Post by Mr.Bobert on Aug 16, 2010 19:04:40 GMT -5
Introduction
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, an advanced race known as the Alterans discovered a galaxy not that far away from the two galaxies they currently inhabited. A small fleet was sent to this galaxy to scout it out, and, after several years of exploring, they colonized it and declared it to be under their protection. They provided aid to the less advanced races that already inhabited the galaxy, and dispatched large ships to build and deploy their greatest invention, the Stargate, on many worlds. They built several of their magnificent City-Ships to act as headquarters and bases, as well as places to live, and stationed these ships strategically around the galaxy, equal distances away from each other.
After a century, another race, known now only as the Forerunners, came to the galaxy by means of an experimental new Slipstream Space drive. The drive malfunctioned after they arrived, and though they could send and receive messages from their own Universe, they could not return. They warned their superiors not to send any assistance, lest they become stranded as well.
In their single damaged Dreadnought, unable to jump into Slipspace, they floated adrift in space for several days, losing all hope. That is, until the Alterans came to investigate. They welcomed the Forerunners, and they combined their technologies, and created an even more advanced society, prepared to assist the less-advanced races of the galaxy from any disaster or threat.
The threat came after only five decades. Another highly advanced race, known as the Reapers, came to the galaxy by unknown means, and began to 'cull' several races in the outer edges of the galaxy. The Forerunner and Alterans rushed through hyperspace in their warships to intervene, but they were too far away to get there in time. But help came the same way the Reapers did.
A small fleet of another race, known as the Protheans, and from the same Universe as the Reapers, pursued the Reapers, and prevented them from from escaping long enough for the Alteran and Forerunner ships to arrive. The massive Armada destroyed the invading Reapers, rescuing the races they had attempted to 'cull'. The small Prothean fleet was, like the Forerunners, unable to their home Universe. The Alterans and Forerunners accepted the Protheans into their alliance, creating an even more powerful society. Nothing could stand their might.
Nothing, except, the Flood. The Flood were a parasitic race that took control of the mind and the body of any sentient being they infected. They came from the same Universe as the Forerunners, in captured--and somehow fully functional-- Forerunner ships. By the time the newly formed Presullian Alliance--The Alteran/Forerunner/Prothean Alliance, named after the Alteran word for 'protectors'-- arrived to stop the incursion, it was too late. The Flood had already consumed several planets, adding millions to its massive army. Though the Presullians were able to win nearly every battle thanks to their superior technology, any casualties were just absorbed into the ranks of the Flood. They saw no way to win the war.
That is, until a message from the Forerunners was received on the original Forerunner Dreadnought. It told that the Forerunners had been defeated in their home galaxy, but had managed to stop the Flood--by creating weapons to destroy all sentient life in the galaxy. And the plans to these weapons, the Halos, were included in the message.
Though originally opposed to the idea, the Presullians realized after several years of being slowly pushed back by the Flood that they only had one choice: They had to build and use the Halos.
With the combined might of the three different races, a Halo-building construct, known as the Ark, was built fairly quickly. They then used the Ark to build seven Halo installations, and placed them strategically around the galaxy for maximum destruction. They then proceeded to gather samples from every species in the galaxy they could find, and stored the genetic data aboard the Ark. They then used the remnants of the fleet to bring as many survivors as they could to the planet-like surface of the Ark. They rode the ark out of the galaxy, into another, smaller galaxy nearby, that had been mostly unexplored, labeled, simply, the Beta galaxy, where the Flood had not been yet been able to spread, and just barely beyond the reach of the Halos.
Then they activated the Halos.
All sentient life in the galaxy was instantly destroyed. The Presullians transported the surviving natives back to their homeplanets, and replanted the seeds of life of sentient species that had become extinct. They begun to rebuild, but with their small numbers, were unable to completely retake their old galaxy. Instead, they rebuilt in the Beta galaxy, And gave it an actual name: 'Vegrandis', which meant, in Alteran, 'Hope'. They built a more advanced Stargate system in the Vegrandis galaxy, And, on an oceanic planet orbiting a Star near the black hole and center of Vegrandis, built the Showa Outpost, an underground/underwater network of buildings and tunnels on the Planet Showa. In the massive database, they stored all of their knowledge.
