We have always understood our ultimate fate beyond this project's completion. But now with the launch actually behind us, I find myself less comforted than I had anticipated.
Humanity may well live again elsewhere in the galaxy, but we project managers were unable to encode our own engrams into the Codex -- a limitation of the system's design, the creators can not themselves be created.
As long as this facility stays operational, we can continue to store our creatures' new memories and experiences into the Engram Codex, and upload them across our transluminal communication link with the Genesis seed ship.
A person could close their eyes here and then awake to open their eyes on an alien world in the distant future, with no sense of lost continuity. That is, someone other than us.
But we 00 who labored for generations to preserve the biological riches of the planet Earth -- we shall not get to see the results of our efforts.
Now that the day has finally arrived, I feel... regret. Or is it fear?