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==History== | ==History== | ||
===The Ancient Past=== | |||
Millions upon millions of years ago, long before the Traveler visited Earth, the Taishibethi system was the home to an advanced starfaring power called the Hierarchy of Hierarchies. Made up of the enigmatic Crystaliens, originating from a Panthallassic superterrestial called Titania, and the insectoid Hivers, from a trio of worlds, the Hierarchy engaged itself in immense megascale engineering projects and stellar transformation. Their system was located in a portion of the galaxy where metallicity was low, with the only major concentration being located in their star, and so they had embarked upon a starlifting project designed to harvest their star of its resources. They had a defensive fleet that patrolled the outer reaches of their worlds. | |||
Then one day their long-range sensors detected movement in the deepest parts of the Oort cloud, coming from the Traveler; it was moving at incredible speeds, almost 70% c, and the reason for this became readily apparent. Behind the sphere pursued an enormous fleet of mobile planetoids, an alien species' war moons and their escorts, ten thousand ships to a moon. Reaching consensus quickly the Hierarchy knew their fleet stood no chance against the alien forces, and instead mobilized their starlifter. Pointing its focusing arrays towards the Traveler, they directed a large quantity of starstuff in the path of the fleet and burned them away. The Traveler survived, yet damaged by previous clashes with the hostile aliens. It drifted idly into orbit of Titania and went dormant. | |||
The Hierarchy's leadership—the Great Council—reached out to the sphere and tried to determine what lay within, a singular mind as they sensed, or a collective consciousness dissimilar yet almost kin to their own, as they also sensed. What they found was an all-consuming dream, and the Great Council went catatonic. The rest of the Hierarchy went into a panic, but could not retaliate due to the Traveler's close presence to their capital world. Months later, the Council awoke, and announced to the Hive Monarch that the Traveler was a god(dess) and must be healed if it was to repay them for their help. | |||
===The | The reconstruction of the Traveler's shell began. Isotope analysis determined it was made of neutronium, which confused their scientists greatly as there was no material that dense close by. Nonetheless they labored, extracting huge amounts of material from their home sun—which grew dimmer and dimmer as it lost more mass—and converted it via immense pressure into neutronium pieces to replace the Traveler's shell. As the construction demanded ever more material the inner system was demolished, the Hivers sacrificing their homeworlds for the project, and the outer system of all gas and ice taken, the Oort cloud depleted and the four Jovians drained dry. What was left was added to Titania, which slowly began to change as the light of their star left it, and it ceased to be an ocean world. Finally, after many centuries and centuries of careful work, the pristine surface of the Traveler was whole again—at the cost of Taishibeth becoming a white dwarf, the conversion of Titania into a SuperJovian with all remaining material and the collation of every remaining planetary body deemed unessential to construction in its orbit. The Council, or what was left of the original seven hundred who first contacted the Traveler, now immensely old, deemed the god(dess) was healed and whole. | ||
The Traveler sent out a pulse of paracasual power. It washed through the entire system at a speed which defied physics—and time itself turned backwards. Taishibeth was restored to its youth, three more Jovians and their attendant satellite systems joined the rest in the outer system, and the Hivers' three homeworlds were reborn, free of all scarring and pollution. Titania was left as it was, for the Crystalien species had modified themselves to exist in this new world and most had forgotten how the old had been, but was gifted an enormous ring system and many satellites. Their starlifter was no more but in its place were metal rich planetoids and bodies in a new and gargantuan ring system that lay between the Hiver homeworlds and Titania. Last, but not least, was the fleet which had pursued the Traveler, empty and cleansed of all evil influence. The Hierarchy had enough material to last them endless millennia. | |||
The Traveler then gestated a marker, a black obelisk that spoke with the voice of a woman, to remind the Taishibethi that one day it would return home; and then it left, moving out into the void for new adventures. | |||
===The Shattering=== | |||
===Evacuation of Earth=== | ===Evacuation of Earth=== | ||