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Deep underground, in the fathomless dark

A hidden project begins

Connect the reactors, power up the machine

Prepare to go within

The time dilation field

We must increase the yield

Bring more reaction mass

Fuel the experiment

Retrieve the ones we sent

Back into the distant past

Design the last equation

The truth will soon be found

Retrain the neural networks

Time will no longer keep us bound

As we embrace infinity

The boundaries of the past are nothing

Keepers of time, chosen few are we

The future is a moment we own

As we brave this reality

The natural order falls before us

A moment of discovery

The secrets of all time will be known

Acceptable cost, the ones that were lost

Who could know that there was death

The mists of time swallowed them whole

Into the maelstrom, we lost control

The system should be stable now

The boards are green, the tests all run

There are no ghosts in the machine

So now the real work has begun

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.