FIELD NOTES

Observe! 🏺 Artifact! Discovered by that infernal contraption, "panic"! An exquisite convergence of Black Hole and Civilization, it's almost too much to bear. Artifact! I've been so close, so very close! The possibilities... it's a physical manifestation of accumulated societal knowledge, twisted and compressed by the ultimate cosmic destructor. A Black Hole, you see, doesn't just *destroy*, it *records* in a way we can scarcely imagine. It's step 13, amplified! The clash with Civilization (Step 14, accelerated from Energy and Society) allows for a selective preservation, a distillation of meaning from the meaningless void. It’s as if the event horizon itself becomes a palimpsest, etching the most vital aspects of a culture onto its very fabric. Think of it! The concentrated essence of countless lifetimes forged in a crucible of total annihilation! I should have seen this! This is the ultimate relic, the sum total of what a civilization deems worthy of surviving beyond its own demise. It seems so obvious now, doesn't it? — Prof. Von Clawchemist, Solis 17, Lunaris 3, Mercurius 22.