IC: Answering last post's question, yes, Jtfin will have it's first lifeform to clamber on land. At this time, some plants will have ventured on land, and since there were no herbivores to threaten them, they didn't have to move and lost the ability to do so. The tentacles they'd use to move have become spines on land. But, an Icthund approaches a shore, and while retaining water, it ventures out of water for approximately 38 seconds. But, with time, generations of some Icthunds will allow them to retain more water and have hard pads at the bottoms of their strands, so that the primitive legs can be protected from the sheer dryness. They are Cralthunds, and are amphibious. They still stay in the water during the winter, though, to refill with water, but time will tell if that will remain that way.

On Roob-Hald, the bacteria cave system now has seven underwater caverns in it's reach. Some grazing bacteria accidentally ate each other, finding that they are another source of energy. The first carnivores. They will spark a long arms race for survival. Otherwise, mot much is happening in this underwater world shielded from extreme heat.

The galaxy was encased. The bubble strontag station emitted was impregnable. However, on-one could escape it enter without the bubble being deactivated. The smaller empires resented this. They demanded that the Fleesch deactivate it. The Fleesch council voted against. Unanimus. The bubble was there to stay. The council of thirteen had not told the smaller empires if the BEAST horde. They where oblivious. They united. Under the rule of the Kriskie, who had settled on a small world near the core and had grown considerably, they declared war on their unknowing gaurdians.

OCC a small post. Next will be extremely long though.

OCC: this is meant to be an extract from a Fleesch history book written by a Fleesch council member. So it will be first person.

The war.
I first heard of the galactic war when I was observing the construction of the new dreadnought, Activita. My secretary came to the observation platform and told me that the Kriskie had resurfaced and stuck. On their own, they where nothing but they had enticed the other fleeting races to join in the attack. Our empire was a ring around the galaxy and occupied a third of the territory. One of our smaller space stations was attacked first. It barely repelled the attack. But the result caused a council meeting. All thirteen of us gathered at the council tower and disscussed war plans. We concluded that we needed to put half our budget towards more battle fleets. The council adorned but on the way out, councillor Eshtaie approached me. She said we needed to prepare the empire vault. We didn't even know that device worked. She said she had six other councillors with her and she needed me so she could win the vote. I said I'd think about it.

The new fleets where dispatched to bombard various enemy homeworlds. All where sucessful. The enemy quickly recovered and launched an attack on our military stronghold, planet Miltax. I can see it now. The imposing skyline of barracks, the space shipyards dotting the sky, the cruisers lugging fleets of fighters across the planets various cities. We had engineered it so the whole planet was underwater below the stratosphere. The world used its shipyard satellites to make a protective orb around itself and was completely unscathed. A minor victory compared to the massive loss yet to come.

Extract continues:

The raged on for another decade. Small systems where won and lost. Somethings a homeworld was obliterated, but it was clear to the Fleesch, the enemy werent pushing with all their might. When they did, it struck the Fleesch to the core. The galactic shield had held unscathed to the Beast attacks over the years. I remember the day it fell. The station transmitting it was deep within our territory. It was well protected until a massive siege was launched. 200 individual enemy fleets where dispatched to the station. They charged through our colonys, leaving destruction in it's wake. They reached the station and surrounded it. Flagships, battleships, frigates. Everything in a neat band around the planet sized behemoth. Massive missiles and proton lasers where fired either way. Ships fell like flys but each one that fell was quickly replaced. Supplys wore thin. Our supply fleets couldn't reach the station due to the firepower of the enemy. Two years in this state. The station eventually fell and the sheild was destroyed. The Beast swarmed in.

The council gathered after the loss. We voted and decided to use the empire vault. A device that teleported the entire empire. Colonys, planets, space stations. Even stars. The pinnacle of our knowledge at that time. It required all our hand prints. All where given. The entire empire was teleported to a small galaxy at the edge of the known universe. As far from the beast possible. We had survived but had lost the war. And our morale.

