The four dimensional hard drive was supposed to be revolutionary. I guess in a sense it still is, but it's also not something we can't release to the public in good conscience. Not without more restrictions on what you can and can not read.
The 4Drive, as we named it, exists outside of time. All files put onto the hardrive exist on the hard drive regardless of when it is accessed, including the past.
When we turned on the computer a single file existed on the 4Drive. We knew it was a distinct possibility, this was basically just a confirmation that a future existed outside of our perception, but we expected far more data to exist on the drive.
The file was dated one year and three days into the future. It's content was chilling.
"To those accessing this file in the past, I regret to inform you that we have failed. The 4Drive has been a stunning success, but we completed the project too late. A month before the creation of the first 4drive a message was beamed into space using a new form of bilinear photon messaging. It travels faster and farther than any other message sent, and it too was both a great success and catastrophic failure.
At the edge of our solar system, which is now around the orbit of Saturn after the destruction and collection of the outermost planets, there is a planet sized ship. We don't know what it's exact objective is, but it seems to be strip mining our solar system.
We first noticed it when Neptune disappeared from the sky, replaced by the massive black objet. We tried communicating with it, but there was no response until yesterday.
'We're sorry'
Two simple words they must have put together based on the intercepted communications.
The only conclusion we can make is that it intends to swallow us like everything else in its path. There is no escape and its rapid approach suggests we have less than a week to determine a solution. I write this now to ensure you have more time to consider humanity's options, but if we find a solution I will write a separate file to ensure you have a better chance than we do now."
