text: It will take a long time to explain what, exactly, I am about to tell you. And well it does not matter whether I tell you, though it feels necessary. Our kind so often considers yours inferior. We only declare ourselves as superior out of fact, not feeling. We have advanced far beyond what many of you could dream of comprehending. We began advancement in a similar, if not completely identical manner as your society had. It started in similar discoveries, and led to similar outcomes. We collapsed and rebuilt many times. But eventually, people began to think long term. Eventually, a society of ours did last long enough to become sustainable. And it remained so. We fought amongst ourselves, often. But we changed, slowly. We learned to cooperate. To plan ahead. Our greatest minds began to work together. And we stopped fighting. We advanced as a species. We collapsed and rebuilt many times, yet it was different than before. We never separated, sticking closer than ever before in the wake of increasingly unsustainable conditions. We were forced to adapt. And as a result, so were our creations. Forced breakthroughs in physics, mathematics, and every other comprehensible field led to revolution. For the first time in millennia, we stopped adapting to our surroundings. We were able to adapt our surroundings to *us*. We all were able to live as long as we wanted. Nanotechnology allows us all to live as long as we want, and however we want, within boundaries. This is where I reach what I am telling you. You will be afraid. But I know not any other way to describe this. How you react will not change the outcome. We learned all there is to know. All except for one question. We wanted to learn something that even our race, now capable of non-finite lifespans, and full interstellar colonization, had yet to learn. It was a simple, yet overbearingly complex question. It is a question even you humans have asked since the very dawn of your existence. The question was: "*Why are we here?"* And so, we took to what had previously been agreed upon to never have been done. We created life. We watched millions of civilizations rise, just as ours had, only to fall, with no legacy left behind whatsoever. Every last one of them, no matter how barbaric or perfected they grew, no matter how advanced their technology became, neither them nor ourselves got an answer. But finally, it has become apparent. The lack of an answer has been the only answer, right in front of us, this whole time. We have no purpose. And with that, we have agreed upon a common solution. One would think to say goodbye, but to who, or what? We have an answer: There is no answer. We, nor yourselves, will feel any pain. It will be instantaneous. As I said before, how you react cannot and will not change the outcome. You may see this as cruel, or insensitive, or both. Well you will not realize it now, we are simply saving you from suffering, and ending our own. Let us leave the universe to itself.