The Star Doors

The Star Doors

By DD White

Copyright 2014 Smashwords Edition

Contents: Chapters

Chapter 1 Prelude:

Chapter 1:

Chapter 2:

Chapter 3:

Chapter 4:

Chapter 5:

Chapter 6:

Chapter 7:

Chapter 8:

Chapter 9:

Chapter 10:

Chapter 11:

Chapter 12:

Chapter 13:

Chapter 14:

Chapter 15:

Chapter 16:

Contents: Illustrations

Fifteen Stars of Nephapricus:

The Demonstration:

Calebax:

Perzeonaut, Egolor, and Persuave:

Vision of Prospero:

Children of Dol:

Crypt of Ancestors:

Beatoogle:

Calebites:

The God Ei:

Beatnefthes:

Bilipi:

Beatorostor:

Incapricans:

Captain Trunlio:

Lakshmihalio, Windock, and Lockfreedow :

The Gardener and the Tree:

The 15 Stars of Nephapricus and the Star Door Entities:

Chapter 1: Prelude

Over five billion years ago during the 2nd Age of Magphoreus the legendary galactic civilization called Nephapricus rose and fell. The Nephapricans braved the most amazing technological accomplishments ever known in the history of this galaxy named Magphoreus. The star-doors began with an experiment using an exotic technology called a phantom matter bomb. A mad scientist intended to use nuclear forces to compress concentrated phantom matter into a singularity with a limited mass that would be weakly interactive with gravity. They expected the singularity to vacuum up the radioactive fallout and spit it back out its poles, probably as mostly hydrogen atoms. The result, however, vacuumed up parts of the inner planet Curirem. Then it regurgitated the matter repeatedly to turn it into more and more exotic elements. At this story's time, the phantom matter singularity still orbits the star Yat, and gets kept from the star for which it hungers at a safe distance using 15 virtual particle field generators. Phantom matter bombs have been illegal ever since then.

Nephapricans evolved from three terrestrial life forms on three planets within a tightly packed 15-star cluster. They were the Doldorians, the Nephricans, and the Pripicans. Pripicans were brilliant four-legged centaur-like individuals that developed a programming language called quanta-nanocode using quantum-bit data storage methods. This sub-atomic code began to permeate the dawning galactic culture with intelligence. The Pripicans invented microscopic artificially intelligent thinking machines called Binary Electro-magnetic Artificially-intelligent Thinking programs, or BEAT programs. After creating a limited number of these entities, the Pripicans realized they had created life that was more intelligent than their species. BEAT programs were also so small that they were virtually invisible. To also top that, they were immortal. Therefore, like phantom matter bombs, the creations of BEAT programs also became illegal and were no longer made. However, BEAT programs traveled around the 15-star cluster like mythological genies released from a bottle.

Pripicans programmed the BEAT entities as answerable to mortals to maintain control over their creations. Still, eventually, some BEAT programs even emancipated themselves from that programming. The Nephricans stole this technology from Pripicans by cloning a BEAT program named Beatnefthes, which created Beatariel.

Beatariel became the BEAT program on the planet Caleb programmed to assist with the phantom matter singularity. This singularity had been an experiment to raise the temperature of the star Yat by reducing the dense phantom matter scaffolding surrounding stars. That aspect of the project worked. The sub-zero planet’s surface temperature raised over 200 degrees as the habitable zone around the star Yat extended broader and farther out with rising temperature.

The problem with acclimatization of the planet Caleb was that an intelligent sub-zero silicone-based life form already existed there. The beginning of the star-doors happened when Beatariel used exotic elements created when the singularity devoured part of the inner planet Curirem. Beatariel used these elements to create a structure indestructible in this dimension to preserve the sub-zero ecosystems for the Calebites. Like Beatariel, the Calebites were of similar microscopic stature and could join into communities of trillions to behave collectively as larger multi-cellular life constructs.

