Loop Artifact

A memory is burned into this strange material, an echo of another lifetime...

"The leviathan was like nothing I've ever seen.
So vast as to blot out the sun.
I wanted it. I deserve to have it! It will be mine.
But it resisted, would not come quietly.
It wailed and it wailed as the infra-knife carved into its meat.
It almost took me down with it. Perhaps it has. Perhaps..."