Document discovered at archeological site 467389lpq on planet 32,12:3 of the Supernova Galaxy
Week 34, 4, 3rd Revolution of the Universe
The following account is an account conveyed by one of the most ancient of rune artifacts ever to have been discovered. Imperial academics and historians are unable to verify the veracity of what is conveyed. No other documents from the 3rd revolution of the universe are known to exist. The authorship is thought to be of a being who had once been a Celestial Guardian but had left the Guardian Order for undisclosed reasons.
The Enlightenment of the Xeno
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In my travels through space and time, throughout various revolutions of the universes, in search of the origins of the corruption of the manifestations of existence, my attention fell upon a certain mortal being known as the Xeno. This Xeno was in the process of ascendency to sentience in the 3rd revolution of the universe, a being of the human race, which had evolved on planet 67,38:3 in the Milky Way Galaxy, a planet otherwise known as Earth.
Upon further investigation, I discovered indications that this planet Earth and the human race had been the origin of sentience in the universe - a long sought for discovery by the Guardian Order. I had discovered no proof, but rather only suspicion, which grew more and more as I continued my investigation.
For countless revolutions of the universes, the Guardian Order had sought for such discoveries that I was now finding until it had exhausted their resolve to find them. It had always been commonly understood among the Order that the origin of sentience in the universes was simply not discoverable. And yet, the discoveries I was uncovering were there, real, and of such magnitude that I thought I ought not to discover them at all.
For if it were to become widely known which planet and which beings in the universe had first evolved sentience, I feared evil forces in the universe, perhaps even corrupt members of the Guardian Order itself, might conspire to manipulate the timelines of the universes and corrupt the manifestation of existence further for their evil purposes. I feared as I was making the discoveries that I might even be the cause of the corruption I was investigating.
Clearly my fears were justified. For here I was, on my quest to discover the roots of the corruption of the manifestation of existence having been led to discover the long, lost, forgotten mystery of the origin of sentience at the center of my quest. This could not be mere coincidence. I would have to proceed with utmost care.
All the signs of the corruption of the manifestations of existence that I had already discovered were leading me to this single, mortal, human being known as the Xeno.
As I followed the timeline of the Xeno since his mortal birth there in the 3rd revolution of the universes, I came upon a moment in time when at the age of 9 Earth years he experienced a transference of his consciousness from a parallel universe, an incongruity in the original timeline of the universe. As such, I traced this occurrence to an orchestration by a wizard of an empire known as the Xeno Syndicate of the 67th revolution of the universe. My suspicion grew that I had discovered a temporal contradiction of epic magnitude.
At this early age in his childhood, the Xeno thus had his mind opened by the wizards of the Xeno Syndicate to an instinctual awareness that his consciousness could traverