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regards the ending as allegorical, stating that the destruction of the ancient temple triggering a landslide that obliterates the desalination plant represents "humanity's spiritual past crashing down on humanity's technological visions".
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with the power to create functioning copies of destroyed people or objects and use them to carry out acts of aggression against humanity. Earth is defended by a military organisation called
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