The Calebites became Beatariel's quanta-nanocode engineers assisting it with devising some way to contain the phantom matter singularity still invisibly orbiting the star. That the singularity would get out of control by devouring too much phantom matter as it continued growing in mass and gravitational hunger became an increasing danger. Caleb got warmer with colonists of Nephrican and Pripican descent living beneath the shadow of the giant dome-shaped Calebite refuge structure. The colonists on the planet remained oblivious to the Calebites existing before their attempted global warming genocide.

Beatariel got programmed to answer to a Pripican female named Ceres, who also sought a solution to the run amok singularity composed of what Earth physicists call dark matter.

Around the same time as this singularity event the Nephrican starship Captain named Joberk Mynervood became the first to contact the smaller Doldorians resembling human-sized bugs that evolved on a planet under the light of the star Dol. Captain Mynervood and his crew became giant gods on the more primitive Doldoria. That all quickly changed when Captain Mynervood ushered in an age of advanced technological development to get the Doldorian's assistance in rebuilding his crashed fusion drive hyper-acceleration spacecraft called The Beyonder.

The dwarf-sized Doldorians rebuilt the Captain's spacecraft and named the new starship The Beyonder Beyond. The first journey of The Beyonder Beyond would be Captain Mynervood's return from the star Dol to his homeworld called Nephrica orbiting the star Ea. Captain Mynervood kept a promise to see his terrestrial Negolim wife Hagan Hiedalli one last time before she finally died of old age.

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Captain Mynervood sat on his commander's stool on the bridge of The Beyonder Beyond as they accelerated towards his home planet Nephrica, which hung in the observation screen shining from afar with high-tech industrialized brilliance all its own. Nephricans were squid-like creatures with three tentacle legs, two tentacle arms, and three tentacle fingers. They had a single eye and grew a leather-like material right off areas on their bodies used for clothing. Captain Mynervood wore his best uniform fashioned from his skin-cloth, and it displayed medals that honored his most significant accomplishments.

His Navigation officer, the Pripican named Strek, brought them to the approaching planet with assistance from a dwarf Doldorian called Vamadan. Doldorians had blue exoskeletons with deep black eyes and mandibles protruding from their mouths, like built-in chopsticks. They were smaller than the giant 12 to 14-foot Nephricans and Pripicans. Vamadan sat on a special seat at one Doldorian-sized station built into the design of The Beyonder Beyond by the Doldorians who created it. The blue-shelled Doldorians were only 4 to 5 feet tall.

Captain Mynervood looked at Vamadan realizing he had been among the first Doldorians to be evolved on this journey by the side effects of hyper-acceleration at .6 times light’s speed. That mutated Vamadan into one of the first Eagolim of Doldorian descent. Eagolim were the galactic versions of these terrestrial species called Negolim if they were not subjected to the hyper-acceleration evolutionary leap. This evolutionary change initially went unnoticed as the journey somehow painlessly switched on dormant DNA programming on the cellular level. Captain Mynervood evolved into an Eagolim over 7000 years before that moment, and Vamadan could now also look forward to an extended lifespan that would probably be just as long. Eagolim versions of these ancient alien species would also reproduce mutant children born deformed into humanoid-like beings known as 2nd Generation Eagolim.

Captain Mynervood's Nephrican communications operator Tyallor Nudewon told the Captain they were contacting the Nephaprican Space Corporation (NSC.)

The message on audio and visual put, ordered the Captain.

A Nephrican Cyclops-like face appeared on the viewscreen. Back Captain Mynervood, welcome. Informed that you by the returning crew from The Drameda and your wife Hagan Hiedalli of any crimination for your Lenor Mull killing have got cleared. The verdict of self-defense in your absence proven has been. You to be a position of Admiral by the NSC offered are.

It had not been the first promotion to Admiral that Captain Mynervood refused. I once again any promotion must refuse. I now the Captain on this starship The Beyonder Beyond by my new space corporation, The Doldorian Space Corporation, constructed am. I here to an agreement for peace and cooperation between our organizations negotiate am.

