And 1.11 was the first readable file header.
The screen flickered. A single line of text appeared beneath the map, translated by the Theseus-7 's AI from a language that predated hydrogen: atlantis scan upload 1.11
Not of continents. Not of oceans. Of dimensions . seamless sheet of polished obsidian
A second line of text replaced the first: atlantis scan upload 1.11
It wasn't rock. It was a single, seamless sheet of polished obsidian, stretching up into the crushing blackness and down into the abyssal plain. At 11,000 meters, the pressure should have turned carbon into diamond, yet here was a surface smooth as a calm sea.
Before the Earth cooled. Before the sun ignited. Before the Milky Way had fully formed.