My Children Swarm the Cosmos – Chapter 179

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕𝟗: 𝐃𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 (5)

There was light.

And there was space.

Energy and matter spread through the turbulent fabric of space and time, and the universe expanded over eons by an unknown force.

The first intelligent being capable of thought was an organism, and this universe was not an environment in which this organism could be born, but rather an environment to which this organism was born and adapted.

Young stars were born and died, and old stars survived and died. Nebulae were created, and black holes and neutron stars were born, and in the process countless intelligent beings were born, became extinct, built civilizations, perished, and walked the paths of advancement and decline.

However, intelligent beings who were born and disappeared in the early universe are not remembered by anyone, and no one will be able to find their traces.

When the universe became black, the stars formed communities attracted by each other’s gravity, and that became the galaxy. Galaxies became galaxy clusters and galaxy groups, creating small worlds and large worlds.

The Ycloquasar.

They emerged as a mammalian species with two legs, two arms, one head, one mouth and nose, two eyes, and two ears.

They came ashore from the seas of their home planet and, mastering fire, created tools and clothing, and even began farming and mining.

Curiosity was the driving force that made them advance. In other words, it was their curiosity and imagination about things they could see and touch that made them advance so rapidly.

As they began to ‘advance,’ ‘evolution’ stopped. No matter how many years passed, the biological characteristics of their bodies did not change.

Machines took over the tasks that the body used to do, and artificial intelligences took over the tasks that the brain used to do. Without them knowing it, the path to transcending life was blocked, and only the path to transcending machines was opened.

Transcending machines liberated their bodies. They settled everywhere and increased their numbers, becoming a resilient body capable of surviving in any extreme environment.

Transcending machines also liberated their minds. With a cool mind capable of choosing the best option in any situation, they rapidly developed their own future.

In the end, whether they chose machines or life, everyone would eventually become that way in the long time given, and it would have been a future in which they would transcend one by one.

The Ycloquasar became the ancestor of various transcendental theories. When young races entered the space age by various methods and came into contact with them, the Ycloquasar had already reached a state where they could escape the galaxy cluster in which they lived.

That created a huge gap.

A huge gap meant a realm that the young races, who were younger than the Ycloquasar, could not understand.

So the young races looked at the Ycloquasar and exclaimed.

➖They are the gods of this universe.

➖They created this universe.

Or,

➖If we please the Ycloquasar, we too will be able to ascend.

➖The Ycloquasar is a highly advanced ancestral race. We must cooperate with them and ensure that we do not become a thorn in their side.

Or,

➖They are the agents of God.

➖They are the army of gods who follow God’s will. Let none of us oppose the Ycloquasar.

There were various interpretations of the Ycloquasar, but the interpretations of the young races commonly converged on the word god.

By that time, the Ycloquasar could no longer advance. There was nothing more to explore with science, and they already knew the story of this universe from beginning to end, so the only remaining homework in this universe, dark matter and dark energy, was too easy a problem,

They were no longer able to resolve the ‘curiosity’ that they had had since they were young.

Was it from then on?

The Ycloquasar began to resolve their curiosity with intelligent beings.

Young races sometimes grew and died while waging wars among themselves or making peace. In the process, young races that survived for a long time were even called ‘ancestral races’ by younger races that were born again. It is the repetition of the generations of races according to the relative era.

The Ycloquasar observed them from an omniscient point of view.

The grown races knew of the existence of the Ycloquasar, and at some point they recognized that the existence called the Ycloquasar had disappeared, and they really treated the Ycloquasar like gods.

On the other hand, the newly born young races did not even know about the existence of the Ycloquasar.

The Ycloquasar no longer contacted other intelligent beings.

They simply observed numerous stories from numerous worlds, and enjoyed various stories by chatting or imagining among themselves.

This was because there was too much time left in this universe, the problem of existence had already been solved, and there was no event that could threaten them, except for the distant future of the universe.

And more time passed. An amount of time passed that was unimaginable for most intelligent beings.

The mature races who knew of the existence of the Ycloquasar became extinct.

There were various reasons such as disputes, wars, improper transcendence, and improper choices.

In the end, only those who imagined the existence of the Ycloquasar as a proxy of God or a creator in the past remained. Even the name Ycloquasar, which had shown transcendental presence in the past, was eventually consumed by time and disappeared.

Time was already an infinite unit to the Ycloquasar, and it was just a flow that formed their surroundings. That is why the unit of time was meaningless to them.

Therefore, it is not precisely recorded when it was. It was just an event that occurred in the flow of the past.

➖Those creepy beings. . . . ! How long have they been watching our world. . . . !