Several years passed, and the surviving Presullians realized, they could not protect either the Vegrandis Galaxy, or the Alpha Galaxy, and that they were likely a target for any other advanced races, like the Reapers. So, they traveled to the place where the Alterans had first come upon the galaxy, a small solar system thousands of lightyears away from the outer rim of the Alpha galaxy. They were so few in number, that they were able to travel there in one of the few remaining Alteran City-Ships--in fact, the very first on the Alterans had built, named Altera--and only a few other Alteran Warships. The Presullians built a massive Supergate, a massive version of the Stargate, connected it to the one in their own Milky Way galaxy, and left forever, submerging Altera in the oceans of the planet, protected by a nearly-powered down shield from the crushing weight of the water.
Discovery
In another Universe, far, far away, and thousands of years in the future, an evil Galactic Empire ruled over an entire galaxy. The ruler of this Empire, Emperor Abotim Jokanah, a Sith Lord, was constantly trying to obtain new technology with which to use to further tighten his grip on the galaxy. One project he started, simply called ‘Project Time’, was made with hopes of creating a time-travelling device with which to go into the future, and bring back advanced technology. The lead scientist was a brilliant Quarren, Doctor Tessek Hesh, who, under the old anti-alien policies of the Empire, had been assigned to an underfunded project for upgrading repulsorlift technology on a backwater planet in the Outer Rim, despite having one of the greatest minds in the galaxy.
With his new assignment in Project Time, with an unlimited amount of funding and support from the Emperor himself, Hesh got to work immediately. While more scientists and resources were being shipped to their research outpost on the agricultural world of Taanab, Tessek and his small team of ten scientists got to work immediately. Within the first week, they had a major breakthrough: They were able to send a small rock into the future-- by five minutes.
Greatly impressed by even this small feat, the Emperor immediately begun sending even more resources to the Tanaab research station. He even sent the team a modified Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the XISD3, as a mobile testing facility to perform experiments too dangerous to perform near a planet, as well as a ship to mount any successful time-travelling device on. The plan was, if Project Time was a success, the XISD3, modified to have a larger hangar, would be filled with Storm Commandos and their TIE Hunters. Any resistance they encountered in the future would likely have superior weaponry, but the Emperor and Doctor Hesh theorized that even advanced ships of the future would not be able to fight off a giant swarm of elite pilots in one of the Empire’s most advanced starfighters to date, the TIE Hunter.
At first, Project Time seemed to be going extremely well, and under the leadership of Doctor Hesh, quite quickly. The ever-growing team of brilliant scientists were able to send larger and larger objects farther and farther into the future. Their greatest experiment was the sending of a freighter-sized asteroid five hours into the future. Still, though, they were unable to send any living creatures into the future; for unknown reasons, the test animals would always die.
After several more months, the team was unable to make any more significant progress, and the Emperor begun turning his focus back to the war with the rebels. Funding was slowly cut, and many members of the team were reassigned. Emperor Jokanah even threatened to take the XISD3 away.
Frustrated but determined, Hesh refused to give up. However, without the full disposal of the infinite Imperial resources, he was forced to look elsewhere for information. After a month of questioning black-market information brokers, Hesh was led to an unnamed, unexplored star system just a few light-years out in the Unknown Regions of the galaxy. He found a barren planet orbiting a white dwarf star. Supposedly, according to his source, the planet was once a great Sith stronghold during the Great Sith War.
The broker was soon proven right, after the XISD3’s powerful sensors detected a giant network of underground tunnels. Doctor Hesh hired a professional excavation team, and within days, they had uncovered the entrance to the Sith stronghold.
It appeared that in the final days of the stronghold, a great battle between the followers of the Sith Lord who controlled the base, Darth Marudeth, and attacking forces led by a rival Sith Lord, Darth Umbrus. The tunnels were littered with skeleton-filled suits of Sith Soldier armor and skeletons still wearing torn black Sith robes. Many bodies were missing arms, legs, and heads, which sat nearby, chopped off by lightsabers. A few bodies had even been cleaved clean in half. Unlit lightsabers and ancient blasters were scattered all over. The floor, walls and ceiling were all covered with scorch marks from blasters and grenades, and everything was covered in a fine layer of dust.
Doctor Hesh immediately sent out teams to explore the tunnel network. After only a few hours they had found what appeared to be a large research laboratory. The equipment was miraculously undamaged, and a few computers looked like they had even been quickly repaired, as if the attackers had been trying to take that room intact. After powering the ancient computers with a brand new portable power source, Doctor Hesh found out why.