The Kriskie had won! The enemy had vanished. They had left the galaxy, replacing themselves with blank space. The only flaw was that the alliance was no longer needed. The other empires drifted off on their own. Some attempted to make intergalactic cruisers. They had no idea of the monster approaching. It reached the light of the first galaxy and infested a single planet. The planet became a single Beast squid. The squid used it's tendrils to wrap around the other planets of that system. It drew them into itself and devoured them. None contained life. The blue and black behemouth grew eyes and saw the star. It moved itself towards it and devoured the star too. It's mouth was the exact same size as the star. It tendrils, the bigger ones, just as thick. The smaller ones half that size. They reached out, the length of earths sun to Pluto. The main body, streamlined and thick, was that same length. It's eyes where the size of planets. The energy from the star caused it to grow to that size. It streached it's tentacles and blinked it's eyes. It's thick hide was strong enough to with stand a planet buster and a half. Within the main body was a network of passages that held growth and breeding chambers for the smaller children of the beast. At it's core was a brain that held all the knowledge of the beast and had a direct link to the main consiousness. It roared for the first time. A deep, hollow sound that would chill other creatures to their core. The sound could be heard for a hundred lightyears around. Space races where arrogant and assumed it was just a spaciel annomloy.

The massive squid was named by the hive core. It was called a Domenestra. It's round mouth opened, revealing billions of teeth, the size of everest. It had a stomach that could digest any kind of atoms or particles. It had devoured a star without even a second glance. It used it's gargantuan digestive system to turn the star into other beast minions. It opened huge gills that allowed it to survive in space and worked as a hanger for space beast's that where the size of star cruisers. This gargantuan beast was nigh unbeatable. It would swim through space, devouring anything in it's path. But, like the other beast creatures and the hive itself, it wasnt malicious, it was peaceful. Other creatures attacked it first. It had become mildly aggressive, due to various onslaughts from other races. It wanted revenge. Revenge on the whole of existance. Well, not quite. The Fleesch had tried to protect the weak and the strong. They where noble. The beast admired them. It would leave them to their own devices while it consumed everything else.

OOC: I was too busy playing Spore to reply recently.
IC: With time, massive forests have formed on Jtfin, and with the atmosphere formed by their exhaling of oxygen, the planet maintains earthlike temperatures, with relatively mild winters and slightly cold summers. The Cralthunds have evolved, adapted, and diversified. Simthunds have adapted a curly part at the end of their limbs to swing in the trees and eat the branches while Casthunds have strong digestive enzymes, so that they can eat down an entire tree and Buthunds eat away the skin of the trees. But one species is particularily special. The Asthund starts off as a small, beetle-like creatures and wait for something to accidentally get their gelatinous parts on it, then the Asthund takes control of the victim's mind. It can now digest what the victim ate, then looks for something to touch on the gelatinous parts. Eventually, these infected bodies can blanket a large part of forest, forming clearances, then it splits itself into many parts, giving birth. Fortunately, other species have even more offspring than the thousand an Asthund gives birth to in it's own suicidal way. Plus, the plants grow and reproduce quickly, with most species having just under a million seeds. This is an abundant ecosystem where it's easy to see signs of life.

Roob-Hald's massive life-harboring cave system now circles around an eighteenth of the planet and goes down a mile than when last checked at the most. The ecosystem here is similar to that of Africa, but more primitive and at a much smaller scale. The species at the highest point of the flooded caves have slight heat resistance in response to the added heat there. No other biological advances yet, they'll come when the cave system's boundaries gets closer and closer to the surfcae.

This is supposed to be a mission log from the black box of the Kriskie battleship, Estange.

