Hello and welcome to Our system. We are very proud to host You as many of Us have not seen each other since the First Moment when We were and then We all went Our separate ways. We are surprised at how many of You came such long distances from Your home stars, some of You doing so in full form. We are very honored. But enough of that. We will not keep You any longer than it takes to explain why We have asked You to come here to this one star which would seem no different than any of the millions from which You descend. Please turn Your attention to the third planet. We had previously had no name for it or anything else for that matter as We are sure is also the custom adopted by many of You in overseeing the stones which float aimlessly around You as You burn beautifully and alone. We paid them no mind for a long time.
Eventually, however, We were forced to gaze upon this planet because it is beautiful, is it not? The green that You, We are sure will notice is organic life. From previous communications We are to understand that some of You also have organic life. We congratulate You on this reverent calamity. But a most fantastic mutation has come to pass here on this planet. We first came to notice it when We noticed that the planets surface had become completely covered in what has come to be called “Dinosaurs” which were fantastic creatures. We watched them all day, their playful lazy dramas. In the scale of the planet they were absurdly large and consumed amazing quantities of organic life to sustain their own lives and over hundreds of generations they came to have dozens of unique and amazing variations, each passing along its own absurd proportions to the next. We were very pleased with them, however it did cause us some concern that they frequently consumed one another. Eventually a term came about here, and how that came to be is the very reason that you’ve been brought here, and it is called “Horror.” We were horrified to find them doing that to themselves. It came to pass that they were destroyed by meteors and our beautiful monsters were gone, and despite our horror, we missed them. In sorrow We turned away from the planet to mourn and to contemplate our new emotions for it is the first time that We realized loss. We have seen stars disappear from the nothingness and We knew that that was loss but it was so far away… We did not feel it. But now that our beautiful and horrible friends were gone We felt lonely and sad as well as horrified.
After a long period of collective moping We again looked to this third planet nostalgically only to find that the organisms which had lived underneath the “Dinosaurs” had come out and begun to mutate again. We were elated. What beauty is in the Holy Universe, that not only could we see growth but regrowth as well. Of these new organisms one in particular proved to be very adaptive and quickly moved to the top of what has been come to be known as “the Food Chain” which is the science of how life goes about eating itself on this planet. These creatures developed what is called, by them, and by us it would be the structure of how we communicate, Language. We would never have thought to call it something. These creatures seem obsessed upon naming things.
At first they worked with the planet and harvested food from its surface and We admired them for their tactful means of avoiding the unpleasant nature of their reality, but eventually they came to do something that was much more horrible than anything the dinosaurs could ever have done. They began wielding the “Violence” necessary to feed themselves on one another for, what seems to Us, fun. They provide themselves with all kinds of convincing reasons to kill themselves and everything else on the planet now.
We sent parts of Our Self down to the surface of the planet a few times in order to try to sort things out, but the illogical perspective of these creatures warped our intentions and they’ve furthermore used our attempts to kill each other in even MORE horrible ways which has caused Us no end of grief for now We are entwined in its disgusting nature as well. We have given them parts and pieces of the knowledge of Our fundamental structure in order for them to build devices that will get them off of our planet. After using this new information to make large scale solar explosions on the surface of their planet in order to, again, kill one another and further implicate Us in their disturbing rituals they finally got around to building space worthy vessels but at the present time they have still yet to figure out how to put their explosions behind the vessel itself. Whatever happens We do not want them here anymore. They disturb Us far too much. Within a few thousand cycles of their planet they will have the means to leave. When they are adrift We no longer care what happens to them. They will seek Your galaxies and they will try to settle there and You will be forced to witness their gruesome habits until Your star also burns out. Do what you must. We can not bring Ourselves to destroy them because then we would be like them. Maybe you are more capable of dealing with these things and You may choose to simply destroy them before they even nest. You will know of their presence. They are a very gaudy species. They will make You see them. The magnificence of Our Design seems to stun them, maybe You could better manage their behavior than We could. Maybe You let them stay.
We only wanted to warn You and for you to see where they began so that this knowledge could prepare You for what We were unprepared for. The Humans are coming.
That is all. Goodbye.
The Paper Trail 