There was a mature race that felt threatened or uncomfortable just by watching quietly.

The race had reached a state where, like the Ycloquasar, it could escape its galaxy cluster and explore the void.

Their fleet deployed an extensive gravitational field and wielded the accretion disk of a black hole. In addition, the neutron stars they had modified with machines fired powerful pulses, disrupting the Ycloquasar’s communication network, and even fired neutron stars smaller than 1 cm made of dark matter like shells.

It was truly a war of the gods.

Those who witnessed the battlefield in the void with telescopes from a distant planet would have just imagined that there was a strange celestial activity.

The war in the void between the Ycloquasar and the mature race was destructive enough to wipe out the machines and life forms of distant galaxies.

The Ycloquasar felt survival instincts and fear that they had long forgotten, and then realized.

➖We have been complacent.

➖We have been negligent.

The Ycloquasar, who were residents of the void, were able to fight the opposing race with an advantage in the war in the void.

Of course, the Ycloquasar had been a race that existed in a gap that was too large until now, so there was no experience of war, nor an army or weapons.

Still, the Ycloquasar was overwhelming.

It might have been like an army of ants preparing for war running to kill a human who had no experience in fighting.

➖You are dying because of your wrong choice.

The Ycloquasar sent weapons to the enemy fleet and the enemy’s planets and attacked them. And they overwhelmed the enemy by deploying a much stronger and wider gravitational field than the accretion disk of a black hole wielded by their fleet.

And they closed the vast space itself, the battlefield in the void, and rotated it at the speed of light to end the war.

Those inside the closed space would have fought until one side won. However, for the Ycloquasar outside the closed space, only a very short time had passed.

In other words, the races that had grown and matured to the point of escaping the galaxy cluster in the meantime ended the war in an instant.

➖. . . .

Why do we feel compassion when we see beings suffering or dying?

Why do we feel sorry when we do something to someone, or guilty when we do something to someone?

The origin of such thoughts and emotions is instinct derived from the racial characteristics of the community, and something learned.

That is good, and the opposite is evil.

However, such thoughts and learning had long been unnecessary for the Ycloquasar.

The Ycloquasar also formed a community called civilization and were united under the power of the same race, but since they had become strong enough for such things to become meaningless, there was no need to keep the things they had thought and learned before. Because it doesn’t matter if you don’t keep it.

There is no need to feel compassion when you see beings suffering or dying.

Anyway, there are no more of our kind who will experience such things.

There is no need to feel sorry when you do something to someone, or guilty when you do something to someone.

Anyway, no matter what we do, there is no variable itself that can punish us or make us pay the price.

There is no need to distinguish between good and evil. Since we have become justice.

The higher the level of advancement of a race, the slower the growth rate.

Since the Ycloquasar was a community that had almost reached the end, its growth rate was bound to be slower than that of other young races.

The relative difference in growth rates that occurred in this way clearly predicted the future.

➖Some day, beings who have caught up with us may also appear and fear and attack us.

Intelligent beings of other races = potential future threats

Although extreme, a formula close to a perfect theory was established from the Ycloquasar’s point of view.

➖Maintain the gap and hunt mature minds from various worlds with various perspectives.

➖The skills and abilities of mature minds may be insignificant, but the dreams and experiences they have will be resources that can advance us, who exist, even a little.

➖That is to protect our future, and it is a safety device and a fertilizer for the growth of the community that will never allow something like today to happen again.

More time passed after that. During that time, the Ycloquasar annihilated all life forms in the Laniakea Supercluster that were intelligent beings and had the potential to evolve into intelligent beings while scouring the Laniakea Supercluster.

While doing so, they ‘explored’ their own progress again.

➖There is a limit to hunting.

➖From now on, we too must sow seeds and harvest them.

➖Let time bear fruit and harvest it when the right time comes.

➖That way we can progress efficiently. And we can find a way to immortality beyond existence.

They created a map of the Laniakea Supercluster, divided the galaxy clusters and galaxy groups, and carefully planted seeds.

And they gathered at the ‘Great Attractor,’ the center of mass of the Laniakea Supercluster, and created the Ycloquasar ‘community,’ which became their ‘base camp.’

They took over all the enormous mass and energy there.

The weapons produced in the Great Attractor and the Ycloquasar spread out in all directions and planted seeds in each world.

And they waited for the time when the sown beings would be harvested, each standing guard at the boundary of the void of each galaxy cluster and galaxy group.

When the sown beings came out to the boundary of the void, they immediately invaded the galaxy cluster or galaxy group and harvested the beings with the most outstanding minds. In this way, they repeated the process of maintaining the gap, advancing, and eliminating potential threats at the same time.

