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They were the ones who ruled the existing solar systems in their dark and foul-smelling civilization, destroyed amidst the chaos.
In the bygone eras of Zaraniun, when they were just crawling babies amidst the birth of their pre-industrial civilization.
Centuries before the fall of the ancient gods, there was a civilization, but it was much older. This civilization worshipped ancient and righteous gods who received rewards for being worshipped.
The ancient scientists of this world were nothing more than priests lost in desolation, thus swearing amidst ancient prayers invoking ancient names that rivalled their beliefs.
Even during what happened, before their own destruction and cataclysm, minutes before the actual collapse amidst the light that appeared amidst a torrent of lava that rose, and when they were isolated underground.
While the skeletal remains of life strewn across the barren surface of a white dwarf planet, decaying bodies—remnants of life from countless past eras in a distant realm of another mystical dimension—were spurred on by prayer and despair among most of the adults.
What happened, in the final moments of life, at that exact moment, was the regret of those who renounced their beliefs and the end of a life, and of their gods, they in this moment of destruction.
What happened was that they were in moments of time when everything changed in the impending catastrophe, moments and remnants of civilization destroyed seconds before their imminent deaths, and lava covered their bodies from the implosion of the solar system and what remained of it...
As all of this changed, death lurked, and in the final seconds before destruction, the shattered layers and ascending flames revealed those rocky remnants, fragments of asteroids and constellations.
It was during their investigations that they found themselves in those following seconds amidst the destruction, when everyone had lost hope, the cosmos extinguishing rocks and comets and asteroids approaching the destroyed orbit, a whirlwind of destruction enveloped in flames and lava lights.
All of this was what remained of frozen seas breaking and rising, evaporating with the lava that rose to the center of the earth moments before, bodies evaporating and self-destructing along with the center of gravity that collapsed, the stars disappearing and with lights in this solar system.
What was becoming something different, when the white dwarf that was once a sun and now the black hole that was sucking in the nearest stars, and sucking in like never before, was a star and rising clouds of poisonous gas.
When they were in these cosmic substances and at that time when the children were engulfed by the flames and their past eras, in a distant realm of another mystical dimension, everything embraced was destroyed.
In the imminent seconds of their deaths and the flames consuming everything around them, spreading along with the destruction when... when seconds before, when everything was about to end...
There were tears on the faces of the children engulfed in flames of lava and destruction when, in an instant, with their imminent death, everything stopped and a deafening, shrill sound of breaking glass was heard...
All those who turned around even surrounded each other with tears in their expressions of pain, and saw themselves enveloped in a rounded barrier by their companions around them...
Above their heads, like flames, long red hair shone with an incandescent light, and their legs were long, strong, and their thighs thick.
Her naked silhouette, with only a ribbon of fabric, a veil covering her arms and slender body—long arms and rounded breasts, her eyes equally red.
With her eyes fixed on the surface and her hands raised, she pointed forward, and the energy capsules were teleported and thus turned around.
Upon seeing the legendary and immense ship called the ship of beginnings, it was, if not the first ship, created with the power of the first goddess among the brother-kings-gods outside the system.
"Thank you," they heard one of the children say as they were being carried away by sentient beings of energy and electricity, and the Red Queen was omniscient.
His powers were cosmic, and his energy was the union of alpha and omega power, and his structure was entirely spiritual and energetic, encompassing both physical and non-physical forms...
Over a million years ago, before the birth of Zaraniun, the legendary mothership called the star ship of beginnings possessed immense military power, 10 times the size of Earth's sun.
Discovering that this was a ship born from the stars and the cosmos, generating its own energy and possessing its own core, it was the dwelling place of gods capable of creating their own dimension and leading to other worlds.
The spacecraft was inhabited by incredibly intelligent beings from the cosmos, without physical bodies, capable of connecting to any form of life and to the collective consciousness of the ship, the energy.
As for the higher forms, they are made of immaterial and psychic energy, exclusively mental powers.
They were the ones who were his envoys and sexless angels procreating through parthenogenesis, and flames that their bodies could crystallize and harden.
They had no form of their own or physical body, but created cybernetic technology through psychic and supernatural energy, and all those who operated the ship were children of the queen, her descendants, and they traveled through the cosmos.
Their forms appeared humanoid and were bluish-white in color, and their hair could alternate between blue in the present and red in combat; their eyes were red when their hair was blue and orange.
While all those beings here, when they were red, had crystals at the extremities of their bodies that connected to their skin and could communicate with other beings, they were not entirely immortal.
In their transformation, when their physical bodies had a time limit, they were not degradable and therefore could connect and restructure themselves as if connecting and recreating their body through host bodies; the old bodies did not deteriorate.
Immediately, when they crystallized and returned to a form of deep blue crystals, their essences alone chose a new host, able to share with another sentient and conscious being and alter another into a hybrid technological form, causing and inducing an evolution.
Even so, it was causing a merging of consciousnesses, and the more it used the host body, the more the first consciousness lost consciousness and was absorbed by the others, thus becoming a complete being.
All this while he thought his time was up, he abandoned that body which in turn crystallized and took on a technological form.
It was a type of mineral crystal with electrical properties that could be used as technology and was part of the spacecraft as a mechanical component.
It was a precursor technology to Zaraniun's before its destruction; they were alive and their technology was conscious since they were once living beings, the technological part switched off and disconnected from the mental aspect.
Those who could distinguish between weapons and non-weapons were the same thing and were aware that they had once been beings of flesh.
First, they were born from flesh, then gradually they lost their physical form, gradually evolving, acquiring technology, and losing their physical form, thus dividing and forming two life forms, sometimes losing and using other hosts...
Among them was the most intelligent chief scientist and daughter of Zariel – the Red Queen, whose name was, well, the studies didn't say much, but as soon as he obtained more data, he would know...
For millennia, the ship from the beginning had the purpose of bringing technology and knowledge, wisdom, and saving those who needed saving; its structure featured black and white crystals and long, pointed wings.
All of this, in which its arrival could be heralded as the harbinger of so much destruction, but still its interior, larger than its exterior, was a world within a ship, formed of energy crystals.