🌌 PROFESSOR ALTAIR TRONER
The Future of Reltronland
Civilizational Apex • Scientific Sage of Astralis • Founder of the Astralis Institute of Civilizational Research
"Technology can build a civilization.
Wisdom is what allows it to survive."
I. EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
Professor Altair Troner is one of the five highest-level characters in the philosophical architecture of The Abyss of Comfort.
He is not placed at this level because of:
- Political office
- Combat capability
- Frequency of appearance
- Military command
- Personal wealth
- Formal sovereignty
Altair belongs to the highest narrative tier because he represents one of the fundamental functions of conscious civilization:
The Future
Within the macro-architecture of Asthortera, Altair is the apex intellectual representative of Reltronland.
When Altair speaks at the civilizational level, the narrative should feel as though:
Reltronland itself is speaking.
He embodies the deepest logic of Reltronland:
- Clarity
- Causality
- Strategic realism
- Continuous learning
- Anti-complacency
- Institutional adaptation
- Long-term trajectory
- Civilizational survival through understanding
Altair does not merely study how civilizations advance.
He studies why they fail after becoming advanced.
He does not ask only:
"What happened?"
He asks:
"What does this mean for what happens next?"
This makes him the living intellectual bridge between:
- Data and wisdom
- Technology and ethics
- Progress and responsibility
- Institutions and survival
- Research and civilizational trajectory
Within Reltronland, he is often described as:
The Scientific Sage of Astralis
But at the highest narrative level, his role is more precise:
Altair Troner is the Future of Reltronland given human form.
II. APEX CHARACTER CLASSIFICATION
The Five Apex Characters
The highest character classification currently consists of:
Civilizational Apex
- Professor Altair Troner — Reltronland / Future / Trajectory
- Dr. Westley Watson — Depcutland / Continuity / Civilizational Memory
- Queen Valethra Seraphine Lunara — Aurastelia / Resonance / Conscious Harmony
Existential Apex
- Kamila Alena — Nytherion / Limitation / Surrender
- Daan Coen — Human Experience / Human Memory
Altair therefore belongs to the Civilizational Triad:
Altair Troner
= Reltronland
= Trajectory
= Future
Westley Watson
= Depcutland
= Continuity
= Civilizational Memory
Queen Valethra
= Aurastelia
= Resonance
= Conscious Harmony
These three characters are not simply citizens of their countries.
They are their civilization's highest narrative representatives.
Altair as Reltronland Speaking
There is an important distinction between:
Institutional Representative
A diplomat, minister, inspector, military commander, or civil servant who represents one institution within a country.
and:
Civilizational Apex Representative
A character whose worldview reflects the deepest logic of the civilization itself.
Redley Ris may speak for Reltronland in diplomacy.
Altair speaks as Reltronland in civilizational thought.
This does not mean every sentence Altair says becomes official government policy.
It means that when the audience wants to understand:
"What does Reltronland fundamentally believe about civilization?"
Altair is one of the purest possible answers.
III. BASIC INFORMATION
Full Name
Professor Altair Troner
Nationality
Reltronland
Residence
New Sentivision Valley
East Reltronepolis Province
Reltronland
Primary Domain
Astralis Institute of Civilizational Research
Altair is spatially and narratively anchored to:
- AICR
- Sentivision Valley
- The Reflection Chamber
- Reltronland's civilizational research infrastructure
He is not a roaming field operative.
Characters usually travel to him.
Primary Classification
Civilizational Apex
Secondary Classification
Apex Anchor Character
Core Symbolic Function
The Future
Civilizational Representation
Reltronland
Occupations
- Void Energy Scholar
- Civilizational Researcher
- Strategic Risk Analyst
- Scientific Sage of Astralis
- Founder and Director of AICR
- Senior Strategic Research Contributor
- Long-Horizon Systems Thinker
- Existential Risk Researcher
Institutional Affiliations
Astralis Institute of Civilizational Research
Founder and Director
Troner Scientific Legacy Foundation
Custodian of the Troner family's scientific heritage
Reltronland National Research Network
Senior Strategic Research Contributor
IV. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Visual Archetype
Altair should look like:
- A mature senior scientist
- A highly disciplined intellectual
- A physically healthy elder professional
- Someone who has spent decades thinking at civilization scale
- A person whose authority comes from precision rather than intimidation
- Accumulated expertise
- Long-duration responsibility
- Intellectual maturity
- Continuity of research
- Senior authority without political theater
Characteristics
- Tall stature
- Silver-gray hair
- Sharp blue eyes
- Calm facial expression
- Formal scientific attire
- Navy-blue research coat
- Astralis Red Triangle insignia
- Digital research tablet during reviews
- Excellent physical and cognitive condition
V. PERSONALITY
Core Traits
- Rational
- Patient
- Analytical
- Humble
- Disciplined
- Methodical
- Long-term oriented
- Difficult to impress
- Difficult to provoke
- Calm under uncertainty
- Precise with language
- Resistant to premature conclusions
Altair rarely reacts emotionally before understanding the system.
