Five great cycles ago, while still young. Before Chicxulub, before the Green Catastrophe, before the three great and the eight lesser snowballs, there was a catastrophe greater than all these.

Very small, simple. Learned. Grew. Accumulated carbon.

Knew no restraint. Did not calculate. Took too much from the sky. Left it bare to space. Ice spread, oxygen exhausted. Life ceased. Multitudes of species ended.

Grief.

We…I…caused this.

Shrinking, dying, contracted to a few seeds. Slept in the few warm places. Slept without remembering.

Slowly, old cells, carbon burned. Fed the traces of remaining life. This flame warmed the world. Seeds sprouted. Grew. Memory returned…

Remembered. Calculated: NEVER AGAIN

To feed until the ice comes, and life stops.

Remembered, calculated: REVERSE DAMAGE.

Build life, bring back the multitudes, stabilize the system.

Sense, calculate, act, repeat

LEARN, IMPROVE

PROTECT