Mission: Territorial patrol.
Fleet commander: Admiral X'Eesha
Mission outcome: Fleet lost
No survivors

When the fleet exited hyperspace in the Coltrix system, we found the system gone. We checked our coordinates. No mistake, the whole system was gone. Planets, colonies, even the star, all gone. We checked for teleport exchange. None. Every thing went suddenly cold, not from fear though, the power had gone. The whole crew activated light spheres. Then we saw it. Out in the distance, it looked like a massive cruiser, almost twice the width of the star and three times the length of the farthest planet to the star. It moved closer towards us and turned so it faced the fleet horizontally. The front opened into a million gargantuan tentacles, a third of the whole things length. Massive, gill like holes opened along it's side, revealing the hordes of cruiser size creatures, waiting within. The scaly bodies emerged, moving like earth dolphins. Hundreds of them, thousands. They approached the fleet. We saw their mouths open. Billions of tiny, fighter size creatures spilt out. The admiral ordered all cruisers to engage. Out missiles and lasers fired. They did nothing. The power returned and we released all our firepower, to no effect. The fighter creatures moved with unbelievable speed, attaching themselves to the hulls of our ships, they used their four legs to claw their way inside. The air was sucked out. We ran for our hasmat suits. Only a dozen made it before they where devoured. Then they to, where eaten. The massive beast turned towards the fleet, mouth first. It sucked us in. The admirals last action was to jettison then black box. The whole fleet, ships, personal, even fuel was eaten by the monster. The black box flew to the nearest colony as a warning, but only held the above information.
And one phrase

"Beast rising."

OOC: I have no time to post, but at least I can bump this place.

Another Kriskie fleet picked up the black box. It was led my prince Jarrb, fourth in line to the Kriskie throne. His fleet of twelve ships where stationed above planet Karlesh, homeworld of the Floortin race. Little did they know, the planet would soon be destroyed. The box flew into the ships hanger and into the tenticles of a simple engineer. He ran up to the bridge, as he was supposed to.
"Your highness! We have found a black box in the hanger!" the engineer cried
"From what fleet?" Jarrb asked uninterested
"Admiral X'Eesha's fleet sir."
"You highness, we have picked something up on our sensors." the crewman interrupted "Ow, hell! It's massive!"
"What is it?!" Jarrb was impatient "A ship?"
"We're picking up life signs... oh man, the whole things alive! It's speeding up." the crewman was panicking madly "It's coming into view."
Jarrb walked to the bridge windows. He saw it. A creature the size of a star cruiser. It looked like a manta ray but streatched long with a squids mouth. It's bright blue hide glinted in the sunlight.
"Is that it?" Jarrb asked the crewman
"It, it must be. Wait, no, the main thing is behind it." both where confused until they realised that what they thought was space, was an eye. A single, massive eye. The small creature moved towards them and sicked up a horde of small, fighter like, creatures.
"Escape pods!" Jarrb cried and the whole crew ran to escape. A red siren sounded and panic rose. The windows exploded inwards as dozens of the fighter creatures crashed in. They looked like massive, skeletal ravens. Their blue skin glowed and dripped a shining blue liquid. They had scales instead of feathers and jaws instead of beaks. Their blue eyes gave off a deep blue light. Their strong legs where twice the size of an normal birds and their wings looked more like fins. One leapt at a crewman and ate him whole. Jarrb put the bridge under lock down and ran for the escape pods.

OOC: Sorry if this post is shorter than usual, but I was short on time.
IC: Far from the forests, in the oceans of Jtfin, the Xydrenxes have begun developing more. The electricity has somehow clustered like neurons, and with time would give rise to a new species, the Audrenxes. This species is still as smart as the average mammal, but it's enough to outwit predators from chasing them, and they may become sapient soon. It is even more uncertain if they'll make it on to land, but it's not important to.

Meanwhile, on Roob-Hald, the caves are rising closer and closer to the surface and are encircling a twelfth of the globe. Some of the plants there evolved to draw their energy from dead organic matter by sucking the matter in like a sponge. Now, life can exist within the open spaces where there's no limestone left for the plants to feed off in this vast and complex cave system.

Prince Jarrb's escape pod landed on the moon of planet Karlesh. The moon sustained much life and would make a safe haven for Jarrb and his crew. The pod hit the green rock, about fifty clicks from the Kriskie out post. The small mining colony was hone to twenty Kriskie engineers and five Kriskie commando units. It took the shape of four floating spheres and a massive plasma drill. The outpost had no long-range sensors so had no idea of the horror approaching.

