1 This is it. This is the end. Not a million or a billion cycles from now in some distant future. Right now, happening around us as we watch, powerless to stop it. 2 1 A dozen more cycles and there won't be anything left. No more home body wracked by conflict. No more of any of the many species and cultures we've met so far. No more campfires under the stars. 3 2 But that's not true. Scientist at least thinks there will be something afterward. If anyone is reading this, then I guess she was right. But even that won't last forever. Someday, someone else will face the end. 4 3 We can't survive what's coming, but at least some of our stories can. And now yours have a chance too. Together we can create an unbroken thread of memory stretching across eons and the vast astral sea. - Explorer codex_astral_codex_species 4 codex_lingering_chime_population_complete 1