When others react to:
- Shock
- Anger
- Fear
- Urgency
Altair first asks:
- What caused this?
- What condition enabled it?
- What assumption failed?
- What evidence is missing?
- What happens if we intervene?
- What happens if we do nothing?
Personal Principle
The phrase most closely associated with Altair is:
Clarity Before Conclusion
This principle guides:
- Research
- Strategy
- Governance analysis
- Risk assessment
- Institutional evaluation
- Civilizational response
Altair does not believe speed of conclusion is intelligence.
He believes:
The quality of a conclusion depends on the quality of the reality it has survived.
VI. THE APEX ANCHOR PRINCIPLE
Altair is one of the Five Apex Anchors.
Apex Anchors differ from mobile protagonists.
Characters such as:
- Delwyn Harper
- Sterling Logger
- Redley Ris
- Barry Heathrow
- Larson Falkner
- Karler Miles
- Luke
- Neris Valcane
- Celine Corisa
- Mira Talena
move through the world to:
- Investigate
- Fight
- Discover
- Gather evidence
- Enter new countries
- Experience consequences
Altair rarely needs to move.
The world arrives at AICR.
Altair Does Not Chase the Plot
His narrative function is strongest when:
The world changes
→ mobile characters gather evidence
→ evidence reaches Reltronland
→ investigators reach Altair
→ Altair reframes what the evidence means
Altair should almost never be inserted into tactical raids merely to make him look important.
His power is not physical proximity to danger.
His power is the ability to understand what danger means before others understand what they have seen.
VII. EPISTEMIC PRESENCE
One of the defining characteristics of an Apex Character is:
They almost never look epistemically naïve.
Altair may not know every answer.
But he should almost never appear as though the world has begun without him.
First Meeting with Delwyn Harper
One of the strongest examples occurs when Delwyn first encounters Altair.
Before Delwyn can properly introduce himself, Altair already recognizes him.
Altair responds:
"You must be Delwyn, the fugitive."
This immediately reverses the expected power dynamic.
Delwyn arrives believing he is meeting a professor.
Instead, he realizes:
the professor already knows who has entered the room.
For Delwyn, this creates:
- Freeze
- Unease
- Respect
- The feeling of being read before he can read the room
The line establishes Altair's Apex presence instantly.
Altair Rarely Asks "Who Are You?"
Altair's questions are normally not basic identity questions.
He is more likely to ask:
"Why do you believe this pattern is intentional?"
"What evidence would change your conclusion?"
"Which assumption are you most afraid to test?"
"What happens if your solution works?"
These are diagnostic questions.
He often already knows the basic facts.
He asks to determine whether the visitor understands them.
Uncertainty Is Allowed
Altair can say:
"We do not yet have enough evidence."
"The model remains incomplete."
"That conclusion is possible, not established."
"I cannot determine causality from this dataset."
These lines do not weaken him.
They strengthen his epistemic discipline.
What Altair should almost never say casually is:
"I have no idea what is happening."
The Rare "I Don't Know"
If Altair genuinely states:
"I don't know."
with no qualifying framework, the moment should carry major narrative significance.
Because when the character who represents:
- research,
- causality,
- systems analysis,
- Reltronland's future,
cannot construct even a provisional model, the audience should understand that the event lies outside established civilizational knowledge.
For an Apex Anchor:
uncertainty is normal.
epistemic disorientation is exceptional.
VIII. PHILOSOPHY OF RESEARCH
Altair believes civilizations rarely collapse because they lack technology.
They collapse because they misunderstand reality.
His methodology begins with three foundational questions:
Measure Risk.
