The reports of your death are greatly exaggerated.

[laughs] Yes.

I imagine by this late hour that you've deduced certain things regarding my origin.

I am not, as previously thought, an enigmatic conqueror, or at least that is not all I am.

What I am is far more complex, but also much simpler.

There was a time before time, a time before space, before gravity, before all of it.

And it was in this time that I was, for lack of a better word, born.

Earth