“It was a parallel-universe builder, right? Existing in every possible timeline at once—cool shadowspace shit, always theoretically possible but you’d need shadow engines on a whole other order to sustain it—simulating potential realities on a grand scale, constantly, and then someone—you, I guess, or your progenitor Prince Leru—picks the best simulation and the machine drags our whole universe over to that,” he waved his hands about like he was trying to grab a word from the air, “that thread. Which sometimes involves a bit of space-wizard bullshit because the Wisdom also gives you a shortcut
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