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The records tell us that the Otherlords broke into our reality, our space\/time continuum, from somewhere else, from \u201cOutside\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>To those who saw them and lived, they appeared as moon-sized maelstroms of roiling energy and matter, and wherever they encountered life – or even the potential for life – they annihilated it.\u00a0 <\/span>They scoured planets down to the bedrock, leaving only the bones and grave-dust of corrupt, contaminated worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n And yet, in crossing from their dimension into ours, the Otherlords in fact put themselves at a disadvantage.\u00a0 <\/span>As immense and powerful as they were, they made themselves subject to the laws of our universe when they entered it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Under the lash of imminent extinction, humanity created and deployed weapons of horrifying power and scope.\u00a0 <\/span>Sun-lances that generated CMEs from a system primary star, then focused them like a laser.\u00a0 <\/span>Singularity cannons that lobbed artificial black holes.\u00a0 <\/span>And the worst – dark antimatter.<\/span><\/p>\n But these – and more – were used at a cost.\u00a0 <\/span>Sun-lances left stars dangerously unstable; singularity cannons twisted the very fabric of space\/time, and dark anti-matter weapons left a lingering taint, a contamination not unlike that of the Otherlords themselves.\u00a0 <\/span>Fighting fire with fire, perhaps.<\/span><\/p>\n Bit by bit, the invaders were destroyed or pushed back to their origin point, an otherwise unremarkable mass point drifting in the void.\u00a0 <\/span>If they expected to find a way out of our universe, back to their home, they were disappointed.\u00a0 <\/span>Their doorway had closed.\u00a0 <\/span>They were pummeled into memory.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The records tell us that the Otherlords broke into our reality, our space\/time continuum, from somewhere else, from \u201cOutside\u201d.\u00a0 To those who saw them and lived, they appeared as moon-sized maelstroms of roiling energy and matter, and wherever they encountered life – or even the potential for life – they annihilated it.\u00a0 They scoured […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-starforge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csnorris.com\/magus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}