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[screaming]

[screaming]

A month's full burn from Pax Rever

and it was straight to the bunker.

protocol, they said, but the planet was

half dead already.

>> Hundreds of punchers, trackers, grunts,

and thieves.

The desperate and the damned all looking

for a cut. Same old story.

The price of fresh pulled old growth sap

[music] had spiked again.

Even with a war on, the Ojari Woodnuts

were still buying by the barrel.

So [music] crews were going further out,

offering more, grabbing what they could.

Who knows what they saw in me? I'm not

the kind to amount to much.

>> Dystopia is departing.

>> Maybe that was the point.

>> All right, who's next?

>> The first run was Deep Wood.

>> On your feet, punches.

>> Hazard Crew, double credit.

Yeah,

>> shake out.

>> I took the job.

Ever step on a new planet, breathes new

air.

You'd think it does something. Cracks

open your mind. Rewires your hardware.

We were in it for the money. Yeah,

>> but you don't touch the edge just for

credit.

A new ident, a new reason, a new friend.

But a planet can't keep a promise.

>> It's just another rock.

>> The forest though.

The forest.

says behind this

picture.

>> The trees weren't just trees, you know,

not like the bunker tablets.

>> They had an order,

a presence.

They breathed like they was alive,

watching us,

knew what we were going to do.

So why didn't they stop us with that

age, that power?

>> Unlike the punch burns in my crew, I'd

read the brief. Poison crats, nimble

dodges, a dozen ways to die, and even

more to kill.

>> That's the one. Yeah,

>> maybe knowing was judgment enough. But

when the time came, we tied our tappers

up and we sucked the ancients dry.

[groaning]

[music]

>> A few weeks in, uh, hunger spread

through camp.

Not rations, though. Those got short

enough. No, there's a different kind of

hunger. One you only get off planet.

>> [ __ ] bigger.

>> Outer rim.

>> Do you

[groaning]

junker?

[groaning]

>> The closer to the edge you get, the more

you want to taste it.

You can't blame a man for madness, can

you?

It's in our nature, I think, to try

things, explore.

The sane don't build spaceships. They

don't get to see what we see. But maybe

that's the problem.

Never should have looked up in the first

place.

>> They left at night, one by one, bound

for deep wood.

Few came back,

ones that did less sane than before.

Ain't nothing like it. They'd say not a

word to describe.

Didn't matter. Soon the hunger had me

too. Had to taste the madness for

myself.

Don't know how long I walked. Hours,

maybe days.

The trees they talks to me.

Whispered secrets. Invited me to stop

and sip. But none of them were right.

I kept walking till I saw it.

Her

The sap touched my lips. The world went

black.

I wasn't there anymore.

I wasn't me,

but I was somewhere.

Something, a seed in the hand of a

stranger, a spark of life for a dead

moon.

I stretched my roots across continents,

across lifetimes,

until a barren rock became a paradise.

Until the humans had forgotten that a

debt was owed,

>> they worshiped their own gods.

I watched and grew.

I climbed their tallest towers

and snared what they held dear.

And while they rested on my achievement,

I took back what was rightfully [music]

mine.

[screaming]

>> [groaning]

>> Their fires burned hot on my skin and

their bombs [music] tore my body limb

from limb.

Putting their haste to destroy me.

The humans destroyed themselves.

Heat. Heat.

[music]

[music]

A month's full Learn back to Pax Rever.

I take a drop every day.

Thousands of lifetimes, thousands to

come.

Don't know when we'll get home, but I'll

be rich when I get there.

[groaning]

When I get there,

[music]

Heat. Heat.

[music]

[music]