Genesis Echo : Book 1: Monomyth

100 billion stars spinning, colliding, creating. A spiral of gas and dust, not exceptionally large by any galactic standards of such systems, but exceptional it was. At first glance, nothing but a seemingly never-ending clash of chaotic movement. Zoom in or out in any direction and chaos would eventually evolve into order. Change the viewpoint once again in either direction and order returns to chaos. But so is the nature of such things.

This particular system was special because it was dense in just the right celestial nutrients, containing the perfect combinations to create life. With almost as many planets as stars in this fertile vortex of matter, life arose in multitudes. And at an even more stunning rate, intelligence evolved. The rise and fall of sentient societies was almost commonplace – but most often these star peoples never met or even knew of one another's existence.

Too far flung out on the spiraling arms of their galactic system, riding the sweeping current of gravitational forces and locked securely on their planetary capsules, most of the star peoples simply faded away when their finite resources were used up. Most never knew there were others around them.

But as with any system of probabilities, this galaxy had outliers, statistical anomalies: abnormalities. What was truly remarkable about this galaxy was that at one peculiar time, no less than seven intelligent species all found each other. What resulted would change the universe forever. Like the struggling currents of matter that incubated their evolution, caught in tides beyond their comprehension, the beings’ crash and recoil against one another was inevitable. The change that became of consequence to their meeting was, simply put, incalculable.

As is the nature of such things – this is where our story lies.