Prologue

"I'm recording, right?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, okay. If you're hearing this message, then you are a higher species of life, successors to us. We, if you can understand us, are human. We may be much like you-"
"Not likely."
"Or, as my assistant says, completely different. We have only left this recorded message to you to let you know that we exist, and our species is on its last legs."
"We don't want to be aggressive. We're just helping you with research on this planet you know next to nothing about. This world stretches further back then you can believe."
"We will leave the rest to your imagination. Consider this your only primary source."

The old device stopped its whirring and one of its buttons flicked up.
"Do you have any idea what they're saying?" an inkling investigator inquired.
"Not a clue." Her colleague responded.