The Plague: By Radrook
May 3, 2021 2:02:20 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on May 3, 2021 2:02:20 GMT -5
The Plague
By Radrook
By Radrook
The pacifist humanoid populations of the Milky Way Galaxy had always dwelled harmoniously amongst themselves. Warfare was unknown, and peaceful trade and mutual cooperation had been the norm. All scientific research and innovations were always dedicated to the tranquil improvement of the quality of life.
No military, nor law-enforcement organizations existed, because none were necessary. Each individual always behaved humanely towards others, regardless of species-differences.
Disagreements? Sure, there were disagreements. But they were always successfully settled via mutually advantageous compromises. It was simply the nature of their ways, an inexorably powerful instinctual tendency that assured a harmonious existence amongst all sentient reasoning creatures in the explored parts of the galaxy where such humanoids predominated.
It had remained this way since time immemorial, until humanoid explorers of distant regions in the Orion arm of our Milky Way galaxy encountered a an unbelievably absurd behavioral anomaly totally alien to non-aggressive humanoid minds. A humanoid species whose motivations seemed fanatically dedicated dominate, or else destroy all other sentient reasoning creatures they encountered.
For decades these tales were considered myths, and the peaceful humanoids laughed and mocked those few explorers who continued spreading them.
Then suddenly, trustworthy reports concerning displaced star-system populations were received, and harrowed and distraught refugees began arriving and seeking a safe haven. This first phase lasted for several centuries, leaving most targeted humanoid planets with small remnants of impoverished dwellers who had lacked the means to flee and had who had been promptly enslaved and relocated to mining and mineral refinement planets.
Unfortunately, humanoid civilizations incapable of warp drive could only flee to neighboring planets or else a to a nearby star systems several light-years away. But such meager efforts merely provided temporary respite, since what they referred to as the plague, would follow swiftly. So as the plague relentlessly approached, some non-warp-drive, yet space-faring, humanoid civilizations, hurriedly constructed gargantuan spaceships in which they could distance themselves into intergalactic space.
But such spaceships were few, since it required generations to construct such structures, via intense global cooperation motivated by morbid fear, and fear, was an emotion alien to the peaceful humanoids. Instead, the initial tendency had been to classify the approaching danger as imaginary because of its inherently perceived absurdity.
It was the same everywhere The Plague appeared. Eventually, under the constant violent pressure, half of the pacifist humanoids relocated to the satellite galaxies called the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds, while the other half found refuge in the approx. 150 globular clusters that orbit above and below the galactic plane. There, they had found a temporary peace.
Neither did most of these societies have the necessary time to react defensively, since The Plague would arrive too swiftly, targeting and wreaking, havoc with their infrastructures, and crippling any organized abilities to resist. But even those who did resist by fleeing, were swiftly overtaken and suffered the consequences of enslavement. Yes the plague was brutally relentless. Once it had run put of humanoid civilizations to enslave in the galaxy's outer regions, it inexorably began traveling inwards towards star systems closer to the galactic hub.
However, there, the plague was finally slowed and halted by the intense radiation generated by the galaxy’s central black hole. Of course, those few humanoid species who could tolerate or else thrive in that area, were safe from any further encroachment. But these survivors were limited to a handful since the intense radiation was lethal to almost all the other humanoids. Even those who had higher tolerance were forced to live underground. But better underground and free than to be enslaved by what they referred to as the plague.
Not that the humanoids referred to as The Plague did not try. Quite to the contrary, they incessantly probed the central galactic regions for weaknesses from every conceivable technological approach for decades, but could not discover a way to overcome the deadly obstacles. So instead, in a fit of frenetic and furious frustration, The Plague decided to pursue the other fleeing humanoid populations to the destinations that they had been chosen as havens of safety.
As a consequence, the peaceful-minded humanoid refugees in the globular clusters and Magellanic Clouds' were forced to abandon the worlds they had grown accustomed to view as their home planets once again. This time a more distant destination was chosen, the galaxy that The Plague referred to as Andromeda.
Habitable worlds were discovered and once more all seemed well at first. Yet, after a hundred years of social harmony, and of the Plague beginning to seem like some forgotten nightmare, they were once again tracked down and assailed, and forced to consider another galaxy as a refuge.
The local galaxy Triangulum, a satellite of Andromeda, was chosen next, but even there after a few hundred years the Plague Followed, finally forcing the peaceful-minded humanoids to realized that relocation was merely a temporary stop-gap measure, and that a permanent evasion of those referred to as The Plague, was veritably impossible.
Wherever they fled within this universe, there The Plague, who proudly referred to itself as the Human Race, and which fancied itself the crowning achievement of all creation, and entitled to dominate all other species, would always relentlessly follow in order to acquire slaves to do their bidding.
So desperately, the pacifist humanoids pooled all their scientific resources in one last-ditch, effort to escape, and discovered the way to evade further dangerous contact. They managed to gain access to another dimension where the the Plague calling itself the human race would never be able to follow, because it didn’t suspect that such a dimension existed and the technology to do so was far beyond their capability.
True, found extra-dimensional humanoid denizens there who wondered why they were being suddenly visited by vast numbers of nervous creatures who kept looking about as if expecting to be attacked at any moment. But once they had been informed, the extra-dimensionals welcomed the Pacifist humanoids with compassion.
In turn, the Pacifist Humanoids marveled. Yes, these Extra dimensional humanoids were physically different. They were much taller, and far larger than the members of The Plague, yet not as obsessed with domination of others and conquest. Leaving weaker Extra Dimensional humanoids unmolested, and occasionally bickering only amongst themselves.
Yet, eventually, for some reason beyond the peaceful refugee-humanoid comprehension, they began expressing an intense interest in The Plague. Previously they had simply listened wide-eyed with mouths agape and laugh heartedly whenever told about how vast populations had fled before it.
They had struggled to understand why no military resistance had been offered and always failed to comprehend the peaceful humanoid psychology that had prevented any military resistance. The more they heard, the greater the interest in beings referred to as The Plague increased until suddenly, the extra-Dimensionals were openlyrequesting a dimensional transfer to make contact with the Plague possible.
When advised of the danger, the peaceful humanoids were shown vast fleets of starships bristling with energy bolt weapons ad anti matter weapons. When asked why they wanted contact, they explained it to be a moral obligation. A necessary jihad, or holy war. A moral obligation.
But the peaceful humanoids sternly refused to assist. Revenge was not in their nature. Forgiveness was their only possible way. So the Xtra dimensionals respected their decision, and finally and totally dropped the matter.
Meanwhile, in the vast endless regions of regular space, the Plague raged in frustration as it kept finding only the silent, decrepit, remnants of cities on planets devoid of all humanoid life. No, the Plague, mankind, would surely not find this extra-dimensional hiding place, but if they eventually did, and dared to follow, then they would finally encounter a violent resistance from creatures much too kindred to themselves for their liking.
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