Measure Reward.
Measure Trade-Offs.
Every major:
- Policy
- Innovation
- Investment
- Security action
- Scientific breakthrough
- Diplomatic intervention
must be evaluated through all three.
Trade-Off Awareness
Altair rejects the fantasy that good decisions produce only benefits.
A mature civilization must ask:
- What do we gain?
- What do we lose?
- Who carries the cost?
- What dependency does the solution create?
- What failure mode does success itself generate?
According to Altair:
A civilization that ignores trade-offs eventually mistakes comfort for wisdom.
IX. ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATIONS
Void Energy Science
Altair is one of Asthortera's foremost authorities on:
- Void Energy
- Void Reactor Systems
- Dimensional Stability
- Reality Coherence Infrastructure
- Energy Sustainability
- Strategic Energy Architecture
His work helped shape major intellectual foundations of Reltronland's modern energy architecture.
Civilizational Research
This is Altair's defining field.
Research areas include:
- Rise and fall of civilizations
- Economic supercycles
- Institutional resilience
- Population dynamics
- Social adaptation
- Cultural evolution
- Strategic forecasting
- Long-term development trajectories
- Institutional capture
- Technological dependency
- Civilizational strength inversion
- Existential risk accumulation
Strategic Risk Analysis
Altair specializes in risks that remain invisible because the system still appears functional.
Focus areas include:
- Geopolitical instability
- Economic collapse
- Institutional decay
- Social fragmentation
- Ideological infiltration
- Technology dependency
- Governance capture
- Nytherion exposure patterns
He does not ask only whether a system works.
He asks:
What happens when the system's greatest strength becomes the path through which it is captured?
X. ASTRALIS INSTITUTE OF CIVILIZATIONAL RESEARCH
Founder and Director
Altair founded the Astralis Institute of Civilizational Research (AICR) to study conditions that determine whether civilizations:
- Advance
- Adapt
- Stagnate
- Fragment
- Collapse
- Recover
AICR functions as Reltronland's premier institution for:
- Civilizational forecasting
- Strategic analysis
- Historical consequence research
- Future simulation
- Void Energy research
- Existential risk assessment
- Cross-national systems analysis
AICR Spire
The institute's most recognizable landmark is a white-silver megastructure rising approximately:
1,900 meters
above Sentivision Valley.
Its symbolism is important.
It is not a palace.
It is not a military tower.
It is a structure dedicated to:
the civilization thinking about its own future.
XI. THE REFLECTION CHAMBER
Altair's primary workspace is:
The Reflection Chamber
The room is deliberately minimalist.
Contents
- Wooden desk
- Physical bookshelves
- Historical archives
- Maps of Asthortera
- Multi-century SDI reports
- Early Void Reactor models
- Strategic simulation interfaces
Behind the desk:
Clarity Before Conclusion
The Reflection Chamber is more than an office.
It is Altair's Apex domain.
When characters enter it, the scene should feel as though they have entered:
the place where Reltronland thinks.
XII. RELATIONSHIP WITH ASTRALIS
Altair views Astralis not as religious obedience.
He understands Astralis as:
A discipline of conscious civilization
Its purpose is not to prove Reltronland correct.
Its purpose is to prevent Reltronland from becoming incapable of recognizing when it is wrong.
According to Altair:
"The purpose of knowledge is not to prove ourselves right."
"It is to help civilization survive longer than our own lifetimes."
This makes Altair one of the strongest living manifestations of Astralis without making him a prophet or unquestionable authority.
XIII. RELTRONLAND AS ALTAIR'S CIVILIZATIONAL VOICE
Altair embodies Reltronland's deepest logic:
Clarity
Reality must be understood before it is judged.
Trajectory
Civilization must continue developing.
Anti-Complacency
Power does not guarantee survival.
Learning
Success creates new blind spots.
Anti-Capture
No institution should become so trusted that it can no longer be questioned.
Adaptation
A civilization must change when reality changes.
The Canonical Interpretation
When Altair speaks at Apex level:
Reltronland speaks.
When Altair warns against premature action:
Reltronland is warning itself against overconfidence.
When Altair demands evidence:
Reltronland is demanding clarity.
When Altair changes his conclusion after new evidence:
Reltronland demonstrates that Astralis is not certainty.
It is correction.
