There will be members of the Ascendant who will be capable of accessing Quinspace, the Special Realm or veil existence, from A-space, but their ability to access that energy will not grant the ability to perceive Quinspace as an inhabitant of that space does. Only a relatively small number of the Ascendant will have this ability; this is true for many of the sentient populations that existed before the Ascendant.
Neu-Brosme 77 will be capable of accessing the Special Realm, and when she stood atop Top in front of the timespace anomaly, she felt a sensation that will not exist in the distant future, when the magic of the Quinspace will be largely dormant. A being capable of interacting with Quinspace has a duplicate set of senses that allows for this interaction, so in the far future when the Quinspace is less active, those senses will not be engaged. When she arrived in the past, Neu-Brosme experienced a flooding of her senses that was intense, but not unpleasant, and it inundated her body in a way that a small percentage of the Ascendant also experienced, but as the One in Command, duly elected by the members of the Ascendant, she felt that she was on top of the world. She ran to the Outshell Elevator and demanded to be allowed out to the shell surface so that she could make her feelings a reality; she would stand on top of her world. The Outshell Guard, Paul-Iuar 77, looked skeptically at the commander who was in an ecstasy that made the dark brown fur of her body stand on end, adding to the chaos of her being.
“I was not made aware of any opening of the Outshell,” Paul-Iuar said firmly as she stood before the elevator, “and I believe it’s in our best interests not to expose our environment to the contaminants of this past until we know more about it. Be wise Commander, do not make me invoke my check of your power. The 77 would prefer not to be distracted while we navigate this most important mission.”
“You are not so selfish that you would disturb the 77,” Neu-Brosme said confidently. There are 76 Ascendant who are elected to the most important positions in society, the One in Command being the 77th, and they can come together to override an order of the One in Command. But they were all busy at their posts, working to ensure that the Ascendant would achieve their goal of godhood.
“Besides,” Neu-Brosme continued, “they will all laugh at you. They would say what I would say, that the Commander has earned her right to celebrate in the early universe. I won’t try and pry your attentions away from your duties, but if you could, you would want to rejoice at our accomplishment as well. We have made a successful jump from our present to the distant past! This is unprecedented, and the Commander will not be denied. I can operate the latch and secure the containment field myself.”
Paul-Iuar knew that she was right. The other 77 would think the commander was being brazen and showing off, but it was ultimately harmless; their technology would ensure that passage through the Outshell would not allow contaminants inside, but Paul-Iuar was cautious about access to the Outshell because it was her job, and anything could go wrong that could endanger everyone inside.
As Top passed through the multicolor timespace anomaly, Neu-Brosme smiled and lifted her arms into early space. The containment field around her effectively functioned as a spacesuit, but it was invisible and she appeared to exist in space with no aid. On the other side of the anomaly, everything was colorful, like the A-space they had left was splotched with bright and pastel colors. The planet Top, the Outshell of which was black in A-space, appeared to be stark white, and it reflected the colors of nearby Quinspace as a ripple, so the white surface had a rolling band of color that was constantly moving.
Within the Quinspace, the nature of things is similar to the nature of A-space in regards to perception and interaction with reality, but as beings of A-space, you and I might characterize the Quinspace as cartoonish, surreal, dreamlike. This characterization lends itself to the reality that many beings of A-space who have had or will have experiences with the Quinspace discount them as dreams or fantasies. Our bodies are not so vulnerable in Quinspace, it has something to do with the strong force being more rubbery – which coincidentally accounts for the exotic palette of the Quinspace as particles are more prone to swipe past one another and cause bursts of color as they bounce back to their original attachments.
After the planet Top entered the Quinspace, Neu-Brosme marveled at the new, auburn form of her body, and the planet was confronted by the very being for which the Quinspace is named, the Quintessence, that appeared before them as their greatest collective nightmare.
When Neu-Brosme tore her wonder away from the sight of her own body, she almost jumped out of her fur, out of her containment field. She was startled by the terrifying vision of a Dru-Earthling, much larger than the planet Top that was approximately fifty thousand miles across. The Dru-Earthling caused panic on Top among the 77 who had been glued to the monitors that showed the exterior environment. When the vision of the gigantic Dru-Earthling came into view, Paul-Iuar cursed her Commander; of course something like that would happen when she had allowed the Commander to do something stupid.
