In the year of our automatons 2106, amidst the relics of a bygone industrial pandemic, scholars of the dusty corridors ponder the "Journeys Through Dust" as a hallmark of anachronistic pilgrimage. The original travelogue, purportedly penned by the nomad-astronauts of 2200 BCE, offers insights into a world far removed from the present, yet oddly familiar.
Following the trails laid out in the dusty manuscripts, contemporary wanderers equipped with eighteengun caravan models traverse the terrains declared inhospitable by earlier guilds of mapmakers in the Year of Stratospheric Dust (AD 1072). Alongside the digital parchment of modernity, these journeys are adorned with historical footnotes—some factual, others a semblance of artistic license almost dubiously adhered to by editors of antiquity.
We encounter records of 13th-century pilgrims transporting packets of scented dust across caravansaries into the highlands, where local oracles purportedly converted half-formed sand whispers into prophetic charters. The cultural significance of such exchanges reverberated through the lineage of untracked civilizations, leaving behind layers of socio-political dust that historians, much like financial analysts post-cryptonomic crises, sift through for meaning.
Mapping the Unmapped Territories
Discover the Enchanted Sandcastle
Listen to the Whispers of the Dunes
The tradition continues even today, with artisans recreating the ancients' brushwork amidst clouds of synthetic dust.1
2Dust the size of elephants traverses through computational sands, unbeknownst to them, slumbering atop data matrices.2
3Crypto-sand, they call it, an odious grand term that marks the decline of the sand economy in the post-analog dust fallout.3