The Eternity Artifact

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“Love of knowledge is the basis of all scholarship and lies eternally at the root of the tree of civilization.”

“The eternal love of God surpasses all other loves, and is to be valued above all worldly and other transient affections.”

“Love is a delusion, an eternal romanticization of lust perpetuated by oversexed males.”

“A true artist’s love of life, of the endless and eternal, and all that it encompasses, is expressed in every brushstroke.”

“What separates artifices and artifacts from mere assemblages of components, what defines them and their use, is the love with which they are constructed and applied.”

The last—and most unusual—discovery of the ill-fated and underfunded Deep Space Exploration program of the League of Worlds was Chmnos [see “B2,” “DSE, Section 4-1,” “Galactic Anomalies”]…

Chronos is a perfect sphere of compressed matter in a state that appears as neither regular matter, nor that which would be classified as neutronium. Its diameter is 15,020 kilometers [1.178 T-norm], with an approximate mass of 1.9714X1015 kilograms [density is wughty 280 T-norm]. Remote tests and probes indicate no atmosphere, and a surface that is perfectly polished [variation less than .0001 mm.] under a thin layer of galactic dust and detritus. Chronos rotates on its own axis with a period of eleven standard hours…

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