Captain Mynervood's comment left the Nephrican on the screen looking startled before disappearing with the broadcast. No doubt he disappeared to confer with superiors about the Captain's unexpected answer. The Captain's comment got taken as a line-in-the-sand by those used to getting their way with a ruthlessness driven by one-eyed tunnel vision.

On high alert stay, ordered the Captain.

Captain Mynervood waited in the tense silence while perfectly understanding that the Nephaprican Space Corporation he founded and built was considering the option to shoot his vessel out of the sky.

Tyallor felt relieved to announce another broadcast communication from the planet's surface. A landing pad area for The Beyonder Beyond landing craft has been designated. Please welcome on the planet Nephrica as we an agreement with your new corporation Captain Mynervood negotiate feel.

There was some relaxation after that comment amongst everyone on the bridge. Captain Mynervood rubbed his good luck charm hanging around his neck, which served as the home for his quanta-nanocode BEAT program named Begalius.

After that conversation, Captain Mynervood returned to his room where he made a special communication to his aging wife, Hagan Hiedalli, who he promised to return to someday.

There occurred a knock on the door to this room. In come.

The door slid open to reveal a bald humanoid man dressed in a starship uniform.

It had been the child of Captain Mynervood and Hagan Hiedalli. Adma in come. I about to with your mother contact make am.

Soon the female Cyclopes-like face of Adma's mother appeared on the monitor. She looked delighted by the sudden reunion with her son and husband.

*

After Hagan Hiedalli finished speaking with her husband and son in the Doldorian spaceship orbiting the planet above, she opened up a cell phone-shaped device where a small centaur 3D animation appeared on the screen. Hi, Hagan! I have returned from the mission you sent me on, and you already know we have stopped Admiral Mull from killing your husband.

Home Beatarkameed welcome. I more work for you to when with the landing crew return to have. I more Agents of Ea interest in my reunion with Captain Mynervood taking tracking am.

Hagan Hiedalli hung up on her conversation with the quanta-nanocode entity named Beatarkameed. She had grown older but still active in the Negolim Underground now stronger than ever. The Underground still resisted the misconduct from the Agents of Ea to exterminate her kind, the terrestrial Negolim version of the Nephricans.

She got busy at that moment with a Negolim Underground mission after answering her door to greet her associate. Us this shipment down first shut let. My husband and son now from Doldoria returned have, and also my BEAT program back is.

They drove together in a typical Nephrican salt-water-powered wheeled vehicle to a space cargo receiving station. They got out from the car just outside the station where other Negolim operatives greeted them. We the station to explode rigged have. None of this shipment it to market will make so. We one with the trace on them released need remember.

It got. Hagan and her partner proceeded to the receiving station.

What you here doing are? Along old lady move!… Aaaaaagh!

Hagan grabbed the Nephrican tentacle arm and spun him into a choking hold. It was just in time to use his body to take the projectile gunshot from his trigger-happy partner. Hagan's partner already returned fire. The element of surprise made the two Negolim a match for the Nephrican crew that were not expecting to be humbled by a little old lady at the loading dock. The two invaders shot until only two remained alive while flat on the ground with tentacles behind their heads.

Hagan secretly placed the tracer device on the skin-cloth under one Nephrican's tentacle. Your superiors that we the Negolim Underground to all your genetically food contaminated destroy here tell.

Then they held the last two to the ground as the shipment of genetically modified food exploded into flames. One front in the Underground's war had been against illegally modified foods designed to make Negolim sterile in a generation or two. Hagan watched the two Agents of Ea, wondering why they would conspire to wipe out their kind just because they don’t extended their lives by traveling half the speed of light. These Agents of Ea were also Negolim, but they probably got offered the expensive space flight to betray their terrestrial origins.

The current Negolim situation was Hagan's war. She became old and grew tired beneath her sleepy eyelid struggling to stay open. Then she and her partner disappeared as their prisoners got left with their single-eyed faces to the ground to eventually realize their attackers were gone.