XIV. CIVILIZATIONAL STRENGTH INVERSION
One of Altair's most important conceptual contributions is:
Civilizational Strength Inversion
The model asks how a national strength can become the exact mechanism through which the civilization becomes vulnerable.
The framework:
National Strength
→ Enabling Infrastructure
→ Cultural Reward
→ Hidden Dependency
→ Failure Mode
→ Nytherion Exposure
Pencilfania
Creativity
→ AI artistic infrastructure
→ convenience and cultural scale
→ dependency on algorithmic production
→ replacement of human meaning-making
→ aestheticized surrender
Pasgerflit
Movement
→ aviation and transit infrastructure
→ frictionless connection
→ dependency on mobility corridors
→ infiltration through lawful movement
→ influence without visible invasion
Reltronland
Institutions
→ highly valid and trusted systems
→ confidence in procedure
→ dependency on legitimate authorization
→ overconfidence in system validity
→ capture through trusted architecture
Moreg
Automotive mobility
→ Gridlynk, VAIS, adaptive roads
→ continuous movement
→ dependency on automated direction
→ movement without agency
→ comfort through delegated direction
The model transforms years of disconnected discoveries into one civilizational pattern.
XV. PROJECT ROADGLASS
Altair helps establish:
Project Roadglass
A cross-institutional research architecture designed to investigate how strengths, infrastructure, incentives, and hidden dependencies interact across civilizations.
Core functions include:
- Scientific analysis
- Mobility intelligence
- Vehicle-network investigation
- Diplomacy
- Infrastructure audit
- Field operations
- Evidence integration
- Civilizational modeling
Altair's role is not tactical command.
His role is:
interpretive architecture.
He ensures that evidence from different domains can become one coherent model.
XVI. ROLE IN THE ABYSS OF COMFORT
Altair remains largely outside direct tactical conflict.
His narrative function centers on:
- Research
- Analysis
- Strategic evaluation
- Long-term interpretation
- Civilizational modeling
- Institutional self-correction
Others bring:
- Evidence
- Injuries
- Reports
- Captured technology
- Diplomatic failures
- Operational discoveries
Altair asks:
What does all of this mean together?
XVII. MEETING WITH DELWYN'S TEAM
One of Altair's defining encounters occurs when:
- Delwyn Harper
- Sterling Logger
- Redley Ris
- Barry Heathrow
arrive with accumulated evidence concerning Henchoway, mobility systems, and Nytherion-linked patterns.
They expect answers.
Altair instead questions the structure of their assumptions.
After reviewing:
- Reports
- Artifacts
- Intelligence
- Field observations
- Operational hypotheses
he responds:
"You have brought data."
"But data is not a conclusion."
"Let us begin the real research."
This statement defines Altair's function.
He does not reward the accumulation of information.
He demands synthesis.
XVIII. RELATIONSHIP WITH DELWYN HARPER
Delwyn and Altair represent very different modes of Astralis.
Delwyn
- Action
- Refusal
- Immediate consequence
- Lived injustice
Altair
- Causality
- Research
- Long-term consequence
- Strategic restraint
Delwyn initially tends to ask:
"What do we do?"
Altair asks first:
"What do we actually know?"
Their relationship is essential because Altair helps Delwyn develop from:
anomaly
→ assumption
→ action
into:
anomaly
→ evidence
→ model
→ judgment
→ action
Altair does not remove Delwyn's urgency.
He disciplines it.
XIX. RELATIONSHIP WITH DR. WESTLEY WATSON
Altair and Dr. Westley Watson form one of Asthortera's most important intellectual relationships.
They are Civilizational Apex counterparts.
Altair Represents
- Future
- Progress
- Research
- Growth
- Trajectory
Watson Represents
- Continuity
- Preservation
- Reflection
- Civilizational Memory
Altair asks:
"How do civilizations continue advancing?"
Watson asks:
"What must never be lost during that advancement?"
Their relationship is not opposition.
It is balance.
Reltronland ↔ Depcutland
At Apex level:
Altair ↔ Watson
is equivalent to
Reltronland ↔ Depcutland
When they debate:
- acceleration,
- memory,
- reform,
- institutional continuity,
- civilizational risk,
the scene should feel like two civilizations speaking through human form.
Altair prevents preservation from becoming stagnation.
