{"sf1_id":756147,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Time Before the Verses","author":"Eolaiokt","words":737,"posted_at":"2014-09-13T01:02:00.000Z","tags":["background","development","etc"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/756147-time-before-the-verses","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/756147","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=756147\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"\nRecords are sparse, to say the least, of life before the\nverses. Much is unknown of life at the beginning of the verses as well, though\nfar more than Origin. What we do know of The Beginning is:\n \n****\nIn the beginning, we were a proud race. We ruled an\nentire universe, and the entire universe respected us. Our reign lasted many\nmillenia, but our continued control of that universe, which we now refer to as\nOrigin, was fading. \nOrigin itself was almost limitless in size. The ends of\nthe universe were just barely within the grasp of humankind, and even so, they\nbelieved there to be far more past those edges.\nThey were right.\nIn time, we realized that, for whatever reason, Origin\nwas dying. The stars were going out before it was their time. The worlds were\nfreezing, the people dying, and the last of those who believed Origin to be a\nsafe place were becoming doubtful. It was a complete accident that we found the\nverses. \nIt didn't happen soon enough to save the vast majority of\nhuman-kind, and those that did escape into the verses likely couldn't be\nconsidered to be any luckier than those that died, but they lived\nnone-the-less. The first verse they discovered was, as they began to call it\nlater, Center. At that time, they called it Eden, though we've lost\nwhatever significant meaning that name held in our histories. \nCenter was, to the surprise of those survivors who\nclaimed it as their own, already civilized. Their was a city there, one that\nput much of their technology at the time to shame, though there were no people.\nNo one understood, and so they remained cautious of this new place for a great\ndeal of time.\nThe Sulas, as we understand, weren't born until a bit\nmore than a century later. The humans technology was failing, and their memory\ncould not serve to protect that knowledge they did hold of the old places. So,\nthey took the last of those things that epitomized, in their minds, what Origin\nhad represented, and took volunteers. Roughly over 2,000 people were altered,\ngiven better memory, and taking on different forms so that, hopefully, humanity\nwould never forget where they came from.\nUnfortunately, it didn't work out like that. The Sulas,\nafter their enhancement, coincided with humanity peacfully only at first. Their\nwere no issues until the second generation of Sulas was born. They didn't have\ntheir past life as humans to water down their capabilities and belief in\nthemselves, and so, as time went on, and generation after generation of Sulas\nwere born, they began to  see themselves\nnot as equals with their human brethren, but as greater than them.\nHumanity, of course, noticed this as well. They grew\ncautious, and slowly over time, seperated themselves from the Sulas. It\nwouldn't be that easy, however, for in the year 1212 A.T. (After Transfer: the\nname they gave the event in which humanity traveled to Center), the Sulas\nfinally reached for a higher position in the culture.\nThey lost.\nHumanity knew it was coming, and had been preparing for\nit for a long time. When the Sulas began The Great War, the Humans were ready.\nIt took 5 years. 5 long, arduous, years for the Humans to not only beat the\nSulas, but to decimate their entire society. The Sulas dropped from a few\nmillion to barely 200,000, and the humans had barely lost anyone. Their\npopulation sat idly by at a little over 12 million people.\nWith the decimation of the Sulas, a lot of the history of\nhuman-kind was lost. THe snippets that those remaining remembered had no\nconnection with each other. Random points for an important planet in their\nuniverse, some records of an ancient space battle with an alien species called\nthe Tu'un. Nothing that told them what had happened, or what was going\nto happen, or what would never happen again.\nFor the next 5 centuries, the Sulas people became more\nand more distinct from Humanity. After the great wars, their people had been\nenslaved, those that could be found, at least, and their breeding controlled.\n200,000 rose to little over 500,000, and didn't rise much farther. In the 1801\nA.T., the Sulas Rebellion began. The long and bloody conflict that resulted in\nthe freedom of the Sulas people, and the discovery of the Jump Pads.\n \n"}