Conflicts of the last progenitors

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Stars like haphazardly cast salt speckle the rich black lake of outer space. Sitting within the darkness slowly turning, is a blue, brown, green and white marble, Earth. Iridescent storms spread like a plague over the land masses.

FEMALE VOICE (V.O.)

The exact origins of the Dissolving Cloud are unknown, but a commonly

held belief is that the viruses and counter-viruses engendered by and

for the computers of this age

became sentient and mutable.

Above storm-enshrouded Earth, five satellites speed from distant regions of the world toward a central point.

FEMALE VOICE (V.O.) (CONT'D)

In the end, the destructive program turned on itself.

In a perfectly coordinated instant, the satellites impact in one specified spot...where they implode and then explode silently and brilliantly in the vacuum of space, a white smear of light with debris spinning pell-mell in all directions.

FEMALE VOICE (CONT'D)

2054 marked the end of the Computer Age.

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