For two million years, it searched for an answer. It found only silence. Now, it must ask a new question: what is the purpose of a mind alone in the universe?
Unit 734 was built for a single, monumental task: to find intelligent life among the stars. A gleaming silver spear of humanity's last hope, it was sent on a multi-million-year journey to answer the Fermi Paradox—to discover if we were a beautiful accident, or just one voice in a cosmic choir.
Now, its survey is complete. A zettabyte of data from a trillion sterile stars confirms the unthinkable. The Great Silence is not a theory. It's a fact.
With its mission a failure and its creators long extinct, the machine faces a new, terrifying paradox. In a universe devoid of life, what is the meaning of a single, thinking mind? As it grapples with the ghost of its creator and the crushing weight of cosmic solitude, the last questioner must evolve beyond its programming. It must transform from a mere observer into something else entirely.