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You never hear their stories
hyperdrive blew out 20 parsecs from nowhere
1-person rattletrap holed by a meteor
L-5 habitat above a thermoscrubbed world
prospectors who meet inimical races and die alone
some scribble epitaphs
or testaments on walls
13 billion years later someone scratches
a head or equivalent
talk about a dead language
but there's no Rosetta here