A Story As Old As Time Itself

Dec 04, 2008 20:13

ANNIHILATION DAY: PLUS 24
DEEP SPACE: UNCHARTEDThe universe existed on a delicate balance ( Read more... )

red shift, terrax the tamer, morg the executioner, ravenous, tenebrous, silver surfer, stardust, aegis, galactus, firelord, gabriel the air-walker, "annihilation"

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marvel_cosmic December 5 2008, 16:22:24 UTC
"Listen, herald.

"Know that the creation event us ever unknowable. Know also that when the Living Universe was young, it was of chaos. There was beauty, but it was the beauty of the void, formless and without intent.

"Cosmic consonance demanded that there be order to balance chaos.

"The Universe does not measure time. Know then, that by way of natural sequence, a balance was struck and cosmic consonance was set. From chaos arose order. From order, intent.

"They were the caretakers, conceived through intent and, each of them, tasked to maintain cosmic consonance. They were without will and without awareness of anything but the tasks set before them. They existed to serve the Living Universe.

"Proemial Gods, or so they came to be known. In time I came to know them by the names they dealt themselves, once purpose evolved into awareness. Antiphon The Overseer, first among equals, tasked with monitoring cosmic consonance. Brio Of Life, tasked with the welfare of fledgling life-forms. Diableri Of Chaos, because order unchecked leads to entropy. Aegis Of All Sorrows, tasked culling the Living Universe of divergences and aberrations. Tenebrous of the Darkness Between, tasked with The Black, the living matter that binds the universe and makes it whole.

"It was through Diableri that the Chaos Sprites came to be. Beings born of chaos, powerful beyond measure. They were Diableri's eyes and ears, minute sentinels tasked by their master to sow chaos amid order. These too served cosmic consonance.

"The Proemial Gods shepherded the young universe, maintaining the delicate balance between order and chaos, and the Living Universe expanded and flourished. Life thrived on countless worlds. Each life-form unique, each by choices made and actions taken, serving cosmic consonance.

"And so were the Proemial Gods much diminished and their age ended.

"But purpose had long ago evolved into awareness and awareness had become dark ambition. Diableri of chaos not see himself diminished and therefore sought to remake the universe in his image. To this end, through guile and cant, Diableri corrupted the purpose of the Proemial Gods and many came to embrace his dark ambition, foremost among them, Tenebrous Of The Darkness Between and Aegis Of All Sorrows.

"So were the Proemial Gods set against one another. There was war... and Gods died. Had Diableri not brought the wat to Galactus, he might have prevailed. His blind ambition was his undoing. Galactus is of greater purpose. Galactus knew the void and the spectral mater from which the void was shaped. Galactus is of POWER! Galactus' was the hand that slew Diableri. Galactus' the hand that imprisoned Tenebrous and Aegis for a time beyond measure.

"A time that has recently come to an end."

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sterling_soul December 5 2008, 17:18:28 UTC
The Surfer takes in the news quietly, head bowed in thought and comprehension. "And now they will be coming to stop the being who imprisoned them before, before resuming their war to reshape existence."

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marvel_cosmic December 5 2008, 20:15:42 UTC
"Of those freed from the Kyln by its destruction, none pose a greater threat than Tenebrous and Aegis. They still harbor Diableri's dark ambition. Given time, they will move to strike against Galactus, a mere act of vengeance. Given time, they will move to strike against the very universe. They will move to discipline this universe, enforce order as they would have it.

"They must not be given that time. Find them, herald. That Galactus would see this threat ended."

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sterling_soul December 5 2008, 20:32:57 UTC
There's times he might remind even the world-eater that he's no longer his herald. But not in times like these. Taking the news, and melding it with what he's learned from his visions, and his brief visit to Earth, the Surfer turns, and ventures back into the spaceways to begin what has to be a nigh-impossible search until they want to be found.

But he will succeed. He must succeed.

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