Darth Marudeth had been conducting research similar to Project Time, and had accidentally created something far more powerful then a time machine: a Metaverse machine. This had allowed him to travel to the Presul galaxy in an entirely different universe. Darth Umbrus, Marudeth’s arch enemy, and another Sith Lord, had found out about this machine, and had attacked Marudeth’s stronghold with a large team of Sith Commandos in search of it. Marudeth retreated to the Presul galaxy, taking his large fleet--and the Metaverse machine-- with him. Darth Umbrus found his research, and followed him. The records ended there.
With the research from Marudeth’s computers, Hesh was able to build a Metaverse drive within days of returning to Tanaab. Doctor Hesh’s first thought was to go straight to the Emperor with his latest breakthrough. But he remembered that the Emperor had lost faith in Project Time, and, worse, Doctor Hesh, after only several months. So, instead, he kept the information to himself and hatched a plan.
First, Hesh created a virus. He then uploaded it to Coruscant’s database via the holonet. The virus searched out all the accounts in all the banks on Coruscant, and skimmed a credit here, two credits there, and deposited it all into a single account. In just a few hours, Doctor Hesh was a billionaire.
With his new wealth, Hesh proceeded to bribe every single member of Project Time. Those that refused were simply and quickly thrown out an airlock. Hesh couldn’t let the Emperor know of his little mutiny. After he had a loyal crew for the XISD3, he requisitioned a nearly full compliment of TIE Phantoms and two squadrons of TIE Defenders, bribing the officials that moved them for him.
With the hangar nearly full, Hesh began upgrading the XISD3 itself. He first coated the XISD3 in several layers of a matte-black layer of paint that absorbed sensors, and also made it difficult to see with the naked eye. Along with that, he installed an ancient, but, when paired with the special paint, effective, cloaking device with plans from the Sith stronghold. From what Hesh saw, he thought that Marudeth had actually stolen those plans from Umbrus. Instead of adding new weapons, Hesh decided to instead simply upgrade the current ones. And, finally, he installed the Metaverse drive onto the newly named Experiment, and they departed for the Presul galaxy, to explore without the restraints of the Empire.
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, an advanced race known as the Alterans discovered a galaxy not that far away from the two galaxies they currently inhabited. A small fleet was sent to this galaxy to scout it out, and, after several years of exploring, they colonized it and declared it to be under their protection. They provided aid to the less advanced races that already inhabited the galaxy, and dispatched large ships to build and deploy their greatest invention, the Stargate, on many worlds. They built several of their magnificent City-Ships to act as headquarters and bases, as well as places to live, and stationed these ships strategically around the galaxy, equal distances away from each other.
After a century, another race, known now only as the Forerunners, came to the galaxy by means of an experimental new Slipstream Space drive. The drive malfunctioned after they arrived, and though they could send and receive messages from their own Universe, they could not return. They warned their superiors not to send any assistance, lest they become stranded as well.
In their single damaged Dreadnought, unable to jump into Slipspace, they floated adrift in space for several days, losing all hope. That is, until the Alterans came to investigate. They welcomed the Forerunners, and they combined their technologies, and created an even more advanced society, prepared to assist the less-advanced races of the galaxy from any disaster or threat.
The threat came after only five decades. Another highly advanced race, known as the Reapers, came to the galaxy by unknown means, and began to 'cull' several races in the outer edges of the galaxy. The Forerunner and Alterans rushed through hyperspace in their warships to intervene, but they were too far away to get there in time. But help came the same way the Reapers did.
A small fleet of another race, known as the Protheans, and from the same Universe as the Reapers, pursued the Reapers, and prevented them from from escaping long enough for the Alteran and Forerunner ships to arrive. The massive Armada destroyed the invading Reapers, rescuing the races they had attempted to 'cull'. The small Prothean fleet was, like the Forerunners, unable to their home Universe. The Alterans and Forerunners accepted the Protheans into their alliance, creating an even more powerful society. Nothing could stand their might.
Nothing, except, the Flood. The Flood were a parasitic race that took control of the mind and the body of any sentient being they infected. They came from the same Universe as the Forerunners, in captured--and somehow fully functional-- Forerunner ships. By the time the newly formed Presullian Alliance--The Alteran/Forerunner/Prothean Alliance, named after the Alteran word for 'protectors'-- arrived to stop the incursion, it was too late. The Flood had already consumed several planets, adding millions to its massive army. Though the Presullians were able to win nearly every battle thanks to their superior technology, any casualties were just absorbed into the ranks of the Flood. They saw no way to win the war.
