Eternal Galaxy Project

[Cucoo5]

ok Materia, Avonna's Advisor, just got bumped up in importance to overall plot.

So we have the three instances of Aion:
the original Aion during Prism,
First Revival known as Revere,
and Second Revival known as Astraeus.

Revere has most of the memories of the original and is closer in behavior. He was found by Materia who advises him to help her help the Commonwealth overthrow the Republic because she wants Avonna to take power. Meanwhile Astraeus is an alteration to the original Aion due to Tina's view of him. He does not have memories of his former self and is caught up in the events after a "trial by fire" on survival in Chronorift. He gets dragged into the war and finds himself fighting for Avonna to stop the Nihiliod threat. The irony of the situation is both Aion's are fighting two aspects of the same cause yet they don't see eye to eye.

Revere takes on a more "brutal" approach to things in order to make the most of the Commonwealth forces which are more general thugs than an efficient military.

Astraeus takes on a more "rogue" approach due to the fact he's on the inside trying to bring out the truth.

So Revere is closer to being a Noble that turned into a ruthless military leader while Astraeus went from surviving the wild to a renegade pilot that's digging deeper into the Venturian Republic.

And Materia is working with both very carefully not to raise suspicions.

So with that in mind I now have a new pairing that could point towards a possible Ignis: Revere x Materia.
problem with that is if Ignis inherits her mother's figure she ain't fooling anybody that she's a guy.

Thus I'm left with these options:

Revere x Materia
Pros: They have a lot in common and stick around each other long enough.
Cons: Ignis can't have big boobs inherit the dominant traits of Vatian women.

Revere x Achlys
Pros: Revere could be around when Achlys is still alive.
Cons: Achlys might not be alive long enough to have a child.

Astraeus x Achlys
Pros: This would make sense on alot of levels, especially Ignis's mastery of Gaia and Aura Energy.
Cons: Achlys would kinda be a...uh... Demonarc Arachnae. It just wouldn't work unless she gets turned back.

Astraeus x Selene
Pros: Would explain Ignis's ability to be a better "Master of Time" since she would inherit Selene's Chronal Perception.
Cons: There is absolutely no reason why these two would hook up.

Astraeus x Kiara
Pros: They are practically fighting alongside each other for most of the time they know each other. These two have more time to get to know each other than any other.
Cons: Ignis as a Nymph. Plus I really don't see Astraeus being able to survive Kiara's attempts to conceive 4 "Seasonal Nymphs" in addition to Ignis. Yeah don't let the cute innocent nymph look fool ya.

Astraeus x Starla
Pros: Similar to Kiara
Cons: Same as Revere x Materia. Plus saving Starla for Joe anyway.


...so uh... yeah I need help explaining one of these so it works.
The most flexible is Astraeus x Selene... but it's also the hardest to explain unless I have Selene be a really good thief-type character.

[Cucoo5]

updated link and doc. Revised a few things and made it through the beginning portion of Shards of Starlight. Book sections are titled in blue as I reach them.

[Cucoo5]

Ok so because of what I had to do, I dumped everything onto Google drive, therefore my primary doc that is the timeline is there and so here's the link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

It's set so that anyone that visits via this link can add suggestions which I get to approve/reject.
I expect to see things happen now.

[Cucoo5]

Random Passage:

Starla's Home

"C'mon! The colony is just up ahead!" Starla called back to the rest of the group. "Just through this gate is my-" Her cheery smile slowly faded as she ran into the first street of the colony. Gradually she slowed to a stop in the middle of the settlement's central square. A broken fountain, ruined buildings, and the stench of death greeted her senses. Where there should be people, there was bloodstains. Where there would have been crowded markets, there was rubble. Starla's eyes were wide with terror as she realized what had happened. "My... Home..." A feeling of weakness overcame her, causing her to collapse to her knees as she stared off into some undefined portion of space, not really focusing on the state of the colony anymore. Breathes came in stuttered and sporadic as a plethora of feelings started to well up in her. "W-what...what happened to my home?!" In the midst of her racing thoughts, one question came to the forefront: "What of my family?"

A sudden burst of desperate energy drove Starla up from her spot on the ground and towards where her house once was. "MAAAAAAMA?!" Starla shouted in desperation. She no longer seemed to be the woman she was, rather she seemed more like a scared little girl from her past. "PAAAAPA?! WHERE ARE YOU??" She rounded a corner and the sight she was greeted with caused her to stumble and fall amidst sobs and tears of complete sorrow. The majority of her home was gone, lost to whatever caused a massive crater nearby. It was so unreal she was unable to stop the waves of tears.

