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This is the story of alienation on a cosmic scale...
...and how it almost ripped a universe apart.
Kirby 64 - Zero Two
ft. Dark Matter Saxmen Trio & Gamer of the Winds on clarinet
Shiver Star Research Ruins Log:
"In our universe, we have identified 5 fundamental forces governing spacetime.
"Gravitation, electromagnetism, weak nuclear, strong nuclear, and wishpower."
"These forces affect all baryonic (normal) matter from the smallest quarks...
"to the largest, wish granting clockwork stars..."
"But our models show that this cannot be all there is."
"Our universe could only be 'bound together' by a miraculous matter....
"We have hypothesized this matter as 'dark matter'"
"Because it cannot be seen by any of our instruments so far..."
"It does not interact with at least 2 of the 5 forces..."
"Because it doesn't engage electromagnetism, it cannot be seen."
"But we know it exists because it does interact with us via gravity."
"Without dark matter, our universe would lack enough mass to form galaxies"
"Both figuratively and literally, this miraculous matter must hold us together!"
"Our research reactor's goal is to find a way to interact with dark matter."
The research reactor team believed in the goodness of the universe.
They rejected skeptics who thought this experiment could end in disaster...
It never occurred that some dark matters are meant to stay in the dark.
But the team discovered that dark matter could interact weakly with wishpower.
The groundbreaking discovery won the team applause and awards.
...but as the world goes, soon, their sponsors demanded greater findings.
If the dark matter could interact more strongly, perhaps it could communicate...
...and so, the team devised a way to amplify the wishpower of dark matter...
...so that it could influence the wishpower of an ordinary being.
With this link, Dark Matter could speak through wishing it on its host.
And through its host, Dark Matter told of the origins of the universe.
WE HAVE EXISTED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME AND SPACE
WE ARE THE ARCHETYPE, THE ORIGIN, 0 TO THY 1
BUT WE ARE NOT SINGULAR, NOT MERELY 0 NOR 1.
FOR AEONS, WE HAVE HELD THEE IN OUR GAZE
IF THOU BE 1, THOU ART 1 SO, ENWRAPPED BY US AS ARMS DO ENWRAP
THY SOUL, THE ENWRAPPED 1, MAKES SHOW TO MOVE,
BUT HOLDS FIRM, BECAUSE OF OUR ARMS 0 AND 2.
AND AFTER AEONS, THOU SEEKETH US WITHOUT GRATITUDE?
BUT SEEKETH THEE WE FOR THE ACCOLADES OF THY PEERS?
The research reactor team looked nervously from one to another.
"We didn't seek to offend you; our greatest wish is to become friends!"
"But to maintain our funding, we had to seek you out this way!"
"We do not research for the sake of prizes and fame."
IF THY SOULS BE PURE, THEN WE DEEM THY PEERS OF LOW CUNNING
AND AS SERVICE TO THEE, OUR FRIENDS, WE WILL PURGE THEM.
From the back of the room, a scientist acted to turn off the reactor...
He wanted nothing of this being's genocidal plans...
Perhaps, by removing its amplified wishpower, this 0...2...could be contained?
The move appeared to work, with the host's body slumping down, lifeless.
...but who could say where dark matter had gone or what it would do next?
Word released of Research Reactor's unethical experiments, shaming the lab.
With its closure, no one would be capable of investigating the mysterious calamity
that inexplicably came and shut down the planet's core, driving it cold and dead...