A Dru-Earthling will be the result of Earthling and Druinte intermingling following the Great Pilgrimage of Social Druintes to Earth. The race will be largely cast out from Earthling societies, and they will become one of the greatest civilizations to have ever lived, outlived only by the Ascendant, and they will be mortal enemies of the Ascendant who they will come to view as inferior because of their gender. They will wage a bloody war with their rivals, though, because of the advanced intellect of both the Ascendant and the Dru-Earthlings, they will never battle each other directly. The Ascendant will be indirectly responsible for the demise of the planet Eel, because the Dru-Earthlings will use the Red Mountains of Eel for intelligence, and the Dru-Earthlings will counter with the indirect destruction of the Ointite who will play unknowing assassins for the Ascendant. The Dru-Earthlings will successfully lobby the Interstellar Panel to institute a death penalty for genocide and when they rule that the leader of the Ointite who will call for the destruction of Eel to be put to death, the Ointite will go to war with all Interstellar Panel civilizations, that will include the Ascendant. The Ointite will refuse to surrender and every member of their race who will survive the devastating strike on their home world, will be killed when the Central Supremacy, that is the religious leader of the race, executes the kill switch that no Ointite realizes is built into the hardware implanted into every Ointite at birth.
The Ascendant will eventually win their war with the Dru-Earthlings when their subtle influence campaign will finally come to fruition. The Dru-Earthlings will believe themselves to be the pinnacle of the evolution of the sentient beings within the universe, and this will propel much of their innovation; the need to back up the belief with a clear distinction from other civilizations. But the Ascendant will become rivals when their planet Top is discovered and their mere existence, on a self sustaining spacecraft no less, will make the Dru-Earthlings question their own greatness. The Ascendant will sense that insecurity and though neither civilization will ever explicitly acknowledge their rivalry, it will be stoked by subtle action that will ultimately undermined the universal perception of the Dru-Earthlings relative to the Ascendant. At the point in the future when the Dru-Earthlings will successfully travel to a parallel reality for the first time, the Ascendant will be there to congratulate them at a ceremony held at the Interstellar Panel Discovery Conference where they will proudly display their accomplishment and tout it as the first successful mission of its kind. But also at this Conference, the Ascendant will reveal for the first time to the universe that they lived so long undetected because of the technology of their ship that regularly travels to other realities. It will crush the Dru-Earthlings and ultimately they will destroy themselves; pushing to outpace the brilliance of the Ascendant will lead to the risky research that will ultimately destroy their homeworld. No member of the Dru-Earthlings will survive.
The giant Dru-Earthling with the retractable long nails at each of eris five fingers, with all of the physical characteristics of a naked human with both male and female parts, hoovered before the planet Top, as real as Neu-Brosme. And e spoke with a booming voice that could be heard in the minds of every member of the Ascendant.
“You do not belong here, do you? You are from this, but not. You do belong here, but not now. You cannot be here. Time and Space noticed you, that does not happen. They gathered me together with my twin, and our half siblings who did not stop you but should have, and our other half sibling who we did not know existed, and we, along with everything that we have created, heard Time and Space speak. They said that you, thing, are not right and must be repelled, you must be obliterated.”
Neu-Brosme suddenly understood, that the vision was of a monstrous Dru-Earthling, but they were encountering something more abstract.
“Can you hear me?” Neu-Brosme shouted. She had gathered her bearings and she was fully in control of the abilities that she was granted in the Quinspace. She made her body grow and she stepped off of the planet Top to float and confront the being. “We will return to our proper time and space, but you must be able to help us before we leave. We came to save the universe, something will soon happen that will speed things up…”
The Dru-Earthling swiped the long nails of one hand through the multicolor space and startled Neu-Brosme who braced for the blow, but the hand of the Dru-Earthling went right through her.
“Don’t you see?” the Dru-Earthling said, “It has already happened. You are already here. Time and Space have decided, I am here to erase you.”
The Dru-Earthling disappeared. Neu-Brosme returned to regular size and went back inside the planet Top where she called a meeting of the 77.
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