# Time Before the Verses

Author: Eolaiokt
Tags: background, development, etc


Records are sparse, to say the least, of life before the
verses. Much is unknown of life at the beginning of the verses as well, though
far more than Origin. What we do know of The Beginning is:
 
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In the beginning, we were a proud race. We ruled an
entire universe, and the entire universe respected us. Our reign lasted many
millenia, but our continued control of that universe, which we now refer to as
Origin, was fading. 
Origin itself was almost limitless in size. The ends of
the universe were just barely within the grasp of humankind, and even so, they
believed there to be far more past those edges.
They were right.
In time, we realized that, for whatever reason, Origin
was dying. The stars were going out before it was their time. The worlds were
freezing, the people dying, and the last of those who believed Origin to be a
safe place were becoming doubtful. It was a complete accident that we found the
verses. 
It didn't happen soon enough to save the vast majority of
human-kind, and those that did escape into the verses likely couldn't be
considered to be any luckier than those that died, but they lived
none-the-less. The first verse they discovered was, as they began to call it
later, Center. At that time, they called it Eden, though we've lost
whatever significant meaning that name held in our histories. 
Center was, to the surprise of those survivors who
claimed it as their own, already civilized. Their was a city there, one that
put much of their technology at the time to shame, though there were no people.
No one understood, and so they remained cautious of this new place for a great
deal of time.
The Sulas, as we understand, weren't born until a bit
more than a century later. The humans technology was failing, and their memory
could not serve to protect that knowledge they did hold of the old places. So,
they took the last of those things that epitomized, in their minds, what Origin
had represented, and took volunteers. Roughly over 2,000 people were altered,
given better memory, and taking on different forms so that, hopefully, humanity
would never forget where they came from.
Unfortunately, it didn't work out like that. The Sulas,
after their enhancement, coincided with humanity peacfully only at first. Their
were no issues until the second generation of Sulas was born. They didn't have
their past life as humans to water down their capabilities and belief in
themselves, and so, as time went on, and generation after generation of Sulas
were born, they began to  see themselves
not as equals with their human brethren, but as greater than them.
Humanity, of course, noticed this as well. They grew
cautious, and slowly over time, seperated themselves from the Sulas. It
wouldn't be that easy, however, for in the year 1212 A.T. (After Transfer: the
name they gave the event in which humanity traveled to Center), the Sulas
finally reached for a higher position in the culture.
They lost.
Humanity knew it was coming, and had been preparing for
it for a long time. When the Sulas began The Great War, the Humans were ready.
It took 5 years. 5 long, arduous, years for the Humans to not only beat the
Sulas, but to decimate their entire society. The Sulas dropped from a few
million to barely 200,000, and the humans had barely lost anyone. Their
population sat idly by at a little over 12 million people.
With the decimation of the Sulas, a lot of the history of
human-kind was lost. THe snippets that those remaining remembered had no
connection with each other. Random points for an important planet in their
universe, some records of an ancient space battle with an alien species called
the Tu'un. Nothing that told them what had happened, or what was going
to happen, or what would never happen again.
For the next 5 centuries, the Sulas people became more
and more distinct from Humanity. After the great wars, their people had been
enslaved, those that could be found, at least, and their breeding controlled.
200,000 rose to little over 500,000, and didn't rise much farther. In the 1801
A.T., the Sulas Rebellion began. The long and bloody conflict that resulted in
the freedom of the Sulas people, and the discovery of the Jump Pads.
 

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