The Bromeris civilization devotes the majority of its resources to the collection of knowledge. It is helpful to define the word “knowledge” as the Bromeris understand it. The culture believes that a true understanding of their world, their reality, and the universe at large, lies in completing the true timeline of the history of the universe. The majority of Bromeris scholars believe that no event is too small to affect the greater trajectory of time and the things busy changing within space, and for this reason, the Bromeris are constantly updating their Eternity Archive with stories, accounts, anecdotes, etc, that when combined together approaches a complete history of all time and existence. The Eternity Archive is a high powered computer and contains information that if printed, would be a book that details all of the events that have transpired in existence since Time and Space first started their never ending pursuit of intrigue and one another. The Eternity Archive is massive today and takes a huge amount of energy to power. The processors that support the archive were redesigned by the renowned Fhetatian scientist Telyne Sle-ay so that it can be powered by renewable sources like the wind that is easy to collect on the planet Bromeran. Despite its current size, the Eternity Archive is far from complete and there is even a contingent of Bromeris scholars who are petitioning for a change to the name.
Employment at the Bromeris Ultimate Library is required by all inhabitants of the planet Bromeran. When a Bromeris reaches adulthood, they are trained in the various library sciences at one of the 96 branches of the Ultimate Library for at least 5 years before they are free to pursue any other career. Many choose to stay on as employees and those who do not, find work off planet or settle for contract work on Bromeran where they can find it.
One such Bromeris scholar, a man named Solse Prab, was a loner, even by Bromeris standards. It is not uncommon for Bromeris scholars, or students, to spend the majority of their waking hours in silence, solitude, and lost in study, but Solse would even skip required social events that were mandated by law so that he could read stories about beings on far off planets in the universe. He didn’t care what the stories were about, he just liked to know what was happening in a part of space that he could not even fathom. Solse enjoyed translations of Druinte transcripts from their amazing Universal Translator that was like a camera with a display that would translate the words and actions of most any being in the known universe into a movie that a Druinte could comprehend. It was this Druinte technology that alerted the Bromeris of the experiences of seemingly inanimate objects that were being excluded from the Eternity Archive. Solse appreciated that the giant red mountains on the planet Eel were sentient and had seen the majority of the evolution of the its planet, and the transcripts from the translator that details their accounts are mind blowing. The red mountains had knowledge of atmospheric conditions of the planet that the sentient Eeling had not figured out. And their perspective of the various wars and conflicts that waged between different factions and districts that the population organized themselves into, showed how silly these conflicts can seem from a distance. Recent technological advances on the planet Earth that has allowed for the digitization of many of the literary works created by Earthlings, have allowed the Bromeris to access their stories and textbooks and Solse pours through the ones that have been made available to the public.
It’s his instincts as a librarian that are highly valued by the Bromeris, that fuels his interests in the stories of the universe. Solse knew that the Bromeris existed to complete the Eternity Archive, it was believed that when completed it would be the answer to every question, but he understood that with each second that passed, countless stories were progressing all over the universe, and the goal of completing the archive was becoming less achievable. How could his people hope to gather every story, every minute detail of the universe, if they could not be everywhere to witness them? It was a question that Solse posed to his fellow students and professors, even the Executive Librarians of the Ultimate Library, and Solse got the impression that they were happy not to contemplate an answer. They accepted the futility of their life’s mission and smiled that it gave them purpose. Solse may have retreated for that reason. He thought them all frauds for their refusal to solve this problem so that their life’s mission had a chance of being completed one day. And Solse dedicated himself to finding that solution.
But how does one record eternity?
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