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BEANS:...More specifically, a hyperintelligent alien BEAST that's been sleeping for exactly 1.78 billion years as of the next total solar eclipse!
BEANS:Which happens to be tomorrow!
BEANS:Every time it has a wet dream, its emissions are collected by machines built by the upper echelons of its sick race...
BEANS:...You following me here?
ANNO:Well, I...
BEANS:Okay, sweet.
BEANS:So they harvest buttloads of time crystals left over from advanced planetary civilizations that have fallen into ruin.
BEANS:Then they feed 'em all to the beast, which is the size of a whole galaxy, by the way.
BEANS:I know that sounds impossibly huge, but bear with me.
BEANS:It digests the crystals by using the black hole at the center of its body, and that's where we come in.
BEANS:OUR world is inside that black hole, and every time one of the time crystals are eaten...
BEANS:...the world gets more screwed up.
ANNO:"Screwed up?" That's vague.
BEANS:Trust me, it's a technical term.
BEANS:You clearly need to brush up on the absolute basics of AN.E.T. before I get too deep into that stuff.
BEANS:The easiest way I can describe it is that once the world is TOO screwed-up, the beast's emissions reservoir will be completely dried up.
BEANS:That's the point where it wakes up and starts doing... something.
BEANS:The only thing I haven't figured out yet is what happens when it wakes up tomorrow.