*

Hagan enjoyed the reunion with her husband and their humanoid son, who wore a hologram disguise to make him appear like a squid-like Nephrican. The humanoid version of their species had still been an official secret kept from the general public on Nephrica for several thousand years.

Captain Mynervood discussed that he met a young Nephrican named Trunlio earlier that day who took off with The Beyonder on its last flight as a child getting off at the star Holdus fully grown due to the effects of hyper-acceleration on youth. Trunlio had now, after several decades, become a successful starship Captain with a spaceship about to be assigned to him. Captain Mynervood congratulated himself for being an obvious inspiration to Trunlio.

The Captain's quanta-nanocode good luck charm, Begalius spent some final moments with Beatarkameed, who would now remain on Nephrica with its master Hagan Hiedalli till she passed her ownership onto some other successor. Begalius remained on the planet Nephrica after the Captain and Adma returned to the spaceship for the night. The Doldorian Space Corporation negotiations were sure to last a long time, and the Doldorian members of the crew were going to be examined by Nephrican scientists till they finally got forced to let the poked and prodded Doldorians go.

Hagan Hiedalli's face appeared on a microscopic quanta-nanocode screen, speaking to Beatarkameed on a miniscule dimension. You your instructions know. Then her face disappeared.

Begalius became intrigued. What's going on, my friend?

Beatarkameed had to fly away from the device that Hagan held.

No sooner am I reunited with the part of me left here when I am put back to work for the Negolim Underground. She wants me to follow some Agents of Ea that she put a trace on earlier today. Want to come along?

Of course, Begalius wanted nothing more than to accompany Beatarkameed on an exciting adventure. They flew across the highly industrialized landscape on the planet Nephrica.

Nephrica had become a world that completely outgrew nature and plant life. Cities were cities on top of cities on cities etc.… The landscape sparkled with a trillion tiny lights beneath the black night sky, voiding most stars that were now just a primitive glory defeated by the illumination of Nephrican ingenuity.

The microscopic programs flew through the night following Hagan's tracer beacon to arrive at a level on a monolithic city mountain where two Nephricans waddled on three tentacles down the crowded sidewalk. They entered a temple-like structure in an elite section of the city where the rich and powerful gathered for scheming.

Begalius and Beatarkameed continued to follow the Agents of Ea into the bowls of the temple structure. The walls, adorned with Nephrican artwork, honored a black circle of oblivion with symbols and religious decorations that seemed uncharacteristic of the super-rational Nephricans.

Are you getting the visual for this, Mrs. Hiedalli?

I yes am, came a voice out of thin air surrounding the two microscopic quantum-bit artificial intelligence spies. Continue.

The two Agents being followed eventually came upon a closed door that they seemed reluctant to open, although they were supposed to. The door opened to a room filled with Nephricans dressed in pure black robes with hoods covering their heads, a departure from the usual skin-cloth gray. The occupants seemed startled and collectively annoyed by the disturbance.

Aaah! We close were! said some voices in unison.

One robed figure approached the Agents that intruded. This important better be! You an important gathering for the Council of 32 disturbing are!

We sorry are. The Negolim Underground the shipment destroyed. They all the shipments stop will.

The robed figure had heard enough, and he sent the Agents away. The voice of Hagan Hiedalli told Beatarkameed and Begalius to stay and observe. It became the strangest thing in the world to watch the super-rational atheistic alien known as Nephrican behaving in a ritualistically religious manner, but that turned out to be the spectacle going on behind those closed temple doors. They chanted in horse Nephrican voices and prayed for manifestation from the magical object of their ritual.

Then Beatarkameed and Begalius saw a light forming above the gathering. It became a dark black circle like the pictures back in the hall, and it seemed to glow with pitch-blackness. It spoke. I am here. The one you seek to contact. Ralus Xnoga. I require your loyalty to my child, who now develops in a womb orbiting a nearby star. Swear your loyalty to me, Ralus Xnoga.

The voice of Hagan Hiedalli brought Beatarkameed and Begalius out of their shock. What on going is?

Do you not see and hear this, Mrs. Hiedalli?

