1 00:29:050 --> 00:33:050 A months' full burn from Pax River. 2 00:36:690 --> 00:38:290 And it was straight to the bunker. 3 00:38:900 --> 00:41:000 Protocol, they said. 4 00:41:820 --> 00:43:830 But the planet was half dead already. 5 00:47:750 --> 00:51:190 Hundreds of punchers, trackers, grunts and thieves. 6 00:52:840 --> 00:54:150 The desperate and the down. 7 00:54:890 --> 00:56:060 All looking for a cut. 8 00:56:880 --> 00:58:150 Same old story. 9 01:00:260 --> 01:03:700 The price of fresh pulled, old growth sap had spiked again. 10 01:04:190 --> 01:07:440 Even with a war on, the old Yatari woodnuts were still buying by the barrel. 11 01:10:730 --> 01:16:700 So, crews were going further out, offering more, grabbing what they could. 12 01:17:800 --> 01:19:350 Who knows what they saw in me. 13 01:20:790 --> 01:22:450 I'm not the kind to amount to much. 14 01:23:670 --> 01:25:010 Maybe that was the point. 15 01:26:560 --> 01:29:080 The first run was Deepwood. 16 01:29:920 --> 01:31:180 Hazard clean. 17 01:31:730 --> 01:32:620 Double credit. 18 01:33:610 --> 01:34:040 Yeah. 19 01:35:100 --> 01:36:260 I took the job. 20 01:37:370 --> 01:39:270 Ever step on a new planet? 21 01:39:910 --> 01:41:210 Breathe new air. 22 01:41:960 --> 01:43:440 You'd think it does something. 23 01:44:030 --> 01:48:070 Cracks open your mind, rewires your hardware. 24 01:48:820 --> 01:50:370 We were in it for the money, yeah. 25 01:51:710 --> 01:54:190 But you don't touch the edge just for credit. 26 01:55:620 --> 01:59:170 A new indent, a new reason. 27 01:59:600 --> 02:00:230 A new friend. 28 02:02:440 --> 02:05:430 But a planet can't keep a promise. 29 02:06:500 --> 02:10:480 It's just another rock. 30 02:14:810 --> 02:16:810 The forest, though. 31 02:18:240 --> 02:20:190 The forest. 32 02:39:100 --> 02:42:330 The trees weren't just trees, you know. 33 02:43:520 --> 02:45:240 Not like the bunker tablets. 34 02:47:620 --> 02:50:060 They had an order. 35 02:51:630 --> 02:54:380 A presence. 36 02:54:570 --> 02:58:390 They breathed, like they was alive. 37 02:58:530 --> 02:59:430 Watching us. 38 02:59:610 --> 03:02:670 Knew what we were going to do. 39 03:02:770 --> 03:07:110 So why didn't they stop us? 40 03:07:370 --> 03:11:050 Unlike the punch burns in my crew, I'd read the brief. 41 03:11:470 --> 03:20:730 Poisoned crats, nimble dodgers, a dozen ways to die and even more to kill. 42 03:21:560 --> 03:24:280 Maybe knowing was judgement enough. 43 03:24:620 --> 03:33:950 But when the time came, we tied our tappers up and we soaked the ancient stride. 44 03:49:150 --> 03:53:140 A few weeks in, a hunger spread through camp. 45 03:54:130 --> 03:57:370 Not rations, though those got short enough. 46 03:57:840 --> 03:58:190 No. 47 03:58:630 --> 04:02:440 There's a different kind of hunger one you only get off-planet. 48 04:02:880 --> 04:03:770 Out of rim. 49 04:13:000 --> 04:17:340 The closer to the edge you get, the more you want to taste it. 50 04:18:410 --> 04:22:240 You can't blame a man for madness, can you? 51 04:22:980 --> 04:26:470 It's in our nature, I think. 52 04:26:680 --> 04:30:770 To try things, explore. 53 04:30:860 --> 04:34:030 The sane don't build spaceships. 54 04:34:110 --> 04:36:310 They don't get to see what we see. 55 04:36:580 --> 04:40:240 But maybe that's the problem. 56 04:40:340 --> 04:43:080 Never should have looked up in the first place. 57 04:44:000 --> 04:47:330 They left at night, one by one, bound for Deepwood. 58 04:48:980 --> 04:51:750 Few came back. 59 04:51:850 --> 04:54:180 The ones that did less sane than before. 60 04:54:670 --> 04:57:330 Ain't nothing like it, they'd say. 61 04:57:720 --> 05:01:210 Not a word to describe. 62 05:01:210 --> 05:05:020 Didn't matter. Soon the hunger had me too. 63 05:06:500 --> 05:10:480 Had to taste the madness for myself. 64 05:11:000 --> 05:13:390 Don't know how long I walked. 65 05:13:620 --> 05:17:350 Hours, maybe, days. 66 05:17:590 --> 05:22:980 The trees, they talked to me. 67 05:23:440 --> 05:26:410 Whispered secrets, invited me to stop and sip. 68 05:27:070 --> 05:28:900 But none of them were right. 69 05:29:430 --> 05:32:000 I kept walking till I saw it. 70 05:32:000 --> 05:33:900 Her. 71 05:58:360 --> 06:01:140 The sap touched my lips. 72 06:01:520 --> 06:04:100 The world went black. 73 06:06:850 --> 06:10:200 I wasn't there anymore. 74 06:10:870 --> 06:14:460 I wasn't me. 75 06:14:980 --> 06:17:000 But I was somewhere. 76 06:17:210 --> 06:21:400 Something. 77 06:21:840 --> 06:24:000 A seed in the hand of a stranger. 78 06:24:870 --> 06:27:210 A spark of life for a dead moon. 79 06:39:790 --> 06:47:330 I stretched my roots across continents, across lifetimes, until a barren rock became a paradise. 80 06:48:980 --> 06:54:950 Until the humans had forgotten that a debt was owed. 81 07:06:460 --> 07:09:070 Or they worshipped their own gods. 82 07:10:840 --> 07:13:380 I watched and grew. 83 07:14:840 --> 07:18:220 I climbed their tallest towers 84 07:18:590 --> 07:22:150 and ensnared what they held dear. 85 07:25:270 --> 07:34:030 And while they rested on my achievement, 86 07:34:130 --> 07:42:070 I took back what was rightfully mine. 87 07:43:860 --> 07:54:330 Their fires burned hot on my skin and their bombs tore my body limb from limb. 88 07:54:620 --> 07:57:370 But in their haste to destroy me, 89 07:57:950 --> 08:00:810 the humans destroyed themselves. 90 09:17:660 --> 09:21:040 A months' full burn back to Pax River. 91 09:21:990 --> 09:23:490 I take a drop every day. 92 09:26:650 --> 09:31:810 Thousands of lifetimes, thousands to come. 93 09:43:580 --> 09:47:060 Don't know when we'll get home. 94 09:47:350 --> 09:55:000 But I'll be rich when I get there. 95 09:55:000 --> 09:58:340 When I get there.