[Cucoo5]

Literally, Point A is what's immediately above that part and Point B is throughout everything past it.

Bridging the gap and making sense of the original story is what's stopping me right now.

[S121]

@Cucoo

Ok, so where should we start first? What is our point A and B?

[Cucoo5]

Spoiler: Era of the Void

RY 0
- Caeles create technology capable of manipulating 5 dimensional space
- The Eternal Galaxy Project was started
o The Eternal Galaxy Project was started so that the Caeles would not have to fear running out of resource or having to watch their home be destroyed as it was before.
o Two experiments that were started to achieve this: The GAIA Project and the VOID Project.
§ The GAIA Project delved into generating a machine that could manipulate time and space that would allow the Caeles to reset the galaxy. Two machines were created. The initial device was called the Chronorift Drone, which would access alternate timelines and alter the galaxy through fissures. It would be known to future generations as the Beast of Time. The second device was simply called the GAIA Computer, which utilized a similar program to the Chronorift Drone which was titled the Phoenix Code.
· The Phoenix Code was created by a Caeles woman named Venturia.
§ The VOID Project delved into generating a galaxy from scratch by manipulating the void. The result of the project was a machine that fused one of the Caeles scientists working on it to the void and thus granted them control over it. The Caeles that was fused to it lost its identity, yet knowledge of its existence remains. It is referred to as the Unknown or the Void. In an attempt to reassert its individual consciousness, the Unknown created beings called the Nihiliods, which serve as appendages for the Unknown to analyze the physical and psychological makeup of the galaxy’s individual inhabitants. They typically take on the form of insectoid parasites, though the Unknown may experiment with different forms in order to try and gather new types of data, or based on the experiences of past iterations. What the Nihiliods experience, the Unknown will know. However, it does not alter the Nihiliods’ nature too much each in each new iteration , as it intends to dissect the very concept of the ego, with the ultimate goal of reconstructing its own.

RY 19945
- The First Phoenix Incident occurs to combat the Nihiliods Infection of the galaxy.
o The Phoenix code of the GAIA Computer is activated which restores everything in the galaxy, ultimately resetting it. An unexpected consequence of using it was the creation of new beings that began to inhabit the galaxy.

Spoiler: Era of the Dawn

RY 20,000
- Prometheos and Arcains are the primary inhabitants of the reborn galaxy.
o Rather than interact with the new inhabitants of the galaxy, due to fear of being called gods, the Caeles flee to an alternate dimension using the Chronorift Drone. They use adapted technology from the GAIA and VOID Project to remove the universe in the dimension they traveled to, which generated a substance known as Black Matter.
§ This new dimension is referred to as Heaven’s Forge.
§ Because the Caeles left behind the original GAIA Computer in order to help the new inhabitants to combat the Void, Black Matter was transported to the Eternal Galaxy and was “spawned” as a form of resource.
§ Venturia, because she was against removal of the universe so that Heaven’s Forge could be created, in addition to being blamed for what the Phoenix Code had done to the Eternal Galaxy in terms of generating new beings, was banished back to the Eternal Galaxy. Fearing being worshiped as a goddess, Venturia takes on a new Identity. She would call herself Nyx Leonares.
§ Venturia continued experiments while living among the new inhabitants. She would tamper with the GAIA Computer and generate what she considered her son: Aion Leonares, who would be a Prometheos infused with Caeles traits that would allow him to control the Chronorift Drone, although at this point, the Chronorift Drone started to develop a wild AI, emulating a beast. Aion had to master what abilities he had, such as being able to see Fissures of Time and the various timelines simultaneously. This ability allows Aion to keep track of when and where the Beast of Time would attack, thus allowing him to tame it.
o The Prometheos and Arcains discover the GAIA Computer and find records of Venturia’s existence as well as her work on a planet that what would be later named Nox. Learning what the GAIA Computer could do and that they came to be thanks to Venturia’s efforts, they renamed the galaxy after her.
- Corlaviri Crystal is discovered in the Venturian Galaxy and is soon utilized for various purposes due to the large quantities it was found.
o Corlaviri is generated by the GAIA Computer as a means to store Gaia and Aura energy.
- An Arcain girl, Tina, was found by Nyx in Dual City who had been targeted by Harvesters, a group of people that discovered that Arcains have naturally occurring Corlaviri Crystals growing in them and will “harvest” them due to their value as a resource since the Mines were typically reserved for Prometheos who controlled the Corlaviri market.
o Since Arcains will typically fall terminally ill without their crystal, Nyx provided Tina a crystal so that she would still remain alive. Out of pity, Nyx took in Tina and appointed her to Aion as a maid in order to fit in to the current norms of society.