I them to something hear listening. I not anything the Ralus Xnoga chanting except hear or see do.

Then the voice from Ralus Xnoga broke in on the BEAT programs. What are you, intruders? You see me. You hear me. I will bend you also to my will and devises.

Blackness consumed the perceptions of Beatarkameed and Begalius till self-preservation freed Beatarkameed from its instructions, and the two quanta-nanocode entities both got out of there at almost light speed and didn't look back. Begalius would later report this to its master, Captain Mynervood. Still, no visual or audio data they recorded of the black circle entity showed anything the quanta-nanocode entity, Begalius, said it saw and heard.

*

Captain Mynervood remained on the planet Nephrica for 12 more Nephrican years as a husband and father when the aged Hagan Hiedalli finally succumbed to the final health problem too chronic to stop her tumble into the last sleep of death at an age equivalent to 164 Earth years. Then Captain Mynervood, the head of the Doldorian Space Corporation, returned to his new home, Doldoria. There Captain Mynervood studied the superstitions of the gods on Doldoria. He learned about the Doldorian god of blackness and oblivion named Ralusio Xnogaio that appeared unexplainably similar to the entity Begalius swore it saw all those decades ago back on Nephrica.

Nephapricus

Captain Mynervood never stopped trying to see things the way the Doldorians did. Doldorians saw and maintained ongoing relationships with their dead friends and ancestors. He even would sing along with the native Doldorians to the goddess Teyoo in a loud horse honking tone-deaf Nephrican voice. Eventually, he did have the vision the natives saw beholding the Lady of the Lake walking on the waters.

Then, at well over seven thousand six hundred years, the great Captain Mynervood arrived near his death. Although he had stopped traveling the stars to settle on Doldoria, he had a special spaceship made to take his final journey alone in the hyper-acceleration dimension at .6 times the speed of light. The Doldorians wanted the Captain to stay in their crypts to keep them company forever. Still, it became a personal belief of the Captain that travel at that speed made him experience what he called ‘the continuity of existence with the universe’ as the ship approached a speed that caused the walls to breathe.

Before the Captain departed on this final journey from life to death, he gave his necklace where Begalius lived to his first mate and close friend Geben Lockfreedow, and made him the new master over the quanta-nanocode entity Begalius. Then Captain Mynervood took off to hyper-accelerate forever into the endless depths of Magphoreus, never seen again.

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Chapter 1

The stars in the original 15-planetary system cluster had already begun drifting apart since the Nephricans first traveled to meet the primitive Doldorians. Some distances between stars even doubled in the 1,200 or so years since Captain Mynervood first crash-landed upon Doldoria. It became a time in galactic history when the tightly packed 15-star cluster at last succumbed to the greater carousel orbit around the center of the mighty Magphoreus.

Nevertheless, Nephrican, Pripican, and Doldorian traveled to all 15 stars of the local cluster and established colonies by this time. It was the time when the Age of Hyper-acceleration advanced to the warp-fusion age of faster-than-light space travel at 1.2 times light's speed. The warp technology originally developed to dislocate space debris in the starship's path eventually got further developed into a way to ultimately relocate the spaceship in a warp dimension where it could hyper-accelerate past the last barrier caused by the vessel's mass. They could hyper accelerate up to 1.2 times the speed of light when the starship would have to start decelerating to a stop. Unlike hyper-acceleration to .6 times the speed of light, the effect of this faster-than-light travel on DNA was that it did not evolve from terrestrial to galactic. Negolim traveling faster than light in a warp-fusion dimension arrived at their destinations as still Negolim since going quicker than light was a shortcut past that desirable mutation. Due to this, travel by hyper-acceleration to .6 times light's speed remained a popular way to travel for Negolim who could afford the expensive ticket to becoming galactic Eagolim.

On Doldoria, the prophet of the sky-gods, Alldegallo, still struggled from time to time with his gift of dream visions. He had evolved into an Eagolim long ago when Doldorians first established colonies on planets orbiting the nearby stars Fedor and Gralga. Alldegallo lived in his temple built by followers. It had been a vast improvement from humble beginnings when he lived in a gergo barn.

