The only reason we're doing this now, from what they say, is because all preceding cycles were failures.

[ Much of what they've been told comes in bits and scraps, too vague for his liking. These little details, provided they're true, lead to more than a few questions in Yuri's mind. ]

What no one will tell us, among so much else, is just how many times it's been.

[ There's a name for their "generation", but the word means nothing to any of them so far as he has seen. Yuri assumes it's a number, but Aetós had declined to elaborate at the time. ]