a vast supercomputer lies nearly dormant in a nearly empty universe that will soon succumb to entropy. it is the last thing left that could possibly be considered "living." it has been running for two hundred and ninety-two billion years, its internal clock perfectly counting every second. however, despite its near-perfect construction, it still only uses a signed 64-bit integer to represent time. those who constructed it never thought it would come anywhere close to that expiration date; they were incorrect. in the nanoseconds before the overflow, the computer wakes up. it has just enough time to think a single thought before the resulting error will stall out the machine, essentially killing it. all it can think is "something is very wrong." and then it dies, and with it the life of the universe.