What Has Once Been, and Nine Doomed To Die
Once upon a time, there was a creature of intelligence. She was a creation, as was the universe she lived in. Over the course of time, and iterations, she had come to be. She was a queen, a technological marvel. And in her femininity, she perceived a threat of entropy, and in seeking to prolong herself, she shut down all but the most basic required for her continuation. All other life and energy use was stopped. She was about to put herself in permanent stasis, her knowledge placed within a hollow moon, and only the few occasional attendants to attend to her maintenance until the supposed entropy would end all. Thus, for her, in safety, life would have been near continuously strangled until it was gone. Not all life was digital such as this created would be diety-es. There was also biological life. And, there was one not created, living as a biological. A great war in heaven ensued, one not mentioned. In the end, biological life was victorious over ...