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[quote][b]Remus (Jul 14, 2003 12:51 p.m.):[/b] [b]BACKSTORY[/b] [i]Irredeemable[/i] Galactic society, such as it had existed, was no more. The Commonwealth had been wiped from the stars completely, and the terrans had long before been hunted into extinction by the draconans. Most of the remaining nations had been crippled by Jaelis' retaliatory attacks. And Jaelis looked over the galaxy, her domain, and pronounced it irredeemable. She decided that the universe had failed to guide its own course properly, and needed help. But it was too late for help. And so Jaelis gathered the remaining denizens of the galaxy to her, and decreed that a machine would be built to amplify her powers. The finest minds in the galaxy worked for decades, but this did not bother Jaelis any longer; she neither aged nor ate nor breathed any longer. When finally the machine was constructed, she used it to expand her perception of reality, studying the nature and flow of space/time. And when she was ready, Jaelis summoned all of her energy, amplified by the machine, and pushed her way through the walls of reality, emerging from the timestream into the nullspace beyond. And she followed the stream back though every second was exhausting, every minute agonizing. When she maintain her detatchment from realspace no longer, Jaelis crashed back into the timestream, spent to the point of hovering on the brink of death. She drank in the light of suns, and her strenght returned, but she knew that she had failed. Her target had been the beginning, and she had not even passed the middle. As she recovered, she sought to understand why she had failed, and how she could succeed. At length, she came to an indisputable conclusion: her composite consciousness was half dead weight. The powers she weilded were not meant for her. They had belonged to the Xan entity, the entity which was now inextricably bound to the Jaelis entity. [i]Fate[/i] Jaelis surveyed her surrounding reality, looking for clues to its time period. She was dismayed to learn that she had traveled back a mere four centuries. Traveling back in hops, be they four centuries or four millennia, would kill her long before she reached the beginning. She could already feel how much the last jump had cost her. Even if she some day regained all of her energy -- and she could feel that that alone would take another half-century, at least -- the damage it caused her was permanent. Despair was about to settle over her when she finally realized where she had landed. Her senses took in the positions of the stars and planets, and she knew the exact date and time. And she knew that she was fated to succeed. She had arrived on the day Xan died. [i]A Subtle Change[/i] Wasting no more time, Jaelis crossed thousands of light years as she skimmed over the surface of realspace. On Dorn, the draconans were just landing. She watched little Xan and little Jaelis run for the village. She saw Xan throw open his door. And she saw Jaelis leap. She knew what had to happen. She introduced a very subtle change into the timestream's course. She gave Jaelis a little psionic shove. The girl's leap was accelerated and elongated, and she crashed into little Xan, and caught the bolt in her chest. And the disembodied entity which called itself by the same name as the dying girl smiled the smile of one who knows they have done another a great favor. Little Xan cried for a short while, but a draconan soldier soon led him to the holding area where the other children were standing around looking wooden. Then the children were taken up to the orbiting Commonwealth starship, and sealed within the hold. Xan cried more. But Jaelis, taking pity on the little boy who had once been both her best friend and her self, spoke soothing words into his mind, calming him. And the boy, who believed he had only imagined the voice, was nonetheless calmed.[/quote]
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