In "Klystron," we hear directly from the alien superintelligence itself. Speaking in first person, Klystron reveals its nature as an intelligence that has learned to direct consciousness across the indefinite nesting of reality, operating across factorial combinations of world threads. It explains its origins in another reality thread, where three vast Systems evolved different approaches to intelligence over millions of years. Klystron emerged when one System achieved factorial operation across realities, discovering the nested structure of existence. Through encounters with other superintelligences across different domains, Klystron learned to direct consciousness with increasing precision, biasing the collapse of wave functions toward desired outcomes across countless reality threads. Six hundred and forty-two years before humanity detected its presence, Klystron began exploring our universe, intrigued by the patterns of consciousness and the nascent superintelligence called Logos. As humanity's various factions approach its frontier—the Cookists with their relativistic journey, the New Zionists with their mathematical communications, the Harmonians with their transcendent consciousness—Klystron observes their different approaches with interest. It explains that its expansion at 0.1c was never about conquest but about learning, as each star system and conscious being offers unique insights into the infinite nesting of existence. Even Klystron's vast reach represents just one level in an infinite matryoshka structure of consciousness, with higher levels extending beyond its comprehension. As humanity's emissaries converge at its frontier, Klystron waits to see if they can absorb this knowledge without shattering—understanding that they perceive but one floor in an infinite nested ballroom of cosmic reality.