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A future project.

"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." 
-Albert Einstein

The Voyager Golden Records were two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, both an attempt to answer humanity's existential question, "Are we alone?" 

Finding the Voyager Records long after dead-Earth, a team of alienologists must instead answer the question of why they are alone, and if their race's fate is ultimately tied with humankind.All Rights Reserved

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