That is, until a message from the Forerunners was received on the original Forerunner Dreadnought. It told that the Forerunners had been defeated in their home galaxy, but had managed to stop the Flood--by creating weapons to destroy all sentient life in the galaxy. And the plans to these weapons, the Halos, were included in the message.
Though originally opposed to the idea, the Presullians realized after several years of being slowly pushed back by the Flood that they only had one choice: They had to build and use the Halos.
With the combined might of the three different races, a Halo-building construct, known as the Ark, was built fairly quickly. They then used the Ark to build seven Halo installations, and placed them strategically around the galaxy for maximum destruction. They then proceeded to gather samples from every species in the galaxy they could find, and stored the genetic data aboard the Ark. They then used the remnants of the fleet to bring as many survivors as they could to the planet-like surface of the Ark. They rode the ark out of the galaxy, into another, smaller galaxy nearby, that had been mostly unexplored, labeled, simply, the Beta galaxy, where the Flood had not been yet been able to spread, and just barely beyond the reach of the Halos.
Then they activated the Halos.
All sentient life in the galaxy was instantly destroyed. The Presullians transported the surviving natives back to their homeplanets, and replanted the seeds of life of sentient species that had become extinct. They begun to rebuild, but with their small numbers, were unable to completely retake their old galaxy. Instead, they rebuilt in the Beta galaxy, And gave it an actual name: 'Vegrandis', which meant, in Alteran, 'Hope'. They built a more advanced Stargate system in the Vegrandis galaxy, And, on an oceanic planet orbiting a Star near the black hole and center of Vegrandis, built the Showa Outpost, an underground/underwater network of buildings and tunnels on the Planet Showa. In the massive database, they stored all of their knowledge.
Several years passed, and the surviving Presullians realized, they could not protect either the Vegrandis Galaxy, or the Alpha Galaxy, and that they were likely a target for any other advanced races, like the Reapers. So, they traveled to the place where the Alterans had first come upon the galaxy, a small solar system thousands of lightyears away from the outer rim of the Alpha galaxy. They were so few in number, that they were able to travel there in one of the few remaining Alteran City-Ships--in fact, the very first on the Alterans had built, named Altera--and only a few other Alteran Warships. The Presullians built a massive Supergate, a massive version of the Stargate, connected it to the one in their own Milky Way galaxy, and left forever, submerging Altera in the oceans of the planet, protected by a nearly-powered down shield from the crushing weight of the water.
Discovery
In another Universe, far, far away, and thousands of years in the future, an evil Galactic Empire ruled over an entire galaxy. The ruler of this Empire, Emperor Abotim Jokanah, a Sith Lord, was constantly trying to obtain new technology with which to use to further tighten his grip on the galaxy. One project he started, simply called ‘Project Time’, was made with hopes of creating a time-travelling device with which to go into the future, and bring back advanced technology. The lead scientist was a brilliant Quarren, Doctor Tessek Hesh, who, under the old anti-alien policies of the Empire, had been assigned to an underfunded project for upgrading repulsorlift technology on a backwater planet in the Outer Rim, despite having one of the greatest minds in the galaxy.
With his new assignment in Project Time, with an unlimited amount of funding and support from the Emperor himself, Hesh got to work immediately. While more scientists and resources were being shipped to their research outpost on the agricultural world of Taanab, Tessek and his small team of ten scientists got to work immediately. Within the first week, they had a major breakthrough: They were able to send a small rock into the future-- by five minutes.
Greatly impressed by even this small feat, the Emperor immediately begun sending even more resources to the Tanaab research station. He even sent the team a modified Imperial-class Star Destroyer, the XISD3, as a mobile testing facility to perform experiments too dangerous to perform near a planet, as well as a ship to mount any successful time-travelling device on. The plan was, if Project Time was a success, the XISD3, modified to have a larger hangar, would be filled with Storm Commandos and their TIE Hunters. Any resistance they encountered in the future would likely have superior weaponry, but the Emperor and Doctor Hesh theorized that even advanced ships of the future would not be able to fight off a giant swarm of elite pilots in one of the Empire’s most advanced starfighters to date, the TIE Hunter.
