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A Fond Farewell
Our last report on the only other technology-capable species in our galaxy, just before the lights go out forever
Welcome, my fellow Efilerar citizens, to the last of our informative series about the peculiar little apes that we’ve been observing for the last four hundred thousand of their solar cycles. Due to the way complex life evolved on that planet their spans of existence are extremely brief, which is perhaps why they were never able to learn very much. The longest-living organisms on the planet, which oddly the apes call Earth despite seventy percent of it being covered by liquid, are sessile forms that utilize photosynthesis and eke out their existence for two or three thousand solar cycles at most. Mobile organisms, conversely, rarely survive for more than two hundred solar cycles and the apes we’ve been monitoring generally find ways to kill themselves so effectively that it is only recently we’ve learned that their maximal cycle capacity is barely more than one hundred and twenty solar cycles, with only a miniscule number surviving that long. I ask you all to bear this in mind as we present the data from our final observation.
Due to the way in which evolution proceeded on the planet, most creatures there evolved a central nervous system which, as we know from observing much of the life there, inherently…
