While I like the tone and the idea of this monologue, I don't think the ancients would have accepted destruction as aa reward. Moreso, they fought to store information about themselves and how to defeat the Shivans in a final defiance of the Shivans. Or they could just have left it there as atonemen...

I'll take a jab at the whole Ancient civilization idea. Firstly, no one can argue that human civilization has been expanding for thousands of year. We have expanded and continually until we are at this point now: we rule the earth. Notice in the Ancient monolouge: "For thousands of years our empire ...