ANSA astronaut George Taylor crash‑lands on a future Earth ruled by apes; the on‑screen chronometer reads November 25, 3978.
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Historical Record
Far in the future, a spacecraft makes landfall on a coastline that looks familiar and alien at once. Explorers establish a perimeter, calibrate instruments, and begin the slow work of mapping a world that refuses to fit their assumptions. Ruins speak in a language the crew almost recognizes; inhabitants follow laws the crew does not. The mission log records a drift from confidence to humility as time itself becomes a variable rather than a constant.
Historically, 3978 stands as an interpretive mirror. The expedition discovers that discovery is never neutral, and that the past can be closer than calculations suggest. The archive preserves charts, photographs, and an unsettling conclusion: travelers often find what their own choices prepared them to see. The landing becomes a parable in the curriculum of future flight schools.
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