RY 22120
- Prometheos soon segregate themselves from Arcains as they quickly discover they are physically superior to them. They subjugate Arcains into servitude.
- A small group of human explorers arrive at the Venturian Galaxy via a wormhole. Among them were Mike Warr (Cicero), Ryan Cyke (Nero), and Sarah Trinity.

RY 22123
- After living among the Prometheos and Arcains, Venturia began to see the same selfish traits in the Prometheos that she relates to her own race. She then begins to try and break the Prometheos of their ways by subtle means, with utilizing the Phoenix Code as a last resort.
o After observing the humans that arrived, she realized that she could possibly manipulate them into activating the GAIA Computer by starting an Arcain Revolt against the Prometheos. Her hope, however, was that the revolt would end before the GAIA Computer would need to be activated.
- The Arcain Revolt begins with Cicero and Nero as tacticians for an underground resistance of Arcains in the Outer Ring of Dual City. They would pioneer the technology that would be used to turn Arcains into Noxarcs, which would be later abused to turn them into Demonarcs.
- Aion and Tina, who by this point are very close having grown up together, begin to question what is actually happening with the Arcain Revolt.
- Cicero, Nero, and Sarah prepare to access the GAIA Computer using an AI that Cicero developed, named Aurora. This would initialize the phase of the Arcain Revolt named the Phoenix Incident.
- Aion begins to defy the Prometheos nobility; however his actions are not profound enough and are too late in order to stop the activation of the GAIA Computer.
o Tina is slain during the Phoenix Incident. Her spirit is processed by the GAIA Computer as Aura energy and is then converted into code, which is then merged with Aurora’s AI later.
- Noticing that it’s too late to stop the Phoenix Code from being activated, Nyx kills Aion in the hopes that his spirit would be processed by the GAIA Computer as well before it activates. She then escapes the Galaxy to Heaven’s Forge using another part of the GAIA Computer that opens a rift to that dimension.
- Without Aion, the Chronorift Drone begins to rampage, causing instabilities in space time which would become Fissures of Time.
- Unbeknownst to Nyx, the chamber in which the GAIA Computer was stored also served as a safe chamber by modifications caused by Aurora who had been fused with Tina. Cicero, Nero, and two Prometheos nobles who had allied themselves with Aion, were spared as they were in what would be called the Vault. In addition, by Tina’s modifications, all Arcains were also spared.
- Cicero and Nero would be affected by the GAIA Computer by Aurora’s modifications, granting them the ability to utilize the computer’s reality altering abilities; however Tina made it so there would be conditions in which they could lose access to their abilities.

Spoiler: Era of the Rift

RY 22125
- The recreated galaxy spawned a new set of beings alongside the Arcains: Vatians, Irians, and Papillians.
o Vatians were altered Arcains that were embedded with a form of the ability to see possible future timelines due to the GAIA Computer. The Corlaviri crystal was removed and they appear with slightly different traits than Arcains.
o Papillians were imbued with the ability to passively affect the mental state of those near them. Aura energy tends to resonate with them and forms ornate wings that typically are butterfly like in shape.
o Irians had their senses heightened and adapted to survive harsh conditions; hence they took on a more beast-like appearance accordingly to where they live.
- The GAIA Computer was sealed away in the Manor of Eternity in the Vault. To hide it away so that it would be difficult to even locate the Manor, the only gateway to it was sealed away on the Isle of Spirits on the planet Dua. The Mirror Sea, due to the location’s high concentration of Gaia energy, interferes with most means of transport, making it difficult to traverse and therefore challenging to reach the Isle of Spirits.
- The Dual City remains on Nox with the Manor of Eternity removed, which is now in a world between timelines known as Chronorift, a place where time is not stable.
- Instabilities in time-space alter the Venturian Galaxy, pulling in structures of other timelines, such as the Tower of Lucida and Tower of Ater on Alcyon, the Temple of the Lost on Inopia, and the Castle of Vitrea on Senarius.
o Some structures are caught between two or more timelines depending on where instabilities occur.
o There are two Aura charged corlaviri crystals in the Towers of Alcyon, which were named the Eternal Light and Ethereal Darkness, respectively, and were imbued with conscious minds of both order and chaos.
§ The Eternal Light’s consciousness took the form of two succubi twins, Hedone and Peitho.
§ The Ethereal Darkness was represented by a doppelganger, Morpheus, while the other half remains trapped in the crystal due to its power.
- Venturia was now prohibited from returning to the galaxy due to her meddling and was imprisoned in Heaven’s Forge. However she was allowed to continue researching means to counteract the Void. Due to the success in creating Aion using the GAIA Computer, she attempted to replicate the process using a Caeles base. Her genetic engineering resulted in developing a Caeles girl with the ability to naturally manipulate 5-dimensional space. This “Starchild,” as she referred to it, had its growth accelerated to three times the natural rate so that it would be at least old enough to be aware of her abilities. Before the fifth year was past, the Caeles were weary of Venturia’s project and told her to cease any further developments. Venturia halted the girl’s growth acceleration; however she made a mistake which slowed the girl’s growth tremendously. The girl was named Anankerisa.
o Anankerisa suffered from the rapid manipulation of her growth, which caused mental instabilities.

RY 22130
- Venturia sent, via Anankerisa, a book that documented what would happen if the Void attacked the galaxy once again as well as encrypted instructions to creating additions to the GAIA Computer in order to counteract the Nihiliods. However, the book that would later be called the Blood Tome, wound up in the hands of Hedone and Peitho. Considering it as a book of prophecy, they intended on using it to their own ends to gain dominion over the galaxy.
o The Twin Sisters waited for the opportune moment to use the book against the newly forming Venturian Empire.
RY 22666
- Earth is Destroyed
- Venturian Technology begins reverse engineering devices left behind by the Caeles that had survived the Phoenix Incidents.
o Corlaviri is used in all aspects of society
§ Corlaviri Sickness, also known as Gaia Fusion, becomes prominent when organics come into contact with Gaia charged Corlaviri. The symptoms include crystallization of organic tissue.
o Forterium is invented, a material created from a process that rearranges Corlaviri crystal molecules into a metal and then fusing it with any metal, ranging from iron to titanium. The alloy increases the base material’s physical toughness to that of diamonds while retaining the structural strength of the metal used. The only downside to Forterium is that it is extremely susceptible to Gaia Energy, which can easily break it down.
o Inerium is created by a chemical reaction with molten Corlaviri and water. The substance created is a liquid that insulates from Gaia and Aura energy.

RY 22740
- Human Survivors reach Venturia

RY 22780
- Instabilities in space-time begin to cause severe disruptions in the Venturian Galaxy. Humans and Venturians cooperate to try and solve the crisis. Humans take advantage of the situation by comparing their technology to that of the Venturians. The result of their collaboration is the first Rift Gate, which illustrates their view of the issue: “Harness the fissures rather than shun them.”
- One of the timelines accessed during experimentation unleashes Nihiliods into the Venturian Galaxy.
o Anankerisa joins with the Venturains in order to help contain and then eliminate the outbreak of Nihiliods.
o The technology so far developed is weaponized in order to effectively fight back the Nihiliods.
o Aurora severs off the Galaxy from the rest of the universe by generating a boundary around the Outer Rim of the Galaxy.
§ The Outer Rim is the solar systems outside of the central six solar systems: Helios, Celestora, Egale, Venion, Sol Incineron, Nexion.
o Special tools made by the Caeles from Heaven’s Forge are introduced to the Galaxy. They are meant to help aid the Venturians in fighting the Nihiliods by utilizing the GAIA Computer’s ability to manipulate 5-dimensional space.
§ Mercurius, Arke, and Iris are three of the Artifacts of Heaven’s Forge. Each one grants access to one of the GAIA Computer’s space-time manipulation aspects.
§ The Shards of Starlight are also mentioned as powerful crystals. The mention of them however is misleading, for there is no singular set of crystals capable of performing what they are said to do. Six of the planets of the inner solar systems serve as the Shards of Starlight. There is however a crystal that serves as a key to the temples that serves as access points to the Shards of Starlight.
· The Shards of Starlight is the Caeles’s attempt to generate something powerful enough to possibly destroy the Void.

RY 108826
- Nihiliods are isolated on a planet in the Egale System.
- The Venturian Empire, which had been converted to a republic after the fall of the Emperor Xystus who was a black winged Papillian, had lured those infected by the parasitic Nihiliods to the planet with the promise of a cure only to betray them and leave them to die.
o This act would cause a split in the Galaxy, generating two other factions: The Senari Federation and the Commonwealth of Venturia. These two factions were created in preparation for the anticipated fall of the Venturian Republic, which did not come.
o Negotiations were held on dividing up the solar systems among the factions. The solar systems were divided on how to proceed with the problem of the Nihiliods. They were divided as so: Helios and Nexion sided with the Republic, Celestora and Egale sided with the Federation, and Sol Incineron and Venion sided with the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth and the Federation opposed the Republic’s idea of eradicating the Nihiliods.
o Negotiations bog down and a faction within the Republic unveils a weapon known as the Daedalus Project, and uses it to strike the planet in the Egale System in which the Nihiliods are quarantined. This destroys the Nihiliods wholesale.
§ Following the usage of the Daedalus project to destroy the Nihiliods, the Commonwealth declares war upon the Republic under the cause of genocide.
- The War of Eternity begins
o The Federation at this time has to deal with a civil war involving a rebel force called the United Free Syndicate of Egale (USFE) which was formed due to the Federation’s actions towards breaking the Quarantine of the Nihiliods.
§ The Federation’s leaders are assassinated, however the rebels are suppressed. After the Senari Civil War, the Federation allied itself with the Republic in order to recover, due to fear of the Daedalus Project.
o The Commonwealth begins developing massive battle cruisers to fight the Daedalus Project. The line of capital ships would be classified under a tier system, starting with the largest being known as the Alpha Class.
§ Initially 10 Alpha Class ships were designed to match the Daedalus Project’s firepower.
§ The Republic was aware of the Commonwealth’s project and made 3 similar battle ships to counter them.
§ The first assault against the Daedalus Project saw two of the Alpha Class ships destroyed and another two critically damaged and then captured by the Republic. Thus the Republic had five Alpha Class ships and a damaged Daedalus Project while the Commonwealth had six Alpha Class ships.
§ The Federation pleaded the Republic to lend them one of the Alpha Cruisers so that they could both defend themselves as well as begin developing more of the capital ships. The Republic obliged, and the Federation made three additional cruisers.
§ In addition to the Alpha Class cruisers, seven other models were made to flesh out armadas.
· The tier list is as follows in order from largest to smallest:
o Alpha
Beta
Gamma
Delta
Omega
Kappa
Lambda
Zeta

RY 109115
- After the leaders of the three factions were killed, the War of Eternity came to a halt and almost ended if it weren’t for the succubi sisters, Hedone and Peitho. The twins took the lead of the Venturian Republic and turned it into an Empire once more.
o The Federation broke its alliance with the Empire and allied itself with the Commonwealth. Despite their combined efforts, the Empire quickly crushed both factions with the help of new technology derived from the Blood Tome.

RY 109136
- The Venturian Empire rules over all systems in the Inner rim of the Galaxy and prospers. However, the USFE, which had pledged allegiance to the Empire and replaced the Federation, grew concerned about the foretold return of the Nihiliods. The USFE grew restless during the peace and sought out the group that claimed to be attempting to reform the Commonwealth.
- A sudden outbreak of Nihiliods on the capital planet Senarius of Egale causes what would be called the Senari Crisis. Taking extreme measures, the USFE begins to kill the people of the planet in order to stop the infection. They implement a bio-computer overlord in order to oversee that all inhabitants are exterminated. However, a group of resistance fighters rise up and attempt to destroy the bio-computer as well as reestablish the Federation.

RY 109141
- End of the Senari Crisis
o The last sniper of a group of assassins that were loyal to the Federation known as Reapers, Eleos Mithras, aided the resistance of Senarius in what would be called Operation Reaper’s Call.
§ Operation Reaper’s Call ends with the reestablishment of the Federation and the overthrow of the USFE, although both factions are crippled and weak.
o On Alcyon, fear of the Nihiliods spreading causes panic and the Arcains take matters into their own hands and attempt to prevent any outbreak by utilizing the two towers of Lucida and Ater. One Arcain named Achlys unleashes the power of the Ethereal Darkness’s Consciousness of Chaos which takes the form of a demonic queen that possesses Achlys and begins brainwashing the inhabitants of the main continent of Alcyon known as Mana. Marc, another Arcain who was in league with Achlys yet did not agree with the plan of unleashing the Ethereal Darkness, sought out one of the Nymphs of Mana in order to try and stop the possessed Achlys and seal the Ethereal Darkness. The Nymph he finds was the Nymph of Winter known as Kiara.
§ After a brief campaign against Achlys, Marc guides Kiara to her and sacrifices himself in order to allow Kiara to seal the Ethereal Darkness.
- Fall of the Venturian Empire
o An underground group of rebels organize to take down Hedone and Peitho, led by a man named Orion. After successfully defeating the Twin Sisters, he attempts to reinstate the Venturian Empire with Lady Avonna, daughter of Xystus, as the Empress. However, the people do not trust having one person having all power and therefore return things back to the Republic.
o The Commonwealth, tired of the existence of the Venturian Republic, seeks to remove it and replace it.

Above is the nearly completed timeline thus far, with the last parts being extrememly rough and in need of serious ideas on how to get from point A to point B that makes sense.

Below is a rough placeholder system to try and organize what goes where.
Everything needs reasons. And I don't really have solid ones.

Spoiler: Era of Echoes

RY 109150
- The Mirror Sea
o Trapped in Chronorift
- Hunters’ Guild
- Sacred Shadow
o Shrine of Seasons
o Tower of Lucida and Ater
- Goddess of Vengeance
o Moirai and Philotes Projects
- Operation Longbow
o Black Lotus
- The Lost Princess
- Across the Rift
o Temple of the Lost
- Ancient Guardians
o Erebos and Aetheron
o Dual City
- Artifacts of the Creators
o Mercurius, Arke, Iris.
o Shards of Starlight
- Daedalus’ Labyrinth
o Daedalus Project
o Corruption of the Nihiliods
o The second GAIA Computer
o Chronorift
- Echoes
o Anankerisa’s Solution
o Aurora
o Selene Aetas
o Aion and Astraeus
o Phoenix Code
§ Interrupting the sequence

RY 109300
- The Inevitable Conclusion
o Ignis Leonares’ escape
o Fall of the boundary
o Grey Phoenix

Spoiler: Era of Rebirth

RY 110240
- Colonization begins when the Galaxy returns to its place in the natural timeline
- Reformation of the Hunters’ Guild
- Keystones
- Shrine of Seasons: Zoe, Khloe, and Sofia
- Reawakened Nihiliods
- Nemesis and MIMI on Duon
- Sedes Imperii
o Reconstruction of Nemesis and MIMI
- Restoration of the Daedalus Project
- Zephira, the Nymph of Spring
- Nihiliod Queen of Senarius
- Temple of the Lost
- Mines of Conlustrare
o Mechanical Nihiliods
- Extraction of Aurora
o Encounter with Nihiliod possessed Omega Class Cruiser
- Manor of Eternity
o Separating Aurora from the GAIA Computer
o Activating the GAIA Computer
o Nihiliod raid
- Firing the Daedalus Project
o The Unknown

Here's the timeline in a doc that can have suggestions written in
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

[Cucoo5]

Ok so I'm revisiting this scene and expanding upon it some more. Will add more to this later when I get a proper drive to transition forward with the next part.

The Lost Princess

The great doors of the central hall of the ruins groaned as they were forced open. The pungent smell of rotten flesh greeted the group as they entered. Eleos pulled up the neck of his shirt over his nose. "This place is ripe..." he said to Aion.

The ground was littered with various treasures. Goblets, platters, jewelry; all covered in blood. A long stone table was brimming with musty food and chalices filled with the crimson liquid. As Aion looked along the table, a gentle clink of a glass being picked up alerted him of the presence of a girl at the far end. From the distance across the room, Aion could clearly make out who it was.

“There’s the princess!” Joe said in a loud whisper as he started to dash forward. He was stopped by Eleos.

“Something’s wrong here.” Eleos murmured. “Something’s very wrong.”

As the group approached the far end of the table, it became clear that the princess seemed very shaky where she sat. When she picked up a chalice, her arm seemed to be broken, yet still functioning. Her mouth was dripping blood. Her eyes were looking at the group, terrified, red with crying, as she seemed to unwilling bring the drink to her lips. The group stopped, a few feet away, slightly dumbstruck and very uncertain of themselves. Her head turned to look at them, but when it did, it moved as though it wasn’t attached to her body. After a long pause, the princess managed to let out a guttural moan. “Kill…me…” At that moment she began to choke and her throat distended as an insect-like head emerged from her mouth, screeching.

“Nihiliod...!" Nemesis said with a look of artificial shock.

“A Nihiliod?! I thought they were quarantined!” Aion yelped as he drew Mercurius. At the same time, the legs of the parasite within the princess jabbed through the sides of her torso, lifting her limp body into the air. The head remained in her mouth, screeching like a banshee. Suddenly, scurrying could be heard along the walls. It was as though the room came alive.

“Shit.” Eleos bluntly said.

“Run!”

Aion's command seemed redundant at that time as the group had the same thought at the same time. The smaller insectoid swarm was rapidly converging on them. There was only one path for escape, and they all clambered for it. When Nemesis reached the door, she spun around with her gatling gun which she opened up upon the moving mass of parasites in a desperate attempt to buy the others time to get out. Small spurts could be seen where Nihiliod larvae were slain by the onslaught of bullets. The swarm continued advancing regardless. Aion, the last to reach the door, grabbed Nemesis by the arm, signaling her to cease fire and help him close the door. The combined strength of android and man slammed the door shut. Aion took a step back while he caught his breath, examining the seal of the door.

Upon closer inspection he noticed that one of the larvae was trapped between the stone of both door and frame. Just like any captured insect, it moved its legs around as it agitatedly tried to free itself. Nemesis noticed its struggle and helped end the parasite’s suffering with a swift kick that crushed it.

“The door is holding…” Aion commented, surprised that such a feat was possible. However, the sound of stone crumbling made him realize that the Nihiliod larvae were eating through the solid stone slab that was the door and walls. “...Or not. Let’s catch up with the others, now!”

Nemesis nodded in agreement as she pursued behind him as they raced down the stairs that led to the entrance hall.

[Cucoo5]

And now for a big update. Not a full blown revision, but I'll call it one since it does revise a few aspects.

GAIA Revision:

Caeles "made" the beast of time. It is an artificial construct made to manipulate time and space. Caeles have tech as well as gained abilities that allow them to manipulate five dimensional space, however they were still in the experimental phase. The Gaia Computer, Beast of Time, and Void Projects are all examples of such experiments.

In addition...
Anankerisa is a Caeles experiment to produce a being imbued with the ability to manipulate 5 dimensional space "naturally". Hence the alternative race name for her: Starchild.

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Heaven's Forge could act as a tesseract. The "Passages of Fate" is actually the three dimensional representation of Heaven's Forge.

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Fissures of Time act as rifts between timelines, therefore jumping only time. The Rift Gates are adaptations of this that act as wormholes.

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Gaia and Aura energy cannot exist without the GAIA Computer. Gaia energy is converted by the computer from the physical realm (A sort of representation of Kinetic/potential/heat/etc energy put into one form) while Aura energy is derived from the non-physical (Theoretically: Spirit/life force/etc turned into a physical energy that can interact with Gaia energy). Corlaviri Crystals serve as storage for the energy after conversion.

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The power of the Shards of Starlight do not "technically" exist in the small crystals. The referenced planets ARE the source for the Shards of Starlight. The Small crystals themselves merely serve as a sort of receiver for the energy.
- For the final preparations to destroy the Unknown, The Shards will be gathered at the GAIA Computer, which will draw the power from the planets (possibly destroying them) and then transmit that power in a condensed form to the Daedalus Project which will fire the energy into the Void. It will do this by concentrating beams of the energy into the Rift Gate that leads to the Void, creating instability in the void which would cause expansion to occur again, as well as destroying the point where the Unknown was.

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The Artifacts of Heaven's Forge: Mercurius, Arke, and Iris, are technically tools that allow one to manipulate 5 dimensional space. The premise as to why they are weapons is that it was an attempt by the Caeles to weaponize their control of 5D space with the hope that it would be able to destroy the Nihiliods. Controlling the artifacts however proved difficult and therefore ineffective against fully eliminating the threat of the Void.
- Three artifacts were created as a sort of safeguard. Mercurius controls Gravity, Arke controls Energy/ 3D space, and Iris controls Time.

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The Temple of the Lost contains a gate to a part of the GAIA Computer that serves as the Generator of Gaia and Aura Energy. While the GAIA Computer itself can perform this task, this Generator naturally is far more efficient. In essence, the planet Inopia serves as a sort of furnace for it.
- The GAIA Generator is in Heaven's Forge itself. The Temple of the Lost contains the Rift Gate that leads to it. Thus the Temple of the Lost itself serves as a transport of Gaia and Aura energy.
- Note for Era of Rebirth: Currently the Rift Gate to the generator had been closed, hence why charged Corlaviri Crystals do not have as much energy.

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Each Planet referenced for the Shards of Starlight has a temple that acts as a sort of antenna for the energy. These temples have one predominantly large lens of Corlaviri.
- Each one will have to be manually activated and configured in order to direct the energy to the Gaia Computer.
- Note for Phoenix: To keep things short, the Keystones will be at these temples. Therefore the Shrine of Seasons is actually one of these temples.

