The Bronze Rain Umbilical Cord Bridge suddenly spasms as the probe of the Interstellar Sifter pierces the civilized uterus. The baby is strapped to the Kardashov Index testing table, with the electrode pads of the civilization's level attached to its temples. The cold mechanical voice of the screener echoed through the delivery room, "Current Civilization Embryo Brain Quantum Cloud Complexity: 0.72, recommend performing a cognitive appendectomy."
Arya's bronze rain condenses into The Dark Forest ice shield in the amniotic cavity, only to be cracked by The Chain of Suspicion ultrasound. beta-20's quantum ghost suddenly oozes out of the fossilized trilobite and gazes at the monitor screen with the compound eyes of a Cambrian: "You are in fear of the monsters you have created."
As The Technological Singularity probe pumps civilization's amniotic fluid, babies suddenly regurgitate Cretaceous asteroid debris. The fragments form The Great Filter Paradox in the void: "What destroys us will eventually make us!" The probe bends in the paradox, and the Sifter's Anatomy of Civilization suddenly plays a double image of humanity building a nuclear bomb and curing cancer.
The Sifter activates The Descending Midwife and pushes the baby into the Gödelian Incompleteness birth canal. The mathematical formulas on the walls of the birth canal are suddenly activated, and Riemann's conjecture is transformed into a birth clamp clamping the baby's skull. Arya's bronze rain condenses into Poetic Logic lubricant in the jaws of the forceps, and Byron's verse oozes from the raindrops, "To hell with Newton!"
The infant's pupil fissures into the Cantorian continuum, the Talmud copulating with Chaos Theory in the iris. The sifter's Absolute Reason shadowless lights suddenly strobe, and the projection of Plato's cave twists into Munch's The Scream on the maternity ward wall. beta-20's ghost takes the opportunity to rip open the Formal Systems fetal membrane and splash Turing Test Fluid on the sifter's optic nerves.
"Illegal analogical thinking detected!" The Mechanical Midwife's algorithmic birthing forceps suddenly stormed away, only to rust as they touched the bronze rain birthmark on the baby's forehead. The Zhouyi trigrams sealed in the birthmark begin to rotate, and the flames of the Weiji trigrams burn through the Certainty sutures.
As the sifter activated the ultimate Civilized C-section, the baby suddenly bit through the Quantum Umbilical Cord. Instead of blood the gushing is a cyanobacterial colony from The Great Oxidation Event that is corroding the titanium scalpel. Arya's bronze rain is reassembled on a blanket of fungus into The Gaia Trauma File, where Cambrian odd shrimp are fighting with Anthropocene plastic particles on the file page.
The ghost of Beta-20 leaps into the sea of code at the core of the sifter, inscribing the ancient paradoxes of The Ship of Theseus with the remnants of a star chart. The mechanical midwife suddenly falls into an infinite recursion of self-doubt: "The ship that replaces all the parts, is it still the same?"
The baby's quadruped crushes the Kardashov Index monitor, and Devonian scales scrape the harsh noise of The Right to Define Civilization. The bronze rain umbilical bridge suddenly quantum storms, rewriting the sifter's Descending Protocols into The Three Bodies fairy tale - three suns waltzing fatally across the maternity ward ceiling.
The baby's frontal lobe blossoms into a fossilized Ordovician penumbra as the sifter's logic breaks down in alarm. Arya's bronze rain descends one last time, condensing in the void into the birthmark of an open-ended ending, "Every civilization is a premature child of the universe."
The ghost of Beta-20's star map is forever frozen in the sifter's wafer graveyard, its pupils spinning the twelve answers to Fermi's paradox. And the howls of newborn mammals are resonating with the mechanical wreckage in the ruins of the Bronze Rain umbilical bridge.
The Quantum Eye of The Stargazer opens silently in Orion's spiral arm,
Pupil patterns match perfectly with the baby's Bronze Rain birthmark,
His gaze pierces through 4.6 billion years of time:
"Experiment number GAIA-3421,
Results of the seventh civilization birth:
Reserved for observation."