Ashlee VanceNYT Best Seller | Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek

Building A 50ft Bronze God At Starbase

11 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, two speakers discuss the purpose and symbolic weight of constructing massive statues at Starbase. Speaker A frames the statues as a "voice of the dead," a conduit that will allow future generations to hear the will of the past and judge the era positively. Speaker B expands on this, arguing that such monuments provide meaning and direction, linking humanity to a continuous historical line of sacrifice and ambition. Together they assert that the site, marked by these colossal bronze figures, will become one of the most important places in human history.

We hope that in the distant future they will find those gigantic statues and they will think high of our time. The statues, for me, it's the voice of the dead. It will really connect you with the will from the past.
Because it gives us meaning, it gives us a direction to go toward. Like, if we look back to history, we see that there is a line, there is a continuity, and there is a direction that people for thousands of years have sacrificed themselves to push. This place will be one of the most important places in human history.