ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Personal Log PERIOD: Colony Era SPEAKERS: Orem, S. [ID:SORE] TOPIC: A Reflection on the Unknown / A Questioning of Faith SUMMARY: A colony scientist privately considers new information. =================================================================== [SORE]: They're… I can't say this out loud. Not to the others. Though surely, they feel the same… If not entirely, then to a degree… [SORE]: The entities encountered after the… the event… We still don't have a full accounting of what transpired when the outside force engaged… When the [REDACTED]. [SORE]: That we survived is miracle enough. I am not a man of faith, but, oddly, facing the realities of [REDACTED] is… I… I find myself questioning… really… Searching may be the more appropriate term… [SORE]: I'm searching for answers to questions I never considered asking. [SORE]: The few left behind… The remnants of the encounter… The specimens we… They don't close the door on faith as one would… as I would have…imagined. Instead, they offer evidence of a creator… Creators? Not necessarily a god-figure. But… maybe… [SORE]: How else…? [SORE]: How is a living thing so meticulously crafted? [SORE]: If the human body is an organic machine perfected by evolution, then… then… These… [SORE]: In light of their existence… I can only theorize that we—humanity—who has conquered the stars… From the sea to Tau Ceti… We are miraculous achievements and testaments to nature's ability to adapt and grow… to overcome and master the circumstances of existence… [SORE]: But in the light of… In the aftermath of… [SORE]: […] [SORE]: What are we in comparison to everything we do not know? =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [ ]