June 2024