Bunurél/the Message

> "Greetings,
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> I am Smenaer Ricú Siprurun, Empress and Protector of the Empire of Rikutsar. I speak for myself, my wife Oasmae, and all 26 million citizens of Rikutsar.
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> If you are watching this broadcast, almost every Rikutsaren citizen on Earth has disappeared. The streets of Rikutsar lay empty and barren, various technological infrastructure have been ripped out and salvaged, and contact can no longer be established with the Rikutsaren government. At the time of this recording, the date is November 14th, 2094. If you are wondering how any of this could be possible, allow me to tell you a story:
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> In 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, the view myself and Oasmae had of humans was one of playful curiosity and confident sanctimoniousness. For thousands of years, we watched as humans fought, murdered, tortured, and enslaved each other, but we rested assured that this was a natural stage of development borne out of animalistic desire or immediate utility.
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> But when Nazi Germany began to enact their Final Solution, it became clear to us that humans were entering a new stage of their development. A stage where Humans had finally realized how intelligent they truly were and scrambled to find ways to use it. In this case, they used their intelligence to scientifically and empirically study ways to dominate, dehumanize, torture, and exterminate entire groups of people systematically, something which had never before been done in this way.
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> Needless to say, our view of humans quickly changed from one of playful curiosity to one of fearful respect and caution. The war revealed a part of humanity that scared us, as it still does. When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that fear turned into determination: determination to evacuate the citizens of Rikutsar as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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> This led to the establishment, in 1949, of Project Exodus, the largest and most ambitious spacefaring project ever conceived on Earth, and after nearly 150 years of work, Project Exodus is finally ready. We have located a suitable home world for our people, and the technology necessary to reach that world in a timely manner has been perfected. Within just a couple human generations, we will be establishing ourselves on a new planet.
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> Those watching this may think that this constitutes the highest order of betrayal to the human race, that we've abandoned the species we sought to protect. To those people let me say this: every day, every minute we delayed could have meant the complete destruction of humanity. Every day, it seems, humanity faces another lethal threat to itself. This is why no time could be wasted and no resource could go unused. Humanity, as Óasmae and I have both come to realize, is one of the most precious resources in the universe, and it must be preserved at any cost. However, it must be guided through this new part of its development. We could only take as many as we had the resources for.
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> We have complete and total faith in the rest of the Human race that they can achieve what we have achieved, should they realize that it's for their own good. This is why every document, blueprint, and piece of technology from Project Exodus has been made available at the Rikutsaren National Archives in the city of Cazegár.
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> We are truly rooting for those individuals who still hold out in hopes that humanity can change for the better. It was truly an honor for these two Lithoi to have gotten the chance to spend all these millennia with you, and we sincerely hope that you can become what you have the potential to be.
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> Thank you, and good luck."
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