Gaian Ascendancy
21-06-2005, 21:25
*ACHOO!!*
Khan McKenna looked over.. "Goodness ilKhan, you're not getting sick again are we?"
Aleaic just sniffs it up. "Nay, I think someone was talking about me somewhere." The Snow Eagle Khan shrugs. "If that's all it is."
Another long sunset with the crest of Ascendant Galaxy framing, though it was a different angle than it was when they first arrived five years ago. So many things had changed in such a short time. The Gaians had kept to themselves utterly, reached accords with their now vast numbers of Jedi to protect their Archonis Supercluster only, and not beyond, to protect the trillions of souls among the 107,367 various major races and civilizarions, and untold millions upon millions more individual races, of all technological levels and even multi-dimensional status.
The Gaians never had it so good, even back at home in comparison. With the formal Guardianship Treaty that gave the Gaians central control of the protection of the entire Supercluster, and the five hundred plus galaxies within, as well as the now seventeen dimensional pockets, where new systems were being actively created and terraformed, groomed into vast dimensional fortresses, this all was made to protect the 1,957 major shipping lanes and thousands of countless JumpChulip SuperStations among thousands of major central shipping center Systems.
While the Gaians only counted their own population among official records, it was very very hard to ignore the feedback from all the commerce, and the infinite amounts of resources and consumables, even the countless variaties of delecacies and such that made it's way into the now uber-advanced Republic Core Worlds.
There were several major changes since the Removal Event as well. First was the full activation of the Monolith Archives. The Gaians had expanded the concept of creating free floating vast archives for storing 'all' knowledge, from one major one, to ten all across Ascendancy Sphere space. These Archives, only the size of a large Cruiser at present, would one day be larger than many moons in size. The flexible and literal growing nature of the Archives would mean as new sections of ultra black holo-memory blocks, some the size of a stadium, were added, the constant upload of information of ALL kinds would mean the Archive would never seem to stop growing in both aspects.
Then there was the Knighthood of the Ascendancy Guardianship. To infuse great pride in everything the Supercluster enjoyed, Lord Aleaic himself declared every Gaian, and every proven allied citizen soul, as Knights of the Ascendancy Sphere. They then were provided with special training in using a new kind of power armor.
A single Hikrai Key Ring was distributed to every soul, first the warriors, and then in very large numbers, every proven soul, such that they only need contribute to the Guardianship in 'any' decent way. Even kinseths in High School Centers and training academies were among this. The Ring (no, not 'that' one..) allowed a recipient to summon a suit of literal speak, jeweled power armor. The set was of a jeweled type of armor surface, made of 'actual' jeweled composition. (Sapphire, Ruby, Topaz, Amythest, Diamond, Tiger Eye, Opal... ect ect..) The robes and armor took the form of the users favorite colors, with a cloak and robes meshed into the suit, with colors that matched the armor very well. (which meant 'any' color scheme was possible..
...'any'....)
The suit came with a weapon of choice, (..again any kind wanted, hard weapon or energy base, usually swords of course..) that was made up of the same material, though the density of the weapon was a hundred times more resilient to stand up to punishment, though the armor was already impregnable to tested standards of high-energy weaponry, and most kinds of ballistic weapons. It was a suit made of the gods, spread through most of Ascendancy populated space.
It was seen that if an entire population was willing to defend their lands, 'with' the tools and training to do it, it gave nearly an entire population that was essentially a Home Guard. Do the math...
...and still, this was all meant to defend, not become the accused aggressors others saw them as, whcih led in part to the Removal Event. Such a defense base, that usually led lives as normal mortals and inter-dimensional beings, gave the theme wanted. The entire Knighthood acted as a Reserve for the FACAF High Command, though 'every' member of the FACAF was also fitted with the Knight Power Suits.
What 'wasn't' included was any sense of Feudal royalty, or influence. The Knights rather, took the mindset for the most part, of their Jedi guardians. In fact, the Jedi were fitted as well, and then they returned the favor by increasing their numbers, and giving the real base for the Knighthood.
