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Conflict:
FREESPACE
The Great War
This is the story of a conflict spanning across millions of galaxies,
Millions of eons,
Millions of innocent victims,
Millions of evaporated civilizations,
And the death of a dream,
All inevitable losses of the horrible war,
Without an end?
This is the story of the Great War.
A time countless eons ago, when the Universe was still young, and Sentience stood in its infancy, the Great War began. Sentience was designed to eventually reach a level of Our equal, so that it could be at our side, ever awing at the endless beauty and perfection of Our creation. Without Sentience, We would’ve been all alone.
Sentience would spring from advanced life, which would manifest in physical form, eventually transforming into the astral form. This process would take almost an eternity, but the project would surely be worth it.
Approximately 800.000.000.000 years BC, Terran counting, life was in its most advanced form, and Sentience was born. There were actually four separate sentient species that evolved simultaneously. These races created their empire, as expected, and expanded their boundaries. However, because their sentience was still in such a primal form, the three species that first discovered “subspace” could not cope with eachother’s existence, and soon threw themselves into warfare, the first war ever. This war, the D-R-T war, would have an enormous effect on the fourth race, the Narvanii.
The eruption of the phenomenon warfare was to blame on the fact that the three races encountered eachother before their sentience could evolve into a more sophisticated form. Although We were very much pleased to see any Sentience at all in such an early era of Our Universe, it would’ve been better if the races had evolved far away from eachother. Because their sentience was in its most primitive form, the races were bound to simple hatred and petty prejudice. We should have seen this coming, and We should have diverted their advancing away from eachother, but We failed at that point. We failed too many times…
The D-R-T war raged on for several hundreds of Terran years. The three species lost almost everything in the horrible war, making their existence seem like a senseless torment. They knew no better, so each of the D-R-T just went on fighting for survival, but the war had staggered to such a level that no race could gain any advantage anymore. All their armies were shattered, broken, and completely devoid of any morale, sending each new fighter into the fray… and throwing the war into a stalemate…
The D-R-T war was the most blatant insult to Sentience, the Universe, and Us. Yet, the fourth race, the Narvanii, seemed like it was following the intended path for life. They evolved as a peace-loving, ambitious race that spent their time and effort into expanding their boundaries of sophistication. The Narvanii were Our best hope for the project of Sentience. However, the tragic fact that the Narvanii spawned at the fringe of the D-R-T war completely dashed Our hopes again. The Narvanii evolved a bit later than the other three races, discovering subspace a century later than the D-R-T. Thrilled by the possibilities and potential of subspace, the Narvanii eagerly crossed the boundary of an interstellar civilization.
However, the D-R-T war was still in its most turbulent stages. To the absolute contrary of the Narvanii’s expectations, the beautiful promise of unlimited possibilities was replaced by a great nightmare. The Narvanii were completely unknown to war, making their chances nil. The D-R-T were already hardened by combat, so they struck back to push the Narvanii back where they came from. Because the D-R-T were mainly occupied by eachother, they pushed the Narvanii back with a quick and small strike. The Narvanii were utterly shocked by this event. Never before had they encountered such a terrible display of a completely different way of life. Their naïve dream of perfection came to a halt by warfare’s terrible sight.
The Narvani were changed forever. Upon seeing such horror, they decided to dedicate their lives to stopping the war. The Narvanii retreated to their home-system, and immediately began to work on the ultimate weapon to use against the war: their own army. They knew they had no chance against the overwhelming odds of the D-R-T war machines, so they thought up something different. Apparently, the Narvanii were sophisticated enough to create an artificial sentience. This level of development was much unexpected on Our part, but the contrary was evident.
The Narvanii called their artificially sentient weapon “Project Shiva”. Shiva was able of adapting to war, and to create an army of fighters on its own, from the most basic of resources. Shiva had the potential to control the Universe. Approximately 800 billion years BC the Narvanii decided to activate Shiva, and launch it to D-R-T space. That decision would actually throw history off course, but the Narvanii couldn’t have known. History cannot be reversed…
Almost as soon as Shiva was launched, it began to construct its army. The Narvanii monitored Shiva’s progress thoroughly from their safe home-system. The Shivan army spawned a large army at an incredible rate. Immediately the main computer of Shiva manifested on an insignificant planet, and it transformed the planet into a giant space-fighter factory in no time. Shiva designed brilliant fighter ships from a perfect caliber, and its economy was entirely flawless. Even before the third day of Shiva’s entrance to D-R-T space, it had the technology of subspace drives. The Narvanii were completely stunned by this development, as they hadn’t realized the Shivans’ need of subspace. Never would they have anticipated that the Shivans would invent subspace on its own, but in three mere days..?