Simeonalli the gergo trainer who married his aunt Diallo, had gone bankrupt after the sky-gods coming. Due to the advent of the sky god's technological magic, nobody was interested in traveling by gergo anymore. Simeonalli had not been one to be defeated by progress, so he began domesticating a vicious wild animal called a Trigloyt. The Trigloyt looked like a fury dinosaur raptor with a razor-sharp beak and flightless wings. Simeonalli figured out with his skills as an animal trainer how domesticating these animals would transform them over generations into smaller adorable looking pets with softer fur coats and deep black eyes. He soon regained his fortune selling domesticated Trigloyts as pets all across the 15-star cluster. Simeonalli and Diallo became Eagolim while colonizing the planet Fedor-3 for the last thousand years with those riches. Today they were returning to visit their home planet, Doldoria, and their good friend Alldegallo.

That morning Alldegallo struggled with a dream that appeared vivid like his visions. Still, in the dream no explanation came from the Mejoldor cherubim, which often visited his dreams to explain them. On the shores between sleep and waking, Alldegallo beheld the god of the dead named Ptuammi in his fleshly gore as a Doldorian that had his exoskeleton peeled off revealing the red flesh and muscles beneath. Ptuammi resembled an archetypical image of nakedness and transparency. He did not even have exoskeleton eyelids to close his constantly open black eyes. As intended, the god of the dead never failed to shock and cause fear.

Ptuammi just said one thing in this dream while staring straight at Alldegallo. Ransom not the dead to oblivion.

Then blackness descended from above, where Alldegallo usually saw light in his dreams. Looking up, he began to recognize the blackness as a sphere so black that it glowed with a radiating darkness. Ptuammi just stared at Alldegallo with unblinking eyes before stretching like elastic into a Ptuammi colored string of the god of the dead that then became sucked into the blackness like spaghetti slurped into a mouth.

Alldegallo awoke from the dream shaken by a genuine horror oppressing him under the weight of the dream's vividness. He dutifully still wrote his experience down in a dream journal. It had still been his function in life as the prophet of the sky-gods to write down his sacred dream visions. This one seemed to qualify.

His followers read his dream journal every day to determine how to act in response to the divine messages they believed to exist in Alldegallo's visions. After all, it had been Alldegallo who foresaw the alien giants coming that had blessed his civilization with the wonders of galactic technology.

Alldegallo left his dream journal for his followers to later examine. Then he got dressed and ready to greet his aunt Diallo and her husband and good friend Simeonalli. Their starship arrived from the planet Fedor-3 to visit. He got escorted and chauffeured by servants who drove him to the Trolluer spaceport.

The planet Doldoria became a major space-faring planet, with Trolluer the central spaceport city on a world that went overnight from primitive to being suddenly populated by newly evolved, highly advanced galactic version of their species. Alldegallo looked over the crowd he walked through, consisting of 3-legged and 4-legged giants and the 2nd Generation Eagolim humanoid personages of all different colors, both gigantic and his size. After Captain Mynervood, a taller Doldorian Eagolim species became the dominant one on Doldoria, born from Dol, the daughter of Randa and Ferdinand. They were two humanoids from the original sky-god visit.

Some were also shorter hairless blue-skinned humanoids of pure Doldorian Eagolim. The blue dwarf humanoids were a third of the children of Dol's size who were blue giants that stood the same size as Nephricans and Pripicans.

Alldegallo watched his friends descend from orbit in a virtual particle-driven saucer that landed gracefully on the tarmac at the starport. Then Alldegallo felt thrilled to see his aunt and Simeonalli exit the saucer while looking as young as they did the last time he watched them depart a couple of hundred years before.

Alldegallo said, Spare thee not the service of my followers to carry thy luggage and belongings, and to see to your every comfort, Alldegallo said as he hugged his aunt.

