We could focus on Elias trying to , or perhaps explore what happens when the "overwrite" begins .

Elias looked at his watch. The file he just downloaded was dated two days ago. He looked out his window at the morning sky, waiting for the first flicker of violet to appear in the blue.

But as the probe drifted further away, Elias realized the Earth in the video wasn't the one he lived on. The continents were shifted, the oceans were a deep, unsettling violet, and most terrifyingly, a massive, crystalline structure—larger than any moon—was tethered to the North Pole by a beam of pure, white light.