The Ascendant will describe the happening this way:
The increased speed of the demise of the universe is predicted and will impede the ultimate potential of our great existence. We posit, as has been offered before, that given enough time, any sentient species can attain a state of relative godhood. It is helpful to define godhood as a scientific term.
We define godhood as the state of complete awareness of the physical realm in which a being finds itself; the word evolved from antiquated notions of deities that existed in less sophisticated populations of sentient beings. The term godhood has been applied to a few sentient beings of the universe, notably the Red Mountains formerly of the planet Eel that were destroyed many rounts ago. The Red Mountains were a sentient race of fungi that infected rocks that formed the planet Eel, and eventually formed into the planet’s large mountain chain that covered much of the surface. The Red Mountains were the largest example of a neurosystem, similar to a brain, in its existence, and it was never sufficiently settled if the Red Mountains were a single being, or if it was a large network of individual beings who attained perfect cooperation. It took millennia for the Eeling, the seemingly dominant sentient species of the planet Eel, to develop a means to communicate with the Red Mountains, though the Mountains had been carefully observing the Eeling since the species developed into complex communities across its ranges. The complex neurosystem of the Red Mountains allowed them to sense other complex neurosystems in its vicinity, a range that grew as the Mountains aged. They were tacet observers of the universe, natural eavesdroppers and spies with the ability to hear and remember thoughts and actions of anything within the scope of it’s awareness. At the destruction of Eel, the Red Mountains were predominantly composed of the fungus and only a small percentage was rocky material, and this is likely the reason that the mental awareness of the Mountains seemed to span the breadth of the known universe. We have verified this by studying very rare samples of the Mountains that floated through space after Eel’s destruction. We Ascendant were capable of communication with the samples without any scientific intervention, and we learned much about the knowledge of the great Red Mountains before the samples became unresponsiveness. We believe the samples to be dead, though we are not sure and it is possible that they are merely in a dormant period and have been for a long time. The godhood of the Red Mountains is ultimately conjecture, it is impossible to verify all of the anecdotes gathered from the sample because our numbers are not great enough now to check them against the Eternity Archive. Our numbers are large, we are well over 30 billion, but the Archive is massive and takes considerable time and manpower to access. We consider the Red Mountains to be the prime example of secular, scientific godhood. The limitations of its godhood were apparent in it’s lack of free movement, which made it incapable of exercising the knowledge that it gathered from it’s godhood. We heard the tragic tale of the Red Mountains’ demise; they were aware of the zealots from the planet Oin who thought claims of the Mountains’ godhood blasphemous and sought to destroy them as a symbol to the universe. The mountains were helpless to defend themselves when the planet was obliterated and the pieces that drifted space slowly died, severed from their collective.
Given enough time, the Red Mountains could have devised proper defense, but such is the nature of the universe.
We Ascendant exist as the last species of the universe, and given enough time we will attain godhood ourselves. We will compensate for all of our deficiencies and gain knowledge of the eternity of our universe.
But something happened long ago that ensures that we Ascendant will not be allowed sufficient time to realize our potential. This is tragic for all of the sentient beings that existed before us because we believe that they all existed for this aim, to achieve a kind of godhood that allows us to be caretakers for the existence that sustains us. Every sentient life, every triumph and tragedy, every great love and intense rivalry, the cruel deaths and miraculous births, they were all necessary so that we Ascendant could learn and make the necessary push to protect existence and preserve and encourage the creation of new sentience. We exist to achieve eternity, not to simply approach it.
The impossibility of achieving eternity is attributed to the happening. This event is mysterious and even the Eternity Archive is bereft of information that describes the cause of the rapid expansion of the universe towards its demise and eventual restart that will undoubtedly be the end of the Ascendant if we can survive to that point in time, which we are very capable of doing.
We believe that the happening was likely the result of activity within a realm of existence that is known as the Dark Quinspace, historically referred to as dark matter and dark energy. We know that there was a time when the Quinspace was inhabited by sentient beings capable of influencing A-space, or the physical realm that we inhabit. Those of us Ascendant capable of accessing the Dark Quinspace report that it has much less activity than it once did, and the realm, this veil existence, is mostly barren, the magic stale. The nature of the Quinspace is accurately referred to as magical because our science, and the science of all of our peer civilizations in the universe before their extinctions, are incapable of explaining it in the same detail that we explain A-space. We posit that knowledge of the Quinspace, true understanding of its nature, can only be achieved by gaining eternal knowledge of A-space, because of the intimate association of the two. We gather information on every parallel universe that Top inhabits sporadically, and it is similar, with variations; we simply require more time to achieve our goals regardless of the parallel we inhabit.
In order to gather sufficient understanding of our universe and our place within it, and eventually as it’s steward or ruler, we must find a way to prevent the mysterious happening of so long ago.
Models created by the Eternity Archive of the early universe predict a time after the transparency of space, when the very fabric of timespace was disrupted or torn, those adjectives are subjective, but timespace was not uniform and at one particular anomaly the first massive halo of dark matter seemed to explode and rapidly expand in size, causing a ripple throughout the universe that saw the manifestation of new dark matter halos. Evidence of the events that precipitated the growth of the halo are hard to predict. It could be spontaneous, which is what we hope for what comes next. Spontaneous is easier to navigate than the scenario that predicts a knowing, sentient hand in the happening that could provide resistance.
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