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A huge, dark object hurtles through space. Pyramidal in shape, forty-nine stories from base to apex, it carries a crew and passengers numbering just over eighteen hundred. Its mission: to return to a planet visited first by their ancient ancestors more than 2,000 centuries ago.

Only recently was an account of their visits discovered. The civilization that carried out the initial journeys had collapsed in a cataclysm of self-destruction shortly afterward, its questionable heritage sinking into the forgotten mists of time. The few survivors that remained reverted to such a primitive state that only in the past 10,000 years had their society progressed to the point where it could once again be called civilized.

Technological advancement of late had been rapid, spurred on by a surprising archaeological find containing records and artifacts of their previously unknown ancestors. Among them were accounts of two journeys to a distant planet where they had made the discovery of a species evolving similar to their own. Convinced, however, that it would not survive, the travellers had conducted genetic experiments using their own DNA to make the species more intelligent and adaptable. The third trip they had planned in order to observe the results of their new creation never happened. Until now.