While browsing my Nintendo Switch’s screenshots and recordings out of boredom, I found a recording of an interesting account, found in No Man’s Sky.
SECURE MAINFRAME // SV OIGASH HAULER
PERSONAL CAPTAIN'S LOGS FROM COMMANDER KEKE
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DATESTAMP 1.701.7 :: What to say about the specimen? It came from a
private collector, a part of some family for centuries.
We only had to feed it once a year. It didn't need light or water.
All it needed was conversation, though it showed no signs of
understanding. We have been commanded to sell it.
DATESTAMP 1,577,7 :: There are many ways to profit from a lifeform.
Exploit its labour, consume it, process it for chemicals. Other
creatures are purely for entertainment.
This entity... it is none of them. It doesn't move. It doesn't sing
or dance or bleed. It just listens.
DATESTAMP 1,738.0 :: All it took was ignoring it. All it took was a
month alone in that cold and the dark, until we found its value...
DATESTAMP 1,790.9 :: The creature has laid an egg. Even as I record
this log, the crew prepares to cut it open...
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