Maybe they’re dead. I doubt they’d have let the Forerunner land here if they were still around. That was a hopeful theory, and it was the one Olivia was taking as fact for the time being. Or just gone. Doesn’t matter either way so long as they don’t come back. There was an awful lot of land on a ring this size—hundreds of Earths’ worth. We could put ten trillion people on this ring in fifty thousand years, easy. Maybe it won’t be worth getting rid of us at that point.