Martin grunted shared frustration. “I don’t know who it thinks it’s fooling. Obviously it just wants to keep us from the depression and existential dread of knowing that everything we ever knew and loved is irrevocably lost in the distant histories of time. Or maybe it wants to keep us from thinking about the thousands or even millions of copies of us that have been spawned all over the galaxy, to do our little jobs and then break down. Exactly like any of the mechanical segments it makes.”