Elara Voss was an archivist at the International Memory Preservation Institute (IMPI). Her job was to safeguard humanity’s collective heritage, digitizing everything from the earliest cave paintings to the final breaths of a dying star captured by the Event Horizon Array. When the MIDV‑488 4K prototype arrived at IMPI, it was placed in a climate‑controlled vault, its surface polished to a mirror‑like sheen, and a simple plaque read: