Aquari
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Aquari emerged from a wormhole opening that suspended the portal matrix between two pillars, which were almost identical to those displayed on the roofs of Aungtalli temples. That had been an innovation to wormhole technology that evidently could re-shape the portal matrix on this end so that they no longer have to be identical. The pillars were on an open stone patio in the midst of a majestic city of architecture that appeared carved from solid rock. The style of the architecture had a Greek Corinthian feel to it, as if Aquari had arrived on the Olympus of Earth myths. The sky looked indescribably deep and covered with multicolor luminescent glowing clouds that lit the sky like floating LED blimps. This had been a Devaplanet about three times larger than the planet Jupiter, but not a gas giant, although the atmosphere looked thick and full of different layers and densities. Quanta-nanocode programmed Virtual particle technologies controlled all gravity on the surface to provide quanta-nanocoded landmasses and oceans that produced gravity a bit stronger than Earth’s. Beneath that quanta-nanocoded surface existed the carefully controlled fusion powered core of a star that still provided unlimited heat and energy for the harnessing. The Devaworld had been a profound application of knowledge and technologies that were acquired from those beings that figured out how to make Goag Ralus.
Also on the patio that opened to the endless glowing skies, there stood Chronolus, but he had morphed into a more ethereal form. There were holograms of smoke that were in the shape that once had been his head, which had now become a crown of smoky vapor for hair that waved about with his beard and mustache in response to an undetectable phantom breeze. The now vaporous hair that before looked more like it had been chiseled into a rock statue back on Urania when Chronolus had been in Asura form, now appeared as the stuff of white puffy cloud.
Now Chronolus appeared in Devasura form, and they were on a Devaworld forged out of one of the original stars of the early cluster of stars that had been Nephapricus. They were on a planet created from a star still powered by a fusion core, which now had been maintained by the technologies of some of the most advanced beings in the galaxy.
“This planet used to be the star Paz before it had been forged into this planet of my birth.” Aquari had been wondering what exact star this planet had been made from when Chronolus said that. Aquari became impressed that his thoughts had apparently been read, which he had learned to shield from the Eigalli. It had probably been the knowledge brought back by Eagolim from the core about the Eigalli DNA switches that led to this evolution in Chronolus.
“You are correct Aquari. My kind, this planet, and the whole lost civilization of Nephapricus were evolved with what the returning Eagolim had learned from their legendary journey to the core.”
Aquari figured out a psionic shield to keep his thoughts away from this being when a much smaller human-like creature walked on to the patio to whisper something into the ear of Chronolus. Chronolus crouched down to hear from the pale hairless six and a half foot tall humanoid being who wore no clothes, yet displayed nothing where his/her/its genitalia would be. The smaller being appeared to be very pale with a large bald head and large dark eyes. In spite of Aquari’s newly constructed psionic shield, Chronolus still noticed Aquari’s interest as he got up from his crouching position. “We’ve created these biological androids to be our servants here for doing menial tasks below the dignity of my kind. They are much more vulnerable and sexless than the crude Golimechoid that were first created with electronic DNA by the ancient Eagolim for similar reasons.”
“This is all very impressive to me Chronolus. It has long been a mystery of what ever happened to the ancient culture of Nephapricans and the seven star-door stars that disappeared from the galaxy along with the seven lost star-doors.”
“Oh there is much more to impress you with my cosmic visitor. This planet can be flown anywhere in the galaxy at up to twice the speed of light with the warp dimensions that were quantum-nanocoded into the planet itself. We are now in a stable orbit about a hundred light years above the dark matter plain of the galaxy.” Chronolus seemed to stop himself suddenly, which told Aquari’s telepathy that Chronolus figured that he had already said too much.
Chronolus changed the subject. “Come Aquari, I’ll give you a tour of the planet. Here on the Devaplanet I can fly about at will just like you.”
Chronolus began to float away from the patio so Aquari followed. Soon they were surrounded by other ethereal Devaworld beings similar to Chronolus. They flew by Aquari at will like Chronolus with dazzled appearances on their faces as they noticed the circle of light that was Aquari. The planet sprawled with city architecture upon it, made up of huge and beautiful stone buildings that caused Aquari to remember the immortal galactic architectural stone craftsmanship that made the Nephapricans, and their Eagolim descendants so great. Nephaprican architecture had been built to exist longer than the civilizations that inhabited it, and it often did.
They arrived at a structure that appeared as a plateau stretching for miles in every direction, which had been made up of rows and rows of smaller structures that looked like several subdivisions of small stone houses. The cloud surrounding Chronolus seemed to solidify into a pair of legs for walking, and he landed. He then walked around Aquari with a curious look.
“You seem to always turn to face me.”
Aquari tried to offer an explanation. “That is one aspect of the physics of my nature. Another observer walking a different direction would also observe me always turning to face them.”
“Fascinating. I’ve heard a lot about you my whole life, but that never really prepared me for this encounter.”
Chronolus started walking down a row of stone structures. Aquari wasn’t sure where they were at first. Each stone structure had sophisticated monitoring equipment built in with beautiful stone designs and craftsmanship. There appeared to be Devasura writing engraved on the top of each structure, which led Aquari to at last realize where they were.
“Just like your Nephaprican ancestors, I see your kind still uses ego-phantasm technology.”
Chronolus smiled in admiration of the rows and rows of high-tech tombs he walked through. “We have pretty much evolved ourselves beyond dying at all Aquari. These tombs preserve our ancestors going all the way back to Nephapricans of the second age of Magphoreus where we inherited this great crypt of ancestors. If you are going to inhabit a dead body we may be able to find you a suitable one here.”
Aquari became reluctant to explore the Devaworld that way. “Oh I don’t need to take on that form. I don’t plan on being here all that long.”
Aquari had been wise to that old Eagolim trick. On the Eagolim’s legendary journey to the core they used to entomb grand architects for Aquari to inhabit so they could do research on the corpses afterwards. Aquari never gave them that access to knowledge of him, and if Aquari ever did inhabit an Eagolim body it would always be a nobody from the lower social orders of the nomadic clan of Eagolim that journeyed to the core to tame Ralus Xnoga.
“Very well Aquari. I will get used to you as a circle of light then. I had another reason to bring you here.” Chronolus seemed disappointed that Aquari had not taken the dead body bait. He approached one of the tombs at the end of a row, which looked like it had been one of the very first tombs constructed there.
“This is Saturlus, my great great grandfather who was one of the last that was still the Nephaprican species. He used to know you.” The moment filled with a silence that started to annoy Chronolus. “He’s here. They are always here watching while invisible. Saturlus! Show yourself!”
Another see-through being that resembled a pale low quality hologram appeared by the Saturlus tomb. Unlike the orange toned Chronolus, Saturlus appeared blue with long blond hair growing off his head and face. He looked like a Nephaprican with classic Nephaprican tattoos up and down his muscular arms. They were a robust species of courageous star travelers, ances
tors of the 3rd Age Eagolim, and one of the first mammal pioneers of terrestrial life.
Saturlus spoke apologetically. “One of the reasons that I use to justify this existence Aquari is to someday offer this apology to you. I was among those that decided to send you away after the Eagolim returned from the core with their wisdom. I apologize for hiding our existence away from you for so long.”
Aquari took no offense. “Apology accepted Saturlus. I do remember you, and you can be now fulfilled of your existence and move on.”
Saturlus appeared suddenly sad at Aquari’s suggestion. “Oh if only it were that simple Aquari. My body is preserved with dark matter technologies that anchor my ego here.”
Chronolus decided to interrupt in order to offer his perspective of ancient history. “I always thought of the Eagolim who abandoned Nephapricus to travel to the core as a bunch of radical thinking nomads that got wrapped up in an old Doldorian cult, which preached about cosmic evolution. That was why we persuaded you to leave the galaxy before they applied the Goag Ralus technologies to our dying star-door stars. We had chosen to observe your effect on the galaxy from afar Aquari.”
Aquari explained. “I crossed paths with those ‘radical thinking nomads’ a few times while they were on that journey, but I usually just helped them out of times of peril. I wasn’t the orchestrating guiding light of that journey as some legends accuse me. Those Eagolim followed a computer program that Doldorian priests were always working on.”
Chronolus seemed to decide that Aquari had seen enough of Saturlus. “Well it is all ancient history from an ancient age. Today we oversee the galaxy from these Devaworlds, and have evolved beyond just being mere galactic beings that are still integrated with the phantom matter. There are many other ancestors here for you to meet Aquari. Why don’t you mingle for awhile and refresh your memories with their acquaintances.”
That had been the moment when other ancient beings who seemed to have been there the whole time became visible. Aquari had never been a big fan of ego-phantasm technology as he called it. To the Devasuras it became known as ancestor technology.
Aquari began to say hello to the other ghosts that were now showing their presence. “I always thought the obsession with ego-phantasms was a very backward oriented influence on your future evolution. Ego-phantasms are just old iterations of a dead body’s neural programming left behind by that which continues to evolve.”
Chronolus took the Saturlus apparition aside. “Grandfather! Why do you sound like you weary of this place, of my friendship, and being my counselor? We shall discuss that later. What do you know about this Aquari being? I’ve lured him away from Tze-Doldus-2, and he won’t be returning through the wormhole door he came here through, but what danger does he now pose to my plans?”
Saturlus replied. “Aquari is much more ancient than either you or me, or even the great Goag Ralus Itself. Aquari is a being from the first age of Magphoreus when the speed of light had been much faster, and still rapidly slowing down. In the first age of Magphoreus there had still been no terrestrial life because the very simple first matter of the Universe had not yet been broken down into the complexities required for terrestrial life to evolve and exist. Ralus Xnoga devoured many of these first stars of the universe into the Magphoreus quasar, which accelerated the breaking down of matter into complex matter back in the first age. That began the photonic age where there evolved something so much like life that it is actually what terrestrial life is based on, and tries to imitate. Many Nephapricans from my time believed that Aquari had been an immortal being who probably had his start during this photonic age of the Magphoreus quasar.”
Chronolus just had more questions after that answer. “An enigma from before known history you say? He can’t be defeated? I need him away from Tze-Doldus while I orchestrate the final collapse of the Tze-Doldus star core. I shall soon have a neutrino nova bomb, which that star-door is now constructing.”
“Aquari always just does as he pleases Chronolus. I guess that’s why part of our planned evolution into Devasuras included getting away from Aquari. You have lured him away from the planet, but he can just fly back there, probably before the end of the next Tze-Doldus-2 year. I do recall some experiments with virtual particle fields that can successfully repel Aquari from a planet’s point of mass orientation when his area is surrounded by a special virtual particle field set to a counter virtual particle mass orientation.”
Aquari greeted many ego-phantasms from the past during the ghost reunion at the Devasura’s ego-phantasm crypt, which placed an uncomfortable, morbidly somber mood on the occasion. Aquari eventually became more interested in living Devasuras than the ego-phantasms of that ancient technological crypt full of memory. Aquari later became acquainted with many living Devasuras at the next place Chronolus flew him to. They did not much use technological transportation on the Devaworld since they had evolved flight into their own personal constitutions. Devasuras were almost as ethereal as the ego-phantasms, and could go through walls with perfect control of their own mass while on the Devaplanet. They were profoundly multi-dimensional beings, liberated from the dark matter effects on the universe. The younger Devasuras were more a purple skin tone, and the woman featured heads with telepathic horns that made them look more like the Eigalli than the men.
These Devasuras were like the antithesis to the statue-like Asura form that Chronolus assumed at the other side of the wormhole. They enjoyed the vast terrain of a star made into a planet with quanta-nanocoded virtual particle control of the planet’s gravitational field all across the surface. The way the clouds looked illuminated the planet with florescence that doused out many places for shadow on the surface. Aquari could tell that those gravitational fields increased dramatically in the upper atmosphere, which appeared deeper in that sky than anything an Earthling can imagine, or describe.