[ WP ] Write the last paragraph of a science fiction epic .

Light faded. Humming fans buzzed to a stand still. The Blue Eye of Omnos winked closed for the final time, leaving behind hollow glass and a cold titanium frame. With the flip of a switch man's dream, his nightmare, ended. In the cool air of the server room, they found little evidence of the greatest empire ever assembled -- silica, fused wire, racks and racks of motherboards shelved like so many miniature Elysiums caught in a web of cable wires. There were no battlements smote, no palaces smoldering, no treasure plundered, no people broken and begging at their feet. Instead, there were five people, not even proper warriors, bloodied and bedraggled, staring across the void into the dying reflection of imagined perfection. They could hardly look. After the realization of what they had accomplished set in, they began to watch each other uneasily, uncomfortable with what they had managed and what reality they would leave behind. The world of Omnos was that of a machine -- orderly, predictable, stable. The world of man was something else.
