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Millions of years ago, humanity vanished
Not from war. Not from collapse. They simply disappeared
What remains is a galaxy haunted by their absence
Across the stars, alien civilizations have risen and fallen, built empires, explored strange worlds, and spent millennia trying to understand the ruins left behind by the civilization that came before them
They call humanity different things
The Great Builders. The Shapers of Worlds. The Dead Ones. The Conquerors of Stars
But they all agree on one thing:
Nothing has ever surpassed them
Humanityβs relics are scattered across the galaxyβimpossible machines, dead megastructures, weapons beyond comprehension, and technology so advanced that entire civilizations have built their own futures by reverse-engineering its remnants
And drifting through the darkness is Epitaph: a colossal worldship, longer than the diameter of planet Earth, still operating millions of years after its creators disappeared
Its machines continue to maintain it
Its defenses still function
Its secrets remain sealed
No one knows what Epitaph was built for
No one knows where humanity went
And the deeper the galaxy digs into the ruins of mankind, the more terrifying the truth becomes:
Humanity may have been the greatest civilization the galaxy will ever know, and whatever happened to them may be the one mystery their machines were never meant to reveal