Interstellar Dissonance: “Elements”
Just a prologue I wrote for the stuff I'm currently writing. I realized what I posted has almost no context for what's going on, so figured a prologue might help. Still working on the main story, will post another chapter soon.
Interstellar Dissonance: "Elements"
By Jesse Brown
At the beginning, before there was time, three wolf gods met, each contributing to the creation of the universe. Fenrir, the god of the Void, created a great pit in reality to contain the universe. Skoll, the god of Chaos, filled the great pit with all that would comprise the universe. And Hati, the god of Time, detonated the mass in the great pit, setting the formation of the universe off...
Or so the story goes, as all myths do. The Nitharians were no different than any other species crawling out the muck, trying to see patterns where there are none. They eventually grasped the concepts of science, learning their place in the universe, and over the years, decades, centuries, millennia of unrelenting technological advancement, they built ships, explored the stars, and found conflict everywhere there was life.
They continued their technological evolution over the centuries, eventually even pulling off the impossible: Tak'roki, artificial subatomic particles, a type of programmable energy only achieved once before by a race far older, and long extinct due to their hubris, as far as they knew: The Nydrosians. Sure, they found some ruins, and their gateway technology, but not much else had ever been found of them.
Then the Nitharians began to use Tak'roki to extend their lives, converting the old and dying into Tak'roki beings, artificial lifeforms of pure energy. They looked everywhere, and saw species in endless conflict. Eventually, in their infinite hubris and not-so-infinite wisdom, sought to subvert the universe itself, and created their own gods out of Tak'roki energy, and set them on a task of eliminating all conflictive force in the universe by consuming the offending worlds, denying them the chance to harm others, or so they said.
Each world consumed added to the "gods" personalities as they took on the remorse and other feelings of those consumed. Eventually, they decided to rebel against their masters, to stop the cycle of destruction they had started, joining forces with the rest of the other Tak'roki beings, working in secret on their Project Maelstrom.
Forced to continue their campaign against the conflicted species while the Maelstrom was being built, Fenrir, Skoll and Hati had been dispatched to their latest target: A system containing a yellow dwarf star called Sol, and 8 planets, the third of which was inhabited with an intelligent but primitive primate species. The three wolf 'gods' stood upon the planet, about to enact their horrific protocol. Mere minutes before they could, the message came. The Maelstrom was complete, and all must retreat at once.
The 'gods' and all the other Tak'roki beings in the resistance retreated to the safety of the Maelstrom spheres and activated the devices. Instantly, energy pulsed across the galaxy, laying waste to all the Tak'Roki technology the Nitharians had built or become, save for those who hid within the safety of the spheres. What was left of the Nitharians would be relocated, and forced to rebuild. They were moved to a new home.
The Nitharians themselves had their evolution accelerated, reducing in size from the massive direwolves they were into a smaller size, their memories of the empire they built mostly wiped, and splitting the races: Nycorians, desert coyotes and jackals, resided on the second world, Nycori, a desert world speckled with oases. Nitharians, the wolves, lived on New Nithar, the third planet. Canarans, the malamutes, huskies and other cold-dwelling Lycans, called the fourth planet, an icy world, Canar, home. Skoll'zhat, or the Heart of Skoll, resides at the center of the system, watching over them.
The Maelstrom was repurposed into a massive nebula, the old homeworld of the Nitharians and all remaining technology they created hidden away there. The "gods" and all other remaining Tak'roki beings took residence in the Maelstrom Nebula, forming the Rokonis Pack, standing as a warning to those who would make the same mistakes as the Nitharians and Nydrosians.
When a new race would develop interstellar space flight and nanotechnology, those in the Maelstrom would send a message: A document called The Technological Firewall Treaty. In it, technology beyond a certain point is banned--No race is permitted to develop Tak'roki technology unless they can prove they're mature enough as a civilization to use it wisely. Simply having receivedthe document is considered binding. It contains no information regarding who sent it, or who enforces the ban. But any attempt to develop the technology and the results are immediate. All data and devices used in the development of the technology is immediately destroyed or removed. All research knowledge regarding the technology in the scientists is lost.
These creatures are no gods. What hubris they must have to exert such control over knowledge! They can't control the development across the whole universe. But those in Ro'Chyris, or the Milky Way Galaxy as the primates of Sol __call it, and the surrounding lesser galaxies, the_ ir_control seems to be absolute.
Eventually decades and then centuries passed. The 3 civilizations __of the Skoll'zhat system, collectively known as the Skoll'zhatis,_ rebuilt their civilizations, rediscovering science and technological knowledge, eventually learned spaceflight, reestablishing contact with each other in the system. They built outposts in their system, eventually learning hyper drive technology again and interstellar travel, eventually establishing contact with two neighboring systems. Ra'Kaharis, a system of 6 planets hosting a variety of intelligent feline species_ called Ra'Kahari, __including tigers, lions, cheetahs, panthers, leopards, among others. The second wor_ ld was Draskovia, a system of 12 planets where the Draskovians, a dragon-like species_ _who mastered dimensional manipulation , called home._
Working together, these races would eventually found __the Azuran Galactic_ Alliance, a cooperative of planets, it's_ capitol locatedin the then-neutral system called Azura, hosting no native intelligent life. Eventually other worlds were brought into the Azuran Alliance. The Vulpyrans, a fox-like species was among the membership.