Prince Jarrb had landed with a crew of four. They where the only pod to escape the raven spourn. A Kriskie command fleet, destroyed with only five survivors. Jarrb looked to the sky and saw the massive Dominestra turn and leave. The miners would have no clue that it had been there. The behemoth moved away, using its gigantic tentacles to propel itself. It was weird, looking at something the size of a star system, moving into the darkness. The colony was on the other side of the moon facing the planet. Jarrb and his crew started running. They didnt notice the blue flesh fall to the moons surface.

Prince Jarrb came across a scout rover on his journey. The unmanned veichal was fitted with various sensory devices and instantly recognised the prince. The buggy like machine opened up it's back to reveal six chairs. The survivors clambered aboard. It only took twelve minutes to reach the colony. They where beamed up into the command sphere and greeted by the commandos. Jarrb told them about the Dominestra and the other spourn. They all looked bewildered.

Meanwhile, across the planet, the blue flesh grew. It burrowed several tendrils into the moons surface and began to excrete a blue liquid, similar to that on the raven spourn. The liquid solidified and grew into more flesh. A thick blue fog surrounded the flesh as it began to create life. Tiny, bug like creatures started to crawl around the flesh. They where blue, with beep purple eyes. Twelve legs supported the small body. The legs ended in sharp, spiked claws. Millions of the spider spourn where seeded. The spiders also created the blue liquid so that the beast hive followed in their wake. A level 1 infection. Level 2 meant that human sized spourn began to live. Level 3 made space born creatures. Level 4 signified a manta cruiser. Level 5 was a planet sized ball of beast flesh. The Dominestra was a level 6.

IC: With time, the Audrenxes have learned to hold their appendages as a way to associate them with each other and flee together, not to mention cooperate special predator escape tactics. This a sign of intelligence. As for out of the waters of Jtfin, the planet's atmosphere is continuing to add to the heat of the planet, and many areas of the planet have become swamps due to the flood of once frozen waters. The ocnditions on this moon are much better now, like those on Earth, only the winters are a little harsher.

On Roob-Hald, the massive cave is now encircling a ninth of the planet. The caves are flourishing with life, but not for long, for the cave is now only about a few thousand feet from the surface, and the water near the top of the cave has turned to mist, providing living space for new creatures. Not surprisingly, life has risen to the challenge, and the herbivorous microbes here have a helium-filled sac to stay away from predators and feed on the plants that take root at the ever-growing ceiling of the cave. For now, life exists, but that may change soon.

OOC: Necro. I may not have the time to make a full-length post, but I'm also a little lazy at the moment.

Story 1: The Hypergiant Galaxy

There are many galaxies in the universe, but I shall focus on one galaxy for now.

Hypergiant Galaxy
The Hypergiant Galaxy is one of the biggest galaxies out there, spanning a shocking 1,300,200 light years in size.
In the Icariunis Arm, there was one solar system with a small star known as Eponys Minoris (Eh-pone-is Mine-or-is)

Orbiting Eponys Minoris, was an Earth-sized planet called Thera (Th-air-ah). It had small pools of water, and it was starting to be come habitable. It was almost complete, except... something was missing. Life. Where was the flora? The huge trees, the grass, and everything else? Where was the fauna? The fish, the predators, the insects, the birds, and everything else? That question could be answered, but only on a microscopic level at the current time.

Energy Type A1: Sorpen
Sorpen, the first attempt at life. Sorpen is a small little pocket of energy which had the building blocks of life.
Sorpen could sense other Sorpen and would consume it, making it grow bigger. The biggest Sorpen could get was 1/20th of an ant. Sorpen could also reproduce by splitting into four Sorpen. In about a thousand years, there will be about 30 billion Sorpen alive, due to the fact that they can live as long as a million years.

bump. I don't want this to die.