At first, Project Time seemed to be going extremely well, and under the leadership of Doctor Hesh, quite quickly. The ever-growing team of brilliant scientists were able to send larger and larger objects farther and farther into the future. Their greatest experiment was the sending of a freighter-sized asteroid five hours into the future. Still, though, they were unable to send any living creatures into the future; for unknown reasons, the test animals would always die.
After several more months, the team was unable to make any more significant progress, and the Emperor begun turning his focus back to the war with the rebels. Funding was slowly cut, and many members of the team were reassigned. Emperor Jokanah even threatened to take the XISD3 away.
Frustrated but determined, Hesh refused to give up. However, without the full disposal of the infinite Imperial resources, he was forced to look elsewhere for information. After a month of questioning black-market information brokers, Hesh was led to an unnamed, unexplored star system just a few light-years out in the Unknown Regions of the galaxy. He found a barren planet orbiting a white dwarf star. Supposedly, according to his source, the planet was once a great Sith stronghold during the Great Sith War.
The broker was soon proven right, after the XISD3’s powerful sensors detected a giant network of underground tunnels. Doctor Hesh hired a professional excavation team, and within days, they had uncovered the entrance to the Sith stronghold.
It appeared that in the final days of the stronghold, a great battle between the followers of the Sith Lord who controlled the base, Darth Marudeth, and attacking forces led by a rival Sith Lord, Darth Umbrus. The tunnels were littered with skeleton-filled suits of Sith Soldier armor and skeletons still wearing torn black Sith robes. Many bodies were missing arms, legs, and heads, which sat nearby, chopped off by lightsabers. A few bodies had even been cleaved clean in half. Unlit lightsabers and ancient blasters were scattered all over. The floor, walls and ceiling were all covered with scorch marks from blasters and grenades, and everything was covered in a fine layer of dust.
Doctor Hesh immediately sent out teams to explore the tunnel network. After only a few hours they had found what appeared to be a large research laboratory. The equipment was miraculously undamaged, and a few computers looked like they had even been quickly repaired, as if the attackers had been trying to take that room intact. After powering the ancient computers with a brand new portable power source, Doctor Hesh found out why.
Darth Marudeth had been conducting research similar to Project Time, and had accidentally created something far more powerful then a time machine: a Metaverse machine. This had allowed him to travel to the Presul galaxy in an entirely different universe. Darth Umbrus, Marudeth’s arch enemy, and another Sith Lord, had found out about this machine, and had attacked Marudeth’s stronghold with a large team of Sith Commandos in search of it. Marudeth retreated to the Presul galaxy, taking his large fleet--and the Metaverse machine-- with him. Darth Umbrus found his research, and followed him. The records ended there.
With the research from Marudeth’s computers, Hesh was able to build a Metaverse drive within days of returning to Tanaab. Doctor Hesh’s first thought was to go straight to the Emperor with his latest breakthrough. But he remembered that the Emperor had lost faith in Project Time, and, worse, Doctor Hesh, after only several months. So, instead, he kept the information to himself and hatched a plan.
First, Hesh created a virus. He then uploaded it to Coruscant’s database via the holonet. The virus searched out all the accounts in all the banks on Coruscant, and skimmed a credit here, two credits there, and deposited it all into a single account. In just a few hours, Doctor Hesh was a billionaire.
With his new wealth, Hesh proceeded to bribe every single member of Project Time. Those that refused were simply and quickly thrown out an airlock. Hesh couldn’t let the Emperor know of his little mutiny. After he had a loyal crew for the XISD3, he requisitioned a nearly full compliment of TIE Phantoms and two squadrons of TIE Defenders, bribing the officials that moved them for him.
With the hangar nearly full, Hesh began upgrading the XISD3 itself. He first coated the XISD3 in several layers of a matte-black layer of paint that absorbed sensors, and also made it difficult to see with the naked eye. Along with that, he installed an ancient, but, when paired with the special paint, effective, cloaking device with plans from the Sith stronghold. From what Hesh saw, he thought that Marudeth had actually stolen those plans from Umbrus. Instead of adding new weapons, Hesh decided to instead simply upgrade the current ones. And, finally, he installed the Metaverse drive onto the newly named Experiment, and they departed for the Presul galaxy, to explore without the restraints of the Empire.