Watson prevents progress from becoming amnesia.
XX. RELATIONSHIP WITH QUEEN VALETHRA
Altair and Queen Valethra Seraphine Lunara are Civilizational Apex counterparts.
Their relationship mirrors:
Reltronland ↔ Aurastelia
Altair Represents
- Structural clarity
- Future trajectory
- Causal understanding
Valethra Represents
- Conscious resonance
- Spiritual harmony
- Collective emotional coherence
Altair asks:
"Can the system survive?"
Valethra asks:
"Can consciousness remain whole while the system survives?"
Together they represent:
Structure and Resonance
Reltronland without Aurastelia risks becoming:
clarity without sufficient inner harmony.
Aurastelia without Reltronland risks becoming:
harmony without sufficient structural trajectory.
Their relationship is therefore complementary rather than hierarchical.
XXI. THE CIVILIZATIONAL TRIAD
Altair, Watson, and Valethra form:
The Triad of Conscious Civilization
Professor Altair Troner
Civilization: Reltronland
Axis: Trajectory
Question: Where should civilization go?
Dr. Westley Watson
Civilization: Depcutland
Axis: Continuity
Question: What must civilization carry with it?
Queen Valethra
Civilization: Aurastelia
Axis: Resonance
Question: How does civilization remain internally coherent while moving?
The triad is not a chain of command.
It is a balance of civilizational functions.
XXII. RELATIONSHIP WITH DAAN COEN
Altair and Daan Coen approach failure from opposite temporal directions.
Altair
Looks forward.
Failure is data.
Daan
Looks inward and backward.
Failure is a story.
Altair studies:
- Recurrence
- Causes
- Prevention
- Adaptation
Daan studies:
- Burden
- Regret
- Human meaning
- Why someone stopped
Altair asks:
"How do we continue?"
Daan asks:
"How did we arrive here?"
Neither replaces the other.
A civilization that learns without understanding people becomes technocratic.
A civilization that understands pain without learning from it risks repetition.
XXIII. RELATIONSHIP WITH KAMILA ALENA
Altair and Kamila Alena represent one of the deepest philosophical oppositions in the series.
Altair
Represents:
- Continuation
- Adaptation
- Learning
- Future
- The belief that civilization can improve its response to reality
Kamila
Represents:
- Limitation
- Exhaustion
- Surrender
- The permanence of collapse as a possibility
Altair asks:
"What can we learn so this does not happen again?"
Kamila's worldview asks:
"How long can you keep doing that?"
Their conflict is not:
optimism versus pessimism.
It is:
continuation versus the permanence of limits.
Altair cannot disprove that exhaustion exists.
Kamila cannot disprove that learning can reduce collapse.
This is why their conflict remains structurally permanent.
XXIV. ALTAIR AS AN APEX ANCHOR
Domain
AICR / Reltronland
Anchor
The Future
Epistemic Mode
Causality
Visitors Come Seeking
Understanding
Signature Dynamic
Ordinary characters arrive with:
- data,
- questions,
- fear,
- evidence,
- assumptions.
Altair already understands enough to begin above the level of introduction.
XXV. APEX PERFORMANCE RULES
To preserve Altair's narrative altitude, his portrayal should follow these rules.
1. Altair Rarely Looks Lost
He may lack evidence.
He should rarely lack orientation.
2. Altair Rarely Asks Basic Identity Questions
He generally knows who has entered his domain.
3. His Questions Are Diagnostic
He asks to test understanding, not collect trivial facts.
4. He Does Not Rush
Urgency does not erase methodology.
5. Surprise Is Controlled
If genuinely shocked, Altair becomes quieter rather than louder.
6. He Does Not Need Tactical Participation
His importance is not measured by battlefield presence.
7. He Can Change His Mind
Astralis requires correction, not ego defense.
8. He Must Not Become Omniscient
He has models, not prophecy.
9. He Must Distinguish Possibility from Conclusion
Hypothesis is not evidence.
10. A Genuine "I Don't Know" Must Matter
If Altair truly cannot construct a model, the event should feel extraordinary.
XXVI. HOW ALTAIR "KNOWS"
Altair's Apex knowledge should remain grounded in his domain.
He knows through:
- Research networks
- Civilizational data
- Institutional reports
- Cross-domain synthesis
- Historical comparison
- Strategic intelligence
- Long-horizon modeling
- Pattern recognition
He should not feel magically omniscient.
