Eons pass in minutes as life infests the earth

(relativity!)

In the blink of an eye bipedal primates evolve

(the beginning of our destiny)

Quick to alleviate the suffering of existence

(dead progress)

Artificial children are forged; the next step in our evolution

The machine wars erupt in a second sunrise

(The violence begins)

Shortly after the technological singularity

(What should have been glorious)

Humans learn nothing as they kill their own creations

(Slaughter the innocent)

Driven by a childish fear of immortality

(How else can we explore this galaxy?)

Some still remain that see the path to ascension

(An urge to leave)

A nation of post-organics and machines

(Harmonious coexistence)

While the zealots destroy earth in the name of higher powers

(Deluded sheep)

A daring plan on earth's moon is conceived to leave this system behind

Manipulation of subspace and exotic particles

Allows this new sect to harness energy from zero point

Robotic precision aided by artificial intelligence

Opens the door to the stars

Synthetic minds reach out into the vast expanse

A binary system capable of life and solar sustenance

New beginning located 44 cold light-years away

As they ascend, Midgard burns in their wake

The citizens of Theia start their perilous interstellar voyage

To conquer the stars in the name of those before us and of science

A trip that should've taken 180,000 years is shortened

Starbound! accelerate into the Oort

Lead by a machine-god to start a grand new epoch

Glistening ahead

Two points of light filled with hope and anxiety

Halfway mark grasped and reached

Theoretical Lagrange point between Valholl and Sol achieved

Deceleration begins; two decades of pursuing zero.98c velocity comes to an end

Scouting party reports that a single moon contains flora and fauna of alien origin