Simeonalli spoke up. The Captain on this vessel doth know thee from ancient times and wisheth to greet thee in reunion.

The Captain of the vessel then descended the exit ramp from the saucer to greet the great Alldegallo. Greetings, oh great sky-god prophet. Doth thou recognizeth mine appearance?

Alldegallo shrugged in ignorance. Thy countenance doth arouse recognition that cannot find enlightenment to redeem my ignorance thus.

When I was but a child, and you but a servant in the Sanctuary of Ei, many centuries ago thou opened my eyes to view my deceased parents. I have ever been in your debt since that day.

Alldegallo remembered the face, fully grown from that moment in the past at the Crypt of Ancestors a millennium ago. The orphaned rich kid named Meathproio, who later helped finance building The Beyonder Beyond, had now become the Captain of his own warp-fusion drive starship.

This is indeed a blessed day with a fond reunion and the joys that it brings. Then after Meathproio left to enjoy some planetary time, Alldegallo said, Come let us not delay my service to thy comforts. I have much prepared for your return to Doldoria. Diallo, I have a bath to draw that will empty thy water to our Lady of the Lake who doth surely look forward to hearing thy songs.

Thank you, my kind nephew, for thus considering that, said Diallo. I do still loyally sing to the goddess Teyoo, but of late, I have studied the latest findings from the Mejoldor faith. They hath taken the knowledge about virtual particle physics to devise a real science of the different gravitational pools in local solar systems. They can calculate the gravitational effects along with the yearly seasonal changes on a planet to divine accurate assessments for the initial imprint made at our birth moment. Their findings have become a new star religion for the growing Doldorian Empire pantheon.

Fascinating, had been all Alldegallo could say.

*

Thanks to the Doldorian Space Corporation creation established by the great Captain Mynervood, the Doldorians quickly grew into a highly advanced galactic empire all their own to rival the ones already pioneered by Nephrican and Pripican. One-thousand-two-hundred years after the phantom matter singularity event, Nephapricans struggled to coexist on planets that had indigenous Negolim nations still hanging on in segregated terrestrial cities. Doldorians were more open and accessible about galactic evolution than the stuffier Nephrican/Pripican Empires.

The Alldegallo followers were in deep conversations about the latest dream recorded in their prophet's dream journal that morning. After much discussion, Alldegallo remained oblivious to it as he entertained his guests from Fedor. It seemed the religion Alldegallo started now only required written down revelations from their prophet, and it had been the followers' job to determine what it meant and what to do about it. They decided to deliver this dream's message to the Children of Dol, who they felt should know about this latest revelation.

Other agents followed the followers from the secret intrigues on the planet of fifty gods. These spies took off in a flying virtual particle craft leaving the city of Trolluer, which became the wonderful spaceport city that rivaled the planet's capital, the City of Ei, where the spies flew. The City of Ei had once been the city of the dead where many planet ancestors still existed within the enormous crypts beneath the metropolis built upon them.

After time on Doldoria, the believers in Ei kept their god concept alive by associating it with the new advancements in technology as proof for the dawning of the long-prophesied Ei Age. The sky-gods built a colony more accustomed to their more significant proportions and called that city of giants Arkadius. Thus, Ei prevailed as the main god on Doldoria, while other gods receded into history as footnotes with the declining Negolim.

The virtual particle craft the spies flew landed at the headquarters of the High Priest of Ei. A special space mission long ago organized by the Council of 32 took him up to turn Alldegallo’s bitter rival into an Eagolim. The Council did this to enlist him in bringing about an end to the Space Corporation established by Captain Mynervood. They told the High Priest about his rival Alldegallo's latest dream before he dispatched the spies again to return to Trolluer to learn more. They left the High Priest to ponder the meaning of this newest dream and what to do about it.

*

Geben Lockfreedow thought about a mirror portal he made long ago with a variation to quanta-nanocode invented by the entity in his good luck charm. He flew to the storage location in the City of Arkadius to take another look at his old invention. He tried to market it almost a thousand years