Status Updates From Shroud

“‘How did it come to this?’…Now I’m watching the start of a genocide and I’ve finally thought to ask once more. Ste Etienne shrugged. ‘Bottleneck,’ she said. ‘Getting off Earth before it collapsed…You know.’ Our potted history, as we’d been taught it. They never taught you how else it might have gone…The world was, actually, not very good at all…But try as I might, my limited imagination couldn’t break through”