A distant communication transmitted eons ago from another galaxy, another time
Taking a long time to coalesce into this information packet, this quantum sheath, this body.
Which when stable journeys through seemingly infinite energy states
burning brightly
Then begins an inexorable slow degradation, imperceptibly at first.
To nothingness, or at least back into the indigenous constituents that the carrier nanobot waves in the original transmission constructed from the surrounding environment: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.
One day, this will all change, of course.
The source of the original communication will be identified.
Will we still have enough coherence to explore another frontier?
Volunteers will be culled from the roster.
To undergo infinitesimal sampling and digital reconstruction.
Broadcast into oblivion.
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