"And when the destroyers came at last, what did the Ancients think as they sifted the cremation of dust and bones, staring into the mute remains for a key... Some.. solution to thier plight. What if there had been countless races, stretching back into infinity? And like the nine cities of Troy, each civilization had been built on the rubble the one that came before.. Each.. annhiliated by the Shivans..." The Ancients died 8000 years ago. As humanity emerged from it's neolithic infancy, they believe thier voyage across the sea of stars woke a dragon that slept beneath the waves, that the Shivans were birthed from the flux of subspace, and thier destruction was the revenge of an angry cosmos."
My favorite monologue, though I love all of Bosch Monologue sequences.