The Lost Archives
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Last published Thu, Apr 18, 2024
16 years ago, Astrophysicists Mara Wojicivik and Microbiologist Ben Kaston slept together. People will sleep together for all sorts of reasons. They could love each other. They could hate each other. They could hate how much they love each other. But for Mara and Ben, it was different. For them, regardless of their respective feelings, they slept for humanity.
Nobody predicted it. Not the millions of scientists; not the millions of philosophers; not even the giant satellite pointed at it. But there it was, a comet the size of four Kim K mansions (SNL did a skit on it) coming straight to Earth. So, like any sensible human being with a year of preparation, Mara and Ben slept together. Unlike any sensible human being, Mara and Ben gave birth-well, that part was just Mara-and did something that Mom-influencers on Instagram would swear against, they stuck their children in a bunker.
As humanity leaves a demoralising trail, perishing to Kim K's comet, the 5 youngsters grow up in a bunker filled with archives. Tasked with organising all 256,743 archives filled with artefacts, photographs, stories, videos and products remaining of humanity, the 5 think their job is simple enough. All they need to accomplish is locate, record in inventory, and shelve it back into the archives.
But when archives disappear seemingly into thin air, when tunnels don't match up and when the bunker starts to whisper, the 5 can't help but whisper back.
Maybe humanity was doomed. Maybe humanity is doomed. But when the lost archives start becoming a mystery, now that's a portion of humanity the 5 need to save.
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