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Cicero and Nero die after the second Phoenix Incident. However, they are reanimated via the GAIA Computer. They are essentially linked to it and hence why they have the ability to manipulate things at will. Hence why they are called "Life Hackers." There were others reanimated by the GAIA Computer to function similarly. This was done by Aurora after fusing with Tina. Aion was one of those that were reanimated. However because Nyx had sent his soul to Heaven's Forge, Tina ultimately created another instance of Aion that didn't have the original's memories.
- This is made possible by the fact that the GAIA Computer can manipulate Gaia and Aura Energy and therefore process it as code.

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The War of Eternity was caused by hysteria over the threat of the return of the Nihiliods as well as the fear of each faction's means to deal with the threat. The Galaxy was divided into three sectors each controlled by a different governing body. Nexion and Helios are governed by the Venturian Empire. Egale and Celestora were held by the Senari Federation which, after the Senari Crisis, went under the jurisdiction of the UFSE (United Free Syndicate of Egale), a rebel group that was against the Senari Federation. Venion and Nox are protected by the Commonwealth of Venturia.

- Venturian Empire/ Republic: Helios and Nexion
- Senari Federation/ USFE: Celestora and Egale
- Commonwealth of Venturia: Sol Incineron and Venion

There is what is called the "Outer Rim" which is everything outside of the Central 6 solar systems. For Venturia this area was used as a buffer against anything foreign to the galaxy. It was heavily militarized. The planets were not ideal for sustaining life and were often barren, save for these military bases. They often became homes of renegades and bandits.

[Cucoo5]

This just in: I'm thinking on saying Cicero And Nero are a type of ghost rather than life hackers.


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[Cucoo5]

Ok Guys, time to go back to Era of Heaven's Forge aka Shards of Starlight.

Primarily on what details there are and why things happened the way they did.

To list some things off that need defining/ ideas to help it work:

Temple of the Lost
- What did it have to make it important

The Mirror Sea
- Aside from being a gateway to the Manor of Eternity, what else is it supposed to be

The Artifacts of Heaven's Forge
- Mainly the reason for the different artifacts and why those things. Reasoning for these which are now tools to fight the Nihiliods.

The Three Organizations/Factions
- Venturian Empire and Noble Guardian Order might be what I stay with... Rather than having three.

What is going on in each Solar System?
- Aside from War of Alcyon and Senari Republic Crisis, I don't have much else for the others tbh.

Will add more as I think of em.

[Cucoo5]

perhpas...

...hmmm though where would she be lingering...
She might have been trapped outside of Heaven's Forge after it was sealed.
...which means she's somewhere in the Galaxy...


Ok so I need to look at the fact that, like everyone else, she has a relation to Aion in the fact that he had revived her after she was killed by Sol.

...dammit... where does she go-

...unless...

Unless she stays with Eleos who... goes back to Senarious...?

...If I said they all stay on Alcyon that would mean she would be on Alcyon.

Unless there's a wrecked ship in the Celestora system that she's "haunting" like she did before...

...let's go with that. So little Anna is hiding out on some wreckage.

mmm ok gotta shoehorn that in to the timeline...

[Koishi]

"Black Matter" Makes me think of the Dark Matter from Kirby, especially since you aid it's used to control Anankerisa's puppets. The Dark Matter had a habit of possessing people like puppets.

Perhaps Anan's just messing with people, such as what happened with Reaper in part 1. There's not much else. Yet.

[Cucoo5]

Eternal Galaxy Project

Ok I was just sitting here and realized a certain little girl that I had in SoS would still be alive in Phoenix...

Anankerisa...

This is relevant for a few reasons: the material she used to manipulate "puppets" is the same substance I'm now calling Black Matter. She used Corlaviri wires to control it and she could handle the substance...

So Caeles are not affected by Black Matter... We know that it's possible to give it some form of animation using Aura charged Corlaviri.

Anankerisa is capable of forcing herself into a sort of Fissure despite not having a direct ability to do so.

Now the question is what is she doing during Era of Rebirth and what else she is capable of...

...as well as coming up with a better name for Black Matter.


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[Cucoo5]

Yes it does...

tbh I think I'm coming full circle to the original inspiration from which Nihiliods came from: Aparoids from Star Fox... which also share that "Borg" theme of assimilating things into their hive mind.

...Actually that's a good word...

Nihiliods are assimilating information in order to improve their efficiency in killing all sentient life.

...quaint.

Also to remind myself for later and one part currently if people help with ideas for it...

This "Black Matter" as I'm calling it and possible connections to the Caeles.
There might be more to this strange material than just being odd.
Specifically it might be byproducts of an erased dimension which the Caeles had replaced with Heaven's Forge.