Broken Quiver

In the near future, humanity has expanded across the stars by pilfering technology from long extinct civilizations: with every new discovery, something is taken, reverse engineered and integrated into our own designs. For Kevin Pattinson, there is an often ignored question: why does every civilization they encounter look as though they died in some great cataclysm of which there is no trace?

This expansion has come at costs, but one rule has always been consistent: in the event that a resea...