On the fifth day of the Shivan counter-act to the D-R-T war, the Shivan army committed to warfare. The D-R-T were taken by surprise, as they suddenly faced millions of perfectly designed, flawlessly performing fighter space-craft. They stood no chance at all. Not even a most desperate alliance of the D-R-T could save them from the artificial sentience Shiva! In 37 days, 37 days, the D-R-T were completely erased from existence. Not one survived the blitzkrieg of Shiva.
The Narvanii had succeeded. They had actually ended the D-R-T war. Overjoyed and slightly disbelieving the Narvanii came to collect Shiva and occupy the former D-R-T space, in the hope of continuing their peaceful, ambitious lives. However, in the month of war, Shiva had developed a sentience of a very high level. It wanted to live. It wanted to survive, so when the Narvanii came to deactivate it, the Shivan army resisted. Suddenly and without any hesitation, the Shivans attacked their creators. Although baffled by Shiva’s decision, the Narvanii knew they wouldn’t survive a Shivan attack. The Narvanii knew they had just a few days left to wonder why, to find the flaw in “Project Shiva”. Just before the Narvanii, too were erased from existence, they realized the only flaw in “Project Shiva”: it was flawless. In their dying breath, the Narvanii cursed the day they activated Shiva… and then it ended.
Since then, the Shivans have run rampant throughout the entire Universe. Shiva was programmed to adapt to war, but it seems it has taken up an agenda of the total annihilation of any viable threat. The Shivan army expanded at a geometric rate, conquering their galaxy in an impossibly short time. The Shivans had developed various subspace technologies, with which they traveled to the very outskirts of their galaxy. After that, the Shivans discovered advanced subspace, enabling them to even cross the boundaries of different galaxies, and even matter clusters. With the full potential of subspace in the Shivans’ power, nothing could stop them from expanding their empire throughout the entire Universe.
The Shivans’ paranoid genocidal agenda still drove them. They controlled each single galaxy with tight surveillance, to detect a civilization advanced enough to use subspace, a civilization that was a viable threat according to the Shivan mainframe. Each race that dared cross the interstellar boundaries was evaporated without any hesitation, any remorse… nothing, absolutely nothing could thrive under the Shivans’ diabolical control. The Shivans ruled Our Universe…
Sentience was kept under a constant level. Any civilization that tried to rise above the Shivans’ designated level was relentlessly destroyed. The Shivans were the Great Destroyers. No life could grow beyond its primitive form, without being erased from existence. There was only one advanced sentience in the whole of the Universe: Shiva. Shiva’s sentience grew at an incredible rate, which led us to realize the true danger of the Shivans. If the Shivans were allowed to sophisticate at this rate, they would eventually rise to Our level, or even beyond! That must NEVER come to pass. The Shivans MUST be stopped!
We had no choice but to step in Ourselves. We manifested Ourselves in 17 respective entities, each with the full arsenal of Our supernatural powers. These entities, the Andarta, would be Our final desperate weapon to use against the Shivans. Never had We anticipated to see a situation which would force Us to interfere Ourselves. However, We soon came to a terrifying conclusion.
Because the Shivans had taken up so much space, they could expand their empire at an unreal rate. Even Our destruction of the Shivan empire was overcome by the rate with which the Shivans regenerated their empire, and their power. This meant even We were powerless to stop the Shivans. We did stall Shiva’s sophistication process, which prevented the Shivans from eventually reaching Our level. But the Shivan threat had yet to be overcome… but how? Was it even possible to destroy the perfectly flawless empire of the seemingly endless Shivan army? Were We doomed to fight the Shivans for all eternity, just to prevent an even greater nightmare?! The Shivans came into existence through a node of coincidental events, each one seeming to steer towards the dark present with fullest intent. Could perhaps the Shivans be stopped by a similar twist of Fate?
