I. Nova

[eightofseven]

[It could be anywhere. Whether you are in town or in a field, you may feel that you're being watched.]

[Turn around, and you'll find him. Or maybe he's standing in front of you.]

[What will you do?]

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[galaxiapride]

[Shining One? He vaguely remembers him calling that... weirdo that.]

And you are his friend from home.

[eightofseven]

In a manner of speaking. I am invested in the affairs of his world, but it is not my home.

[galaxiapride]

[Well that gets all of his attention.]

To observe or to manipulate events?

[eightofseven]

Both.

[galaxiapride]

Nothing good ever comes from that.

[eightofseven]

Interesting. So that is what you think...

Was it wrong, then, to give the people freedom and power?

[galaxiapride]

They don't learn if they don't struggle on their own.

[eightofseven]

You are correct. That is why I intervened - so that they could struggle and learn.

[galaxiapride]

What was the state of that world?

[eightofseven]

At what time?

[He has a few millennia to work with here.]

[galaxiapride]

When you decided to meddle.

[eightofseven]

The human race simply was. They did not learn, merely keeping themselves alive.

They received culture, and nurtured it, and thus made real "living" possible.

[galaxiapride]

Then you and I are not that different.

so, are we going to say we got each others' MAs in that joint post of yours?

[eightofseven]

And yet, much separates us. How are we alike, then?

Unintentionally, yes.

[galaxiapride]

I wanted my own planet to be something beyond being lazy gluttons. With my own hands, I tried to change it.

OK, then.

[eightofseven]

Ah, I see. It worked, at first, but problems arose in modern times. Man's free spirit created so many purposes for life, the world was saturated with them. Life became easier... desires were easily met... and the will to live was lost. And so, it became the world that the Shining One knows so well.

[galaxiapride]

Is that the fate of many other worlds?

[eightofseven]

[ooc:That's a tricky question that the game never addresses. There are a lot of variables that I don't know about; how many worlds has Alcor kick-started, for instace? So have a sort-of-copout answer.]

From a relative perspective, no. My superior oversees many worlds, and I have seen but few of them. Strangely, it seems to have no power here.... What could that mean?

[galaxiapride]

From my experiences, it means this world might lie in an entirely different dimension, not just a different planet.

[eightofseven]

Ah, how is it that you already knew of such matters? That is what I had meant by "world".

[galaxiapride]

We've already achieved space travel, though we haven't the means to go any further than our galaxy. It's only been a few weeks since I was even able to travel to another dimension before coming here.

[eightofseven]

And how was that?

[galaxiapride]

It was... Saddening to see the ruins of such an advanced civilization.

[eightofseven]

[He waits for you to continue.]

[galaxiapride]

But I wonder if that was their own doing. There was hardly any organic lifeforms left on that world. Is that kind of progress worth their own destruction?