And the last seed sown was the ‘human being.’

➖Humans are the seeds we expect the most. We will give humans the most time and give them the richest resources in their environment.

The role of humans was to follow a path of progress similar to that of the Ycloquasar, unite the Local Group of Galaxies, and become the most powerful transcendent race, and finally be harvested by the Ycloquasar.

Humans were the key seeds that would finally advance the Ycloquasar.

That’s why the Ycloquasar chose the Milky Way.

They intentionally rotated the molecular cloud with an appropriate width in an appropriate location to make it a nebula.

A young sun was formed and young planets were created in the fire pit. The remaining materials left after creating the sun were pushed to the relatively outer part of the orbit and wrapped round like a gift so that future humans could use them as rich gas resources.

And the fiery Earth was formed, no, created, in a perfect orbit where liquid water could exist.

➖In order to accelerate the rate of evolution and the entry into the cosmic era, we need a nearby celestial body.

So they took some of Earth’s mass and created the moon.

In addition, they created other planets in nearby orbits in case the humans who might be born on Earth ruin the environment and become extinct.

In this way, even if humans do not have the technology to escape the solar system, they will be able to achieve rapid exploration and progress in the cosmic era.

They dropped a powerful energy into the warm ocean of the planet and synthesized organic matter, and watched it become the seed of life.

➖We need combustible materials in stages that can be easily processed and used according to the times in order to increase the speed of progress.

They provided plants that could be easily found on the ground as the first combustible material.

➖We need to provide them with a more perfect environment than anywhere else.

They supplied oxygen and raised the temperature so that large animals could be active. And they dragged a meteorite and dropped it on the planet. Large animals were buried underground and matured properly as resources that future humans could use.

Only after such a perfect environment was created was it possible to plant the genetic imprint that would evolve into humans.

➖Since they are seeds that will advance like us, let’s create them in the image of when we were living beings.

And occasionally, unique humans who could feel the waves claimed that they had spiritual powers, and seeing the pure white spherical shape of the Ycloquasar disguised optically, they talked about it as a one-eyed monster or a ghost.

➖It seems that some unique mutants feel the waves of nature and witness our form or mass.

➖Anyway, with their technological level, they won’t be able to figure out our existence. We need to keep watching and observing them until humans leave footprints on nearby planets.

➖But if such doubts accumulate over several centuries. . . .

➖Then let’s change our form while we’re here to be like them. Then they will be able to come up with a suitable story and easily get over it when they see us.

The Ycloquasar repeatedly showed lightning strikes wherever humans went, repeatedly showing the young ones that fire.

As a result of repetitive learning, humans naturally felt curious about the phenomenon, just as the Ycloquasar had done before, and their curiosity was triggered.

➖They are following the path we have taken well.

They would be a race that would never fail in such an environment.

The Ycloquasar confirmed the core act of humans roasting meat on fire.

After that, humans also began to progress and reached the stage where they stopped evolving.

➖They still think their planet is flat even though we let them see the moon that they can see nearby.

➖Find young transcendents who are good at math and imprint their subconscious minds.

➖They still think they are at the center of the universe.

➖They can be like that because they are young. They will soon realize it because they know math.

➖Too many humans are killing each other. Aren’t they a bit more violent race than we expected. . . .

➖We need to make them realize that war can lead to self-destruction. Teach the beings who are constantly trying to advance the realization of nuclear fission.

➖A nuclear war broke out and they were on the verge of self-destruction. Wasn’t it a race that was much dumber than we thought. . . .

➖You’ll find out if you watch.

➖Humans have gathered their strength and left their home planet. They have finally begun to explore the neighboring planets of the solar system.

➖I thought they would overcome and survive and advance further.

➖Maybe we gave them a perfect environment, so there are more religions than necessary. If religions are not unified, the efficiency of the harvesting process may be reduced in the future.

➖There is something in common, so it’s okay.

➖Something in common?

➖They don’t know about our existence, but their imagination has created our existence.

That’s why they hoped that someday when they met humans, humans would willingly accept their fate.

They hoped that if they said that we are the gods who created you, most humans would be thrilled and accept any fate.

➖I’m sorry for the late introduction. Our community is called ‘the Ycloquasar.’ If it is the classification method of civilization in the Local Group of Galaxies, we can explain that we are also a race.

However, it was not humans who first came to the boundary of the void.

They provided the best environment, imitated their past forms and genetic imprints, and sowed seeds,

It couldn’t have been a more disappointing creation.

➖But you know. . . .

➖What did humans do for 390,000 years? They haven’t even properly unified the Local Group of Galaxies.

Humans were rolling a much larger variable than the Ycloquasar had expected.

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