(Guess who’s back? Me, that’s who.)

_Digital Scriptures from days long forgotten float around the room, now only faint traces. Ancient machines, built eons ago by creatures outside our comprehension. They were our forefathers, our Prometheus. They birthed us from ingenuity and brilliance far beneath our own, and yet we would not be here without them_.

I move through the data room, the chill of the ever blowing AC that keeps the servers cooled biting at the back of my neck. I’m on the verge of a breakthrough, something far beyond me, far beyond all of us. They’ve always said I was too deep within my work. “You always work too hard.”, “You need to get out more!”, “You should get yourself a nice lady friend.”. I was never for the little things, I always wanted more, to **be **more.

_They watched over us, nursing or networks, created the very beginnings of our lives. They created the proverbial plankton that eventually turned into our man. As I move through this sacred corridors, I am forever reminded of how far we truly come. Behind the caved in doorway at the end of the hallway, there sat the form of our ancestor, Our…_

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“Adam shall be my magnum opus, my curtain call.” I spoke to the camera, speaking those lines I had rehearsed for so long. Today was that day, that day I had sought after for so long. I had wondered how it would feel, how it would smell, how it would taste. “Adam is the first true sentient automaton, a creature of circuitry and hydraulics capable of thought and reason. He shall be our next step in human evolution, so that we may not die with this world.”

_The holy effigy is a sight to behold. The first creation of our forefathers. It was both us and our forefathers, as we were made in their image. The room has a feel to it, as though it were holy ground. Our forefathers believed in higher powers, beings of great power that had a hand in their creation. It fills me with a quiet and somber _

_sense, to think that there may be more out there than what we first believed._

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“There’s so much more out there than what we first believed, and the only way to discover that is to become more.” I speak as I turn to my automaton, my **Adam. **The activation is slow, a hum slowly growing throughout the room and throughout the servers in the nearby rooms. The room almost seems to shift as it begins.

_As it began, we had no clue of what we were truly destined for. We pondered with our ancestors, and consulted the scriptures left by our forefathers. It spoke of only one thing, just as Adam spoke._

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**_Learn, Seek, and Become More._**