The protection and prosperity of all life. This gave the Ascendancy the moral base, and strength that gave trust, and a sense of belonging to, quite in fact, all beings within the Guardianship. That kind of base all all these fronts and facets, was where the Ascendancy gained true strength from.
Yet another however, was the Dimensional Fortesses, which would allow vast stores of Gaian war material to be stored, as well as apparently, allow them to Fold the entire Pocket near a target and flood an enemy with overwhelming power. It was clear that the Gaians lacked this overwhelming power, and by doing so, couldn't uphold their ideals. It was the Ascendants that were once again helping fully with this project, and even were actively using their knowledge to create new planets, mainly Type-M Class rather than prodigous gas giants, in decent numbers. A Pocket had no real boundries, and with a single, stable mega-Star, a Pocket could hold up to forty planets, these which were made deliberately into mainly city-planets, like they were vast Death Stars (without the useless superlasers. There's no challenge in such things...)
The pocket then would be filled with every asset of need. Yards and Foundries, Sattellite Space Stations of all kinds, and integrated defense and support networks. Then vast forests of Hikari Trees were grown many of these same city-planets, mainly in the ultra-pure oceans that were created as well, giving a water source, as well as life base for the Trees. The result was Hikari Shields that were rediculous in level so power.
In fact the Trees were steadily spread throughout the new Guardianship Supercluster, and more and more, the Shield grew in massed strength. That level of protection kept pirates and other such forces from dare trying to mess with Ascendancy Forces, which could pounce on them in mere moments of a distress call, assisted by the Hikari Power.
With very little waste and lack of efficency, as well as near lack of disruptions such as pirating and black marketering, prosperity in the Ascendancy was at an incredible high. In fact, a few short days before, Lord Aleaic had declared the entire Supercluster as entering a Diamond Age, where there seemed no limit on any endeavor of life, exploration, knowledge, defense, technology, partnership, pride, and many many more.
The hard work was paying off, and the worries of 'needs' were being replaced by other concerns. Paparrazi and other such stupid things were not present, though glory still had it's place in areas.
As a result, there 'was' interest in the goings on of the Holy Council.
It was, if nothing else, amusing to learn that Aleaic wives had declared their intentions to divorce Aleaic, so that in two months time, the third Lady, Aleiac inadvertantly found, would become the Third Wife.
....worse, Aleaic learned during a trip back to Terra, that Lady Creation herself had begun a brand new process to bring more into the picture, Aleaic's status as the Representative Power. Ladies Tsunami, Arashi, and Jennifer would go through a secret conversion process, to infuse them with celestial essence.
They would become actual goddesses, with full Portfolios relevant to their current Council Positions, which would be complete by the time the formal wedding would commence. In fact, many of the Council members were taking this time to either strength their Links to the Partnership Trees, or in such cases like Belldandy, Ifurita, and others, enter formal training and conversions of their own to infuse their own celestial essence, all of which was meant to give better ability to protect the Council against their enemies.
But it was the future itself that was at stake in the end. Lady Creation had taken the time to also delve into Aleaic's future. Apparently one minor aspect of Aleaic's place as a Power was not realized.
Aleaic's very powers was an attractant to the opposite gender. Worse, it was likely he might incure 'more' attractants, so Lady Cration had taken it upon herself to investigate Aleaic's possibility (behind his back..) of drawing more mates. She shared this openly with Aleaic's coming mates, and the investigation discovered a shocking revelation.
That revelation was turned into Celestial Law, and when Aleaic found out while he was vacationing on Terra as a supposedly normal bachelor, that he learned of the following 'information'...
In under a thousand years, Aleaic had to be mated to exactly twelve celestial mates, les something destabilizing like the Black Wilt, or worse occur.
In Aleaic's own words: "...this must be the most infernal arranged marriage guideline anyone has EVER been forced with! HOW THE (blank) CAN I LOVE TWELVE WOMEN AT ONCE!!?!!?
I'LL KILL YOU LADY CREATION!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He lost his voice for a day after that happenstance.
In anycase, it was The GrandFather that confirmed it all, and Aleaic was really hating being a Power all of a sudden. The minefield laden was so terrifying to even think about, Aleaic considered boarding an OmniFighter, and Folding dead in front of a GE Super Star Destroyer, and attacking it, as preferable to THIS!!
