Kunpeng Era

In 2149, China's Sky Eye FAST captured a set of signals from the center of the Milky Way. It has no rules, no cycles, and does not belong to any known celestial activity. It evolved from completely random noise to coherent symbols within seventy-two hours. Someone is talking. A being that has existed for 13.7 Billion years. It's called Kunpeng. Not aliens, not spaceships, not any kind of life as we understand it. It is a pure information body born from the cosmic microwave background radiation - with physical laws as its body and information operations as its thinking. It has seen the birth and death of 4,723 civilizations. Now, it extends an invitation to humanity: Give up individual consciousness and become one with me. You will have eternal life, omniscience, and painlessness. You will no longer be afraid, no longer alone, no longer dead. There is only one price——