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this planet was the home of
a mighty and noble race of beings...
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which called themselves the Krell.
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Ethically,
as well as technologically...
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they were a million years
ahead of humankind...
:50:14
for in unlocking
the mysteries of nature...
:50:16
they had conquered
even their baser selves...
:50:19
and when, in the course of eons,
they had abolished sickness...
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and insanity and crime
and all injustice...
:50:26
they turned,
still with high benevolence...
:50:28
outward toward space.
:50:31
Long before the dawn of man's history,
they had walked our Earth...
:50:34
and brought back
many biological specimens.
:50:37
I see. That explains
the tiger and the deer.
:50:42
The heights they had reached...
:50:44
but then, seemingly on the threshold
of some supreme accomplishment...
:50:49
which was to have crowned
their entire history...
:50:52
this all but divine race
perished in a single night.
:50:58
In the 2,000 centuries
since that unexplained catastrophe...
:51:02
even their
cloud-piercing towers...
:51:04
of glass and porcelain
and adamantine steel...
:51:07
have crumbled back into
the soil of Altair-4...
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and nothing, absolutely nothing
remains above ground.
:51:14
What were they like?
:51:17
No record of their
physical nature has survived...
:51:20
except, perhaps, in the form
of this characteristic arch.
:51:25
I suggest you consider it
in comparison to one of our...
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functionally designed human doorways.
:51:47
That recording was made by Krell
musicians a half a million years ago.
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If you will follow me, I will show you
some of their other remaining artifacts.