It was here that, when Aleaic had returned to White Diamond/Sapphire, that it was only a few days before the wedding of the Age. The Second Age of the Ascendancy was barely a few years old, and already star shaking events were taking place.
And you 'know' everyone who was everyone would be coming to the wedding, the ball, the celebration, the prenuptual ceremony, noting the Partnership Ceremony between Lady Jennifer and the Core Hikari Tree, as well as seeing how dizzying a varaiety of colors among gowns and dress wear, as well as the famous of the famous within the Ascendancy.
They still had 'that' trapping of course.
But moreover, among this, the Ascendancy was ready to Reveal itself upon it's Second Revealing, the first having been the original Reveal Event fifty plus years ago. Even despite the many enemies, the Ascendancy was immensely stronger, all scars were erased, and the Gaians had learned from their mistakes of the past.
They were ready to make new ones, and still continue on with what they stood for. The Five Core Values, the Guardianship, the Knighthood, and most of all, the life and prosperity of all beings and souls they touched. Still knowing their old grounds had been fought over by goddesses knows how many powers, and their enemies that were searching for them, the Gaians, as before, and even moreso now, were not afraid of the future that faced them.
It wasn't because they knew that their border was over 500 million light-years away from the Milky Way Galaxy, and core Local Group of Galaxies, and still another 200 million to the Ascendancy Core Worlds Border (add a few hundred more to the Capital System...)
It wasn't because all their works could be torn down by powers far stronger than any civilization. Or be attacked by the unknown of enemies from anywhere.
Or even even fear supposedly imposed by others..
It was a lack of fear, because Gaians were ever confident, and knew they stood for what was right.
As Aleaic looked out at the now long set sun, and the immense carpet of stars, and the multiple bands of the galaxy they resided 'over', he felt his pride rise once again, an easy thing to feel these days. The view below of his normal view of the night skyline of Jurai`alheim and the Sapphire Ocean afar, accented the view impeccably.
There would be dark days ahead, but fighting for what his citizen souls believed in, gave him strength galore. Everything combined gave a new future that no darkness could overcome.
"Now if I can get used to the idea of twelve wives.
....yeah right." Aleaic drypans and looks over at a barely hidden, laughing Snow Raven Khan. "I feel for you... well, not really."
Aleaic just dryly looks at McKenna, and then notes Lady Yurika and Lord Akito walking up towards them, Aleaic quips. "Is it time?"
Akito nods. "The chamber with all the holo-cams are set, and all HPG-Dimensional Booster Stations are ready." Yurika adds. "StarFleet commands are placing the Fleet and all defenses at high alert. Allied forces also are prepared, though anyone trying to attack us from this far away are really asking for it."
Aleaic chuckles, then looks at Khan McKenna. "Well. It's time to reveal ourselves once more, as well as to state out total truth to the rest of civilized space and beyond.
No more will the Ascendancy be seen as a power of oppression, facisim, or aggression, but for who we 'really' are. The Guardians that stand for the freedom and prosperity of 'all' souls, no matter who they are, what their standing, or what their past is.
From this moment forward, we are the light for all souls to follow. We 'have' to be the one that can do just that. It's what we always wanted to be, what the final dream of the Guardianship stood for, and what everyone who has died and never reclaimed, shed their blood for.
Now... let us go and end the speculation of who we are, and inform once and for all who we will be for the rest of eternity, far past the time the last star is snuffed out from this Universe, and we have moved to giuard the vast universes and dimensions we have yet to touch yet.
My friends, our days of hiding are over."
The other three are impressed by the total air of confidence that is sounded, they instantly bow. "Man, that is so refreshing to hear." McKenna remarks. "No sign of contempt, derision, discord or any theme of hatred.
My founding Clan ilKhans would never have belived such a place could exist, a utopia."
Aleaic corrects. "Not utopia, never that. Rather, a simple place that hope can never die."
The Khan nods, and then Aleaic leads them all back in towards the Council chambers.
The next speech that was coming, would change the course of the history.
Khan McKenna looked over.. "Goodness ilKhan, you're not getting sick again are we?"
Aleaic just sniffs it up. "Nay, I think someone was talking about me somewhere." The Snow Eagle Khan shrugs. "If that's all it is."
Another long sunset with the crest of Ascendant Galaxy framing, though it was a different angle than it was when they first arrived five years ago. So many things had changed in such a short time. The Gaians had kept to themselves utterly, reached accords with their now vast numbers of Jedi to protect their Archonis Supercluster only, and not beyond, to protect the trillions of souls among the 107,367 various major races and civilizarions, and untold millions upon millions more individual races, of all technological levels and even multi-dimensional status.
The Gaians never had it so good, even back at home in comparison. With the formal Guardianship Treaty that gave the Gaians central control of the protection of the entire Supercluster, and the five hundred plus galaxies within, as well as the now seventeen dimensional pockets, where new systems were being actively created and terraformed, groomed into vast dimensional fortresses, this all was made to protect the 1,957 major shipping lanes and thousands of countless JumpChulip SuperStations among thousands of major central shipping center Systems.
While the Gaians only counted their own population among official records, it was very very hard to ignore the feedback from all the commerce, and the infinite amounts of resources and consumables, even the countless variaties of delecacies and such that made it's way into the now uber-advanced Republic Core Worlds.
There were several major changes since the Removal Event as well. First was the full activation of the Monolith Archives. The Gaians had expanded the concept of creating free floating vast archives for storing 'all' knowledge, from one major one, to ten all across Ascendancy Sphere space. These Archives, only the size of a large Cruiser at present, would one day be larger than many moons in size. The flexible and literal growing nature of the Archives would mean as new sections of ultra black holo-memory blocks, some the size of a stadium, were added, the constant upload of information of ALL kinds would mean the Archive would never seem to stop growing in both aspects.
Then there was the Knighthood of the Ascendancy Guardianship. To infuse great pride in everything the Supercluster enjoyed, Lord Aleaic himself declared every Gaian, and every proven allied citizen soul, as Knights of the Ascendancy Sphere. They then were provided with special training in using a new kind of power armor.
A single Hikrai Key Ring was distributed to every soul, first the warriors, and then in very large numbers, every proven soul, such that they only need contribute to the Guardianship in 'any' decent way. Even kinseths in High School Centers and training academies were among this. The Ring (no, not 'that' one..) allowed a recipient to summon a suit of literal speak, jeweled power armor. The set was of a jeweled type of armor surface, made of 'actual' jeweled composition. (Sapphire, Ruby, Topaz, Amythest, Diamond, Tiger Eye, Opal... ect ect..) The robes and armor took the form of the users favorite colors, with a cloak and robes meshed into the suit, with colors that matched the armor very well. (which meant 'any' color scheme was possible..
...'any'....)
The suit came with a weapon of choice, (..again any kind wanted, hard weapon or energy base, usually swords of course..) that was made up of the same material, though the density of the weapon was a hundred times more resilient to stand up to punishment, though the armor was already impregnable to tested standards of high-energy weaponry, and most kinds of ballistic weapons. It was a suit made of the gods, spread through most of Ascendancy populated space.
It was seen that if an entire population was willing to defend their lands, 'with' the tools and training to do it, it gave nearly an entire population that was essentially a Home Guard. Do the math...
...and still, this was all meant to defend, not become the accused aggressors others saw them as, whcih led in part to the Removal Event. Such a defense base, that usually led lives as normal mortals and inter-dimensional beings, gave the theme wanted. The entire Knighthood acted as a Reserve for the FACAF High Command, though 'every' member of the FACAF was also fitted with the Knight Power Suits.
What 'wasn't' included was any sense of Feudal royalty, or influence. The Knights rather, took the mindset for the most part, of their Jedi guardians. In fact, the Jedi were fitted as well, and then they returned the favor by increasing their numbers, and giving the real base for the Knighthood.
The protection and prosperity of all life. This gave the Ascendancy the moral base, and strength that gave trust, and a sense of belonging to, quite in fact, all beings within the Guardianship. That kind of base all all these fronts and facets, was where the Ascendancy gained true strength from.
Yet another however, was the Dimensional Fortesses, which would allow vast stores of Gaian war material to be stored, as well as apparently, allow them to Fold the entire Pocket near a target and flood an enemy with overwhelming power. It was clear that the Gaians lacked this overwhelming power, and by doing so, couldn't uphold their ideals. It was the Ascendants that were once again helping fully with this project, and even were actively using their knowledge to create new planets, mainly Type-M Class rather than prodigous gas giants, in decent numbers. A Pocket had no real boundries, and with a single, stable mega-Star, a Pocket could hold up to forty planets, these which were made deliberately into mainly city-planets, like they were vast Death Stars (without the useless superlasers. There's no challenge in such things...)
The pocket then would be filled with every asset of need. Yards and Foundries, Sattellite Space Stations of all kinds, and integrated defense and support networks. Then vast forests of Hikari Trees were grown many of these same city-planets, mainly in the ultra-pure oceans that were created as well, giving a water source, as well as life base for the Trees. The result was Hikari Shields that were rediculous in level so power.
In fact the Trees were steadily spread throughout the new Guardianship Supercluster, and more and more, the Shield grew in massed strength. That level of protection kept pirates and other such forces from dare trying to mess with Ascendancy Forces, which could pounce on them in mere moments of a distress call, assisted by the Hikari Power.
With very little waste and lack of efficency, as well as near lack of disruptions such as pirating and black marketering, prosperity in the Ascendancy was at an incredible high. In fact, a few short days before, Lord Aleaic had declared the entire Supercluster as entering a Diamond Age, where there seemed no limit on any endeavor of life, exploration, knowledge, defense, technology, partnership, pride, and many many more.
The hard work was paying off, and the worries of 'needs' were being replaced by other concerns. Paparrazi and other such stupid things were not present, though glory still had it's place in areas.
As a result, there 'was' interest in the goings on of the Holy Council.
It was, if nothing else, amusing to learn that Aleaic wives had declared their intentions to divorce Aleaic, so that in two months time, the third Lady, Aleiac inadvertantly found, would become the Third Wife.
....worse, Aleaic learned during a trip back to Terra, that Lady Creation herself had begun a brand new process to bring more into the picture, Aleaic's status as the Representative Power. Ladies Tsunami, Arashi, and Jennifer would go through a secret conversion process, to infuse them with celestial essence.
They would become actual goddesses, with full Portfolios relevant to their current Council Positions, which would be complete by the time the formal wedding would commence. In fact, many of the Council members were taking this time to either strength their Links to the Partnership Trees, or in such cases like Belldandy, Ifurita, and others, enter formal training and conversions of their own to infuse their own celestial essence, all of which was meant to give better ability to protect the Council against their enemies.
But it was the future itself that was at stake in the end. Lady Creation had taken the time to also delve into Aleaic's future. Apparently one minor aspect of Aleaic's place as a Power was not realized.
Aleaic's very powers was an attractant to the opposite gender. Worse, it was likely he might incure 'more' attractants, so Lady Cration had taken it upon herself to investigate Aleaic's possibility (behind his back..) of drawing more mates. She shared this openly with Aleaic's coming mates, and the investigation discovered a shocking revelation.
That revelation was turned into Celestial Law, and when Aleaic found out while he was vacationing on Terra as a supposedly normal bachelor, that he learned of the following 'information'...
In under a thousand years, Aleaic had to be mated to exactly twelve celestial mates, les something destabilizing like the Black Wilt, or worse occur.
In Aleaic's own words: "...this must be the most infernal arranged marriage guideline anyone has EVER been forced with! HOW THE (blank) CAN I LOVE TWELVE WOMEN AT ONCE!!?!!?
I'LL KILL YOU LADY CREATION!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He lost his voice for a day after that happenstance.
In anycase, it was The GrandFather that confirmed it all, and Aleaic was really hating being a Power all of a sudden. The minefield laden was so terrifying to even think about, Aleaic considered boarding an OmniFighter, and Folding dead in front of a GE Super Star Destroyer, and attacking it, as preferable to THIS!!
It was here that, when Aleaic had returned to White Diamond/Sapphire, that it was only a few days before the wedding of the Age. The Second Age of the Ascendancy was barely a few years old, and already star shaking events were taking place.
And you 'know' everyone who was everyone would be coming to the wedding, the ball, the celebration, the prenuptual ceremony, noting the Partnership Ceremony between Lady Jennifer and the Core Hikari Tree, as well as seeing how dizzying a varaiety of colors among gowns and dress wear, as well as the famous of the famous within the Ascendancy.
They still had 'that' trapping of course.
But moreover, among this, the Ascendancy was ready to Reveal itself upon it's Second Revealing, the first having been the original Reveal Event fifty plus years ago. Even despite the many enemies, the Ascendancy was immensely stronger, all scars were erased, and the Gaians had learned from their mistakes of the past.
They were ready to make new ones, and still continue on with what they stood for. The Five Core Values, the Guardianship, the Knighthood, and most of all, the life and prosperity of all beings and souls they touched. Still knowing their old grounds had been fought over by goddesses knows how many powers, and their enemies that were searching for them, the Gaians, as before, and even moreso now, were not afraid of the future that faced them.
It wasn't because they knew that their border was over 500 million light-years away from the Milky Way Galaxy, and core Local Group of Galaxies, and still another 200 million to the Ascendancy Core Worlds Border (add a few hundred more to the Capital System...)
It wasn't because all their works could be torn down by powers far stronger than any civilization. Or be attacked by the unknown of enemies from anywhere.
Or even even fear supposedly imposed by others..
It was a lack of fear, because Gaians were ever confident, and knew they stood for what was right.
As Aleaic looked out at the now long set sun, and the immense carpet of stars, and the multiple bands of the galaxy they resided 'over', he felt his pride rise once again, an easy thing to feel these days. The view below of his normal view of the night skyline of Jurai`alheim and the Sapphire Ocean afar, accented the view impeccably.
There would be dark days ahead, but fighting for what his citizen souls believed in, gave him strength galore. Everything combined gave a new future that no darkness could overcome.
"Now if I can get used to the idea of twelve wives.
....yeah right." Aleaic drypans and looks over at a barely hidden, laughing Snow Raven Khan. "I feel for you... well, not really."
Aleaic just dryly looks at McKenna, and then notes Lady Yurika and Lord Akito walking up towards them, Aleaic quips. "Is it time?"
Akito nods. "The chamber with all the holo-cams are set, and all HPG-Dimensional Booster Stations are ready." Yurika adds. "StarFleet commands are placing the Fleet and all defenses at high alert. Allied forces also are prepared, though anyone trying to attack us from this far away are really asking for it."
Aleaic chuckles, then looks at Khan McKenna. "Well. It's time to reveal ourselves once more, as well as to state out total truth to the rest of civilized space and beyond.
No more will the Ascendancy be seen as a power of oppression, facisim, or aggression, but for who we 'really' are. The Guardians that stand for the freedom and prosperity of 'all' souls, no matter who they are, what their standing, or what their past is.
From this moment forward, we are the light for all souls to follow. We 'have' to be the one that can do just that. It's what we always wanted to be, what the final dream of the Guardianship stood for, and what everyone who has died and never reclaimed, shed their blood for.
Now... let us go and end the speculation of who we are, and inform once and for all who we will be for the rest of eternity, far past the time the last star is snuffed out from this Universe, and we have moved to giuard the vast universes and dimensions we have yet to touch yet.
My friends, our days of hiding are over."
The other three are impressed by the total air of confidence that is sounded, they instantly bow. "Man, that is so refreshing to hear." McKenna remarks. "No sign of contempt, derision, discord or any theme of hatred.
My founding Clan ilKhans would never have belived such a place could exist, a utopia."
Aleaic corrects. "Not utopia, never that. Rather, a simple place that hope can never die."
The Khan nods, and then Aleaic leads them all back in towards the Council chambers.
The next speech that was coming, would change the course of the history.