2019/20 The Navigator

Welcome to the Museum of Interstellar Science. To your right, you’ll find one of the classic planetary exhibits in our collection. Earth, as it was called in its day, was a fascinating, if somewhat short-lived planet that existed on Level 291 of Multiverse v2.3.

Primitive as it was, one of the most intriguing things about this little blue planet was how a relatively weak species of primates rose unpredictably to the top of the food chain. Scientists all over the Multiverse have spent significant resources studying how this came to be.

Of particular interest was how they managed to destroy their natural habitat as well as 99% of the intelligent life they co-existed with, in such an abysmally short period of time. They never even made it past their own galaxy before their entire civilization imploded in a brilliant flaming ball of ignorance. The lone exception was The Navigator. There are no records of his real name, birthplace, serial code, or the flight path that he was on. Only that he was an Earthling, and he made it out alive.

Centuries later when a group of historians and scientists toured the decayed rotating sphere, they visited the base station used on that fateful day. What looked to be etched by hand in the wall of the launch pad, they found the following words:

“Fate draws a line between life and death by the stars and the sky and your ability to navigate them.”