Proposed STGOD Setting.
Posted: 2005-12-09 06:54pm
Since the ASVS-STGOD 'verse is crowded, overflowing, and overdone for now, I came up with this. It's an oral history told by my probable nation; don't mind the primitive nature and mysticism. As an oral tradition, it's of sketchy veracity.
Heed me, young explorers, for I am the once great explorer Iron Phoenix, who opened the Northeast Passage and found the great cache at Drasib. I will tell you how the universe came to be the way it is.
In the beginning was the Age Of Stone. All beings lived on their worlds of stone, the Cradles, where they came to be. The worlds nutured them, let them grow fat and happy like a prosperous village's children. They fought, yes, but beings always fight. It is our way. The Cradles let them grow stronger, climbing their own paths to the stars.
Next, came the Age of Iron, for the beings of the stars had found the ways of metal and science, and strode out into the stars on vast, cold ships. So brave were they! Enduring generations asleep for a chance at a new Cradle. Into the night billions journeyed, and new worlds were settled, new species found as Cradles sent their journeyers to the same stars. It was a cold, dark time, like the void itself. No faster-than-light technology meant no words home or to other colonies. Each world was it's own, and they ecked out lives as best they could.
When the barrier of Light was finally breached, it ushered in a new Age as each star was interconnected. Trade of goods, money, and knowledge went from a few droplets to a roaring ocean. Prosperity again dominated, and new worlds were founded, new species found. Some new species were even made, such were the wonders of the Age of Silver, the magics the old ones had.
Yet, did I not say it is the nature of all beings to war? I did. Remember that, explorers, for you will find battles out there. Silver could not last forever. We do not know who began the great war, but does it matter? The nations then are gone, destroyed in their own fires. The only links one could make now are those of species, and who is so arrogant as to do that? The Age of Steel was one which destroyed, not created. The universe became cold and dark for a long time.
Now? We do not know this Age's name yet. The wise men after us will decide such. But we see the signs. Other nations crawl from the rubble to set forth again. There are no empires as there once were, but in a year, ten years, a hundred years? No sage is that wise.
Now, observe, while I show you how to speak to your craft, so they will carry you across the void..
Heed me, young explorers, for I am the once great explorer Iron Phoenix, who opened the Northeast Passage and found the great cache at Drasib. I will tell you how the universe came to be the way it is.
In the beginning was the Age Of Stone. All beings lived on their worlds of stone, the Cradles, where they came to be. The worlds nutured them, let them grow fat and happy like a prosperous village's children. They fought, yes, but beings always fight. It is our way. The Cradles let them grow stronger, climbing their own paths to the stars.
Next, came the Age of Iron, for the beings of the stars had found the ways of metal and science, and strode out into the stars on vast, cold ships. So brave were they! Enduring generations asleep for a chance at a new Cradle. Into the night billions journeyed, and new worlds were settled, new species found as Cradles sent their journeyers to the same stars. It was a cold, dark time, like the void itself. No faster-than-light technology meant no words home or to other colonies. Each world was it's own, and they ecked out lives as best they could.
When the barrier of Light was finally breached, it ushered in a new Age as each star was interconnected. Trade of goods, money, and knowledge went from a few droplets to a roaring ocean. Prosperity again dominated, and new worlds were founded, new species found. Some new species were even made, such were the wonders of the Age of Silver, the magics the old ones had.
Yet, did I not say it is the nature of all beings to war? I did. Remember that, explorers, for you will find battles out there. Silver could not last forever. We do not know who began the great war, but does it matter? The nations then are gone, destroyed in their own fires. The only links one could make now are those of species, and who is so arrogant as to do that? The Age of Steel was one which destroyed, not created. The universe became cold and dark for a long time.
Now? We do not know this Age's name yet. The wise men after us will decide such. But we see the signs. Other nations crawl from the rubble to set forth again. There are no empires as there once were, but in a year, ten years, a hundred years? No sage is that wise.
Now, observe, while I show you how to speak to your craft, so they will carry you across the void..
*g*)