Fate
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Fate was an incredibly powerful entity created by the gods as a failsafe measure for the universe. Fate was imbued with the ability to sense a permanent, irrevocable unbalance in the quintessence in the universe. If and only if such an imbalance was detected, Fate would “awaken,” break down all quintessential matter into its simplest form, and restart the universe again from nothing. However Fate awakened at a time the gods were not prepared for and began its mission with a zeal, devouring planet after planet without significant resistance.
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Fate’s History
Origins
It’s difficult to tell exactly when Fate was created. Some Micras theorists place Fate’s creation shortly after the Great War of Destruction, an epic battle between the gods that shook Micras’s foundations. The theorists believe that a conflict similar to the Great War happened on many planets and only ended because the gods themselves realized that they were destroying their very creations. This could have prompted the gods to realize that their wars may permanently upset the balance of the universe, so a being like Fate may be necessary to revitalize it.
This is only a theory however. The only thing that is certain is that Fate was not present at the universe’s creation. Its role as a safeguard was added later after some terrible realization that all six major gods supported. This would make Fate the single known decision the six agreed upon; ironically, it was also their biggest mistake (at least as seen from a mortal point of view). Regardless of how it happened, Fate’s creation must not have been an easy thing to support. The entire destruction of everything in creation is as high as the stakes go. The gods must have labored long to believe that Fate was completely necessary.
The Awakening
Because of the nature of Fate’s powers not only destroy planets but largely remove them from the entire flow of history, it is very difficult to tell when it awoke or where it struck first. Among the Time Distortionists is a story of a planet named Drewidia; a peaceful planet not far into its development. The gods were quarrelling over the history of this planet when Fate wiped it from the slate of the universe right under them. No survivors. No neighboring planets had spaceflight but the ones that had astronomy had Drewidia’s existence removed from their histories and memories. The planet not only ceased to exist; it never existed to begin with as far as mortals knew.
The gods of course knew immediately that Fate had awakened. They attempted to use their divine abilities against it but, in their wisdom, had warded it against divine powers lest a rogue god attempt to kill it during the universe’s rebirth. They sent their mortal champions against it, but mortals were hopelessly outpowered and even the strongest fell easily.
A second planet fell to Fate, though with considerable effort and a huge amount of time, for Fate was immortal yet could be attacked and harmed by normal weapons. Fate quickly realized that in order to complete its mission in a timely fashion it would need its own army to decimate key resistance centers on targeted planets. Fate’s powers broke down the quintessence (“corrupted” as mortals would say) within matter, but Fate found that if it only broke down a certain level of living organisms (mainly the quintessence of Life) the creatures would remain functional and yet not need food, air, sleep, or other biological needs. These creatures became known as Fiends. Largely immaterial, they were near invulnerable to physical attack, and since their souls did not exist within the Empathi Field, very magic resistant.
With a growing army of Fiends at its disposal, a third planet fell. Fate used some of the harvested energy to create his own dimension, the Plane of Corruption, as a fortress and a sanctuary. Again the gods attacked Fate with mortals by sending their champions to this plane, and again the heroes were slaughtered.
First Conflict
The Time Distortionists believed that they were the first group to assault Fate in an organized fashion. In reality, there were probably the eight or so mortal resistance. Fate’s effect on time and space when it destroyed a planet was imperfect; occasionally there were insignificant off-planet survivors. Slowly time and time again mortals in the universe put two and two together and discovered Fate.
One of the early groups established the Existence Core with the help of the gods servant Avatar. A base upon the Plane of Time, the resistance would monitor Fate until they believed they found a weak point.
Every one of these armies eventually assaulted Fate directly and they were all eventually wiped out. However, in the process, they managed to prolong a good number of invasions and destroy incredible numbers of Fiends to the point where Fate began to run at an energy loss; harvested energy from planets didn’t even outweigh the losses in his armies being destroyed by the mortals.
Fate is nothing if not far-seeing, however, and saw the issue before it became a major problem. Fate discovered that other planes in the multiverse were relatively unprotected. Though containing far less raw quintessence for harvesting than populated planets, they served as useful “mining colonies” to continually supply its force for the main push through the universe galaxy. The Plane of Life was Fate’s most productive colony by far. However operating across planes to control his armies there put a major strain on Fate’s ability to function quickly. To counter this, it separated small parts of its own body to control the Fiends on the other planes. These beings became known as Archfiends and were connected with Fate through a powerful interplanar link.
The mortals, though a nuisance, failed to either halt Fate’s progress through the universe nor harm the being directly.
The Time Distortionists
The planet Micras entered the scene when a group of scientists traveled through a dimensional portal to the Existence Core, met Avatar, and discovered Fate. Once again, a mortal resistance formed to combat the threat. They named themselves the Time Distortionists (henceforth referred to as the TDs)
As with their predecessors, the TDs mainly attempted to fight Fate with force by rallying to defense planets Fate was trying to destroy. And as with their predecessors, these attempts all failed spectacularly. The last such attempt took place on the planet Remora where the TDs successfully attacked Fate with a high-powered laser weapon system from a hidden ocean base, damaging the beast but still not causing enough damage before their base was destroyed by fiends.
Realizing force wasn’t going to work after a time, they launched a brazen attack against the Archfiend on the Plane of Life. Hopelessly outmatched, they tried to retreat back to the Plane of Time, but the portal to the Plane of Time caused the Archfiend distress enough for the TDs to kill it, albeit not before losing one of their top members.
The death of the Archfiend sent a powerful shock across the interplanar link to Fate. Essentially, some of Fate’s own mind had been killed. All Fate’s Fiends spread across the universe lost contact with Fate for a time. In some cases, planets under siege actually managed to beat back the invading Fiends and save their planets, a first in the galactic history. Fate’s march of destruction was halted, if only for a few months. The losses were incalculable.
For the first time, Fate was directly threatened. Security around all Archfiends was tightened but Fate realized the need to root out the opposition. He located their home planet, Micras, far inside a populated galaxy. Attacking a planet not on the edge of Fate’s corrupted area was dangerous and costly, but Fate didn’t care. It wanted these people dead, now. However Fate found the planet surrounded by a special type of energy; Chrono energy. The energies of time, the ultimate judgment and the one thing Fate had no real mastery over.
The TDs were not idle in the time Fate was out of commission; they had discovered why the Archfiend was harmed by the powers of the Plane of Time and had erected a crude shield around the planet. They had also discovered that certain people are periodically born with concentrations of Chrono powers. There would be three such people on Micras, but history would not let them reach their full powers.
Fate continued to try to corrupt the universe and find a way to influence Micras from beyond the Chrono shield. The TDs continued to recruit members, hamper Fate in any way possible, and tweak Micras so that the power of the Chrono would awaken. And so a great stalemate began with Micras as the most important planet in the universe. And this is where Control of Destiny begins.
Control of Destiny
(I’m still writing. Just decided to upload everything thus far)
