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Avatars of the Ancients and Avatars of Darkness
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
A galaxy is a continually evolving and changing beast. It is changed not just by the cold, mechanical forces of space/time, but by the living and breathing creatures that inhabit it. Vast vacuum spanning empires rise and fall, leaving echoes that permanently change the stars themselves, and alter the paths of those that come after them. Some echoes will fade over millennia, dying away into the background static of the birth of the universe. Other echoes of civilizations remain, persistent yet changing, down through the generations until they are not thought of as strange or unnatural, but as integral to the universe as light itself.
And then there are some echoes of the past which fade away but then, suddenly and with a resounding clash, blast back into life again. Ideas lost for millennia are rediscovered and radically change all that it encounters, like an ancient virus, mutating its modern hosts.
Two such ideas which have been rediscovered in the galaxy are the Way of the Ancients, and the Way of Darkness. The Way of the Ancients was practiced by the original inhabitants of the galaxy, and preached harmony and peace. The Way of Darkness in contrast was developed by an evil and ancient empire that extended its cruel reign to the farthest stars. The Way of Darkness seeks to subjugate or eradicate all in its path.
But these are not the only echoes which are now being rediscovered. With the powerful philosophies the ancients created, they also created powerful technology. These technologies were linked inextricably with the ideas of their masters, they were a physical expression, the ultimate physical expression, of the pinnacle of the civilizations’ knowledge and power. Designed to define, support, and ultimately impose the Way of their masters.
Just as the ancient Ways are being rediscovered, so too are the physical expressions of those Ways; the Avatars.
Avatars are such advanced technology that their internal constitution is unknown. Both Avatars of the Ancients, and Avatars of Darkness are similar in appearance, being nebulous, glowing spheres. Theories have been put forward that they do not completely exist in the 4 dimensions of normal space, but occupy several higher dimensions as well. Although the dimensions they occupy are different for each of the Ways. The Avatars of the Ancients occupy shorter extra dimensional space, which compresses the light they emit, shifting it into the blue and ultra-violet spectrum. Avatars of Darkness occupy longer extra dimensional space, lengthening the light they emit which shifts it into the red and infra-red spectrum.
These autonomous constructs have lain dormant for millennia, waiting until the day when once again the Ways are brought into the galaxy. On occasion they are disturbed by a foolish explorer, at which time they will re-awaken.
Although their energy based attacks are powerful, their eon long sleep has weakened their once powerful force fields, making them susceptible to sustained fire from modern warships. Given time to recuperate however, their powers will increase until they are nigh on invincible.
Avatars will welcome followers of their philosophy, and will not attack those who follow the true Way (as they see it). All others will be seen as enemies. On rare occasions, Avatars of different Ways will awaken in the same system, and will ignore all else in a fight to the death.
Now, for the first time in millions of years, the Avatars have returned!
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