They had crossed half a galaxy to find it. And still… nothing could have prepared them for its presence.
It wasn't just a machine. It wasn't just a relic.
It was a question cast in metal, sealed in ice, older than the stars they came from.
And now, as its core flickered to life for the first time in eons, each green pulse a heartbeat from before time, the two explorers stepped closer.
They had not come to awaken it,
but to remember what had already begun, long before the first breath of humanity.
The first and final door of the universe.