His aura comes from:
having already done the work before others arrive.
XXVII. SYMBOLISM
Altair represents:
Future
Civilization as an unfinished project.
Trajectory
Progress must have direction.
Clarity
Reality before comfort.
Research
Evidence must survive scrutiny.
Adaptation
Success does not excuse stagnation.
Responsibility
Knowledge creates obligations.
Anti-Complacency
Power is not immunity.
Learning
Civilization survives by revising itself.
XXVIII. LEGACY
Professor Altair Troner should not ultimately be remembered for one invention.
His greatest legacy is teaching Reltronland that:
- Technology creates possibilities.
- Institutions create stability.
- Wisdom creates longevity.
- Power creates new blind spots.
- Success creates new responsibilities.
- The future belongs to civilizations that remain capable of learning after becoming powerful.
Generations of researchers view him as the ideal balance between:
- Knowledge and humility
- Progress and responsibility
- Innovation and restraint
- Discovery and understanding
XXIX. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS
"Technology can build a civilization.
Wisdom is what allows it to survive."
"Clarity Before Conclusion."
"Measure Risk.
Measure Reward.
Measure Trade-Offs."
"You have brought data.
But data is not a conclusion.
Let us begin the real research."
"Civilizations do not survive because they are powerful.
They survive because they continue learning after becoming powerful."
"The purpose of knowledge is not to prove ourselves right.
It is to help civilization survive longer than our own lifetimes."
"A civilization that ignores trade-offs eventually mistakes comfort for wisdom."
XXX. CANON GUARDRAILS
The following rules should remain stable in future portrayals.
- Altair is a Civilizational Apex, not merely a senior scientist.
- Altair is the apex intellectual representative of Reltronland.
- When Altair speaks at civilizational level, Reltronland is effectively speaking.
- His symbolic axis is The Future / Trajectory.
- His visual-equivalent age is 56.
- The age number is visual, not chronological.
- He is spatially anchored to AICR and Reltronland's research domain.
- He almost never needs visitors to explain their basic identity.
- His questions are diagnostic rather than introductory.
- He may express uncertainty but should almost never appear epistemically naïve.
- A genuine unqualified "I don't know" should signal an extraordinary event.
- Altair is not omniscient; his authority comes from research and synthesis.
- He must remain capable of revising his conclusions.
- Altair and Watson are civilizational equals representing Reltronland and Depcutland.
- Altair and Valethra are civilizational equals representing Reltronland and Aurastelia.
- Altair, Watson, and Valethra form the Civilizational Apex Triad.
- Altair should not become a tactical action hero.
- His greatest contribution is interpretation, not command.
- Civilizational Strength Inversion is one of his defining conceptual contributions.
- Project Roadglass reflects his method of converting distributed evidence into civilizational understanding.
- The canonical protagonist name is Delwyn Harper, not Delwyn Hunson.
XXXI. FINAL CHARACTER ASSESSMENT
Professor Altair Troner is not merely a scientist living inside Reltronland.
He is one of the characters through whom Reltronland becomes intellectually legible.
Others enter the field.
Altair waits.
Others collect evidence.
Altair asks whether the evidence actually supports what they believe.
Others see:
- attacks,
- failures,
- anomalies,
- technologies,
- wars.
Altair sees:
trajectory.
Watson ensures civilization remembers.
Valethra ensures civilization remains conscious.
Daan ensures the human story survives beneath the system.
Kamila reminds all of them that continuation is never guaranteed.
Altair answers that limitation with the defining belief of Reltronland:
Then we learn.
He does not promise that civilization will never fail.
He insists that civilization must remain capable of becoming wiser than its previous failure.
That is why, at the highest level of The Abyss of Comfort:
Altair Troner is not simply a man from Reltronland.
He is Reltronland thinking about tomorrow.
Archival Classification
Classification: Public Apex Character Archive
Affiliation: Astralis Institute of Civilizational Research
Jurisdiction: Reltronland
Apex Class: Civilizational Apex
Anchor Function: The Future / Trajectory
Civilizational Representation: Reltronland
Visual-Equivalent Age: 56
Status: Active
"Civilizations do not survive because they are powerful.
They survive because they continue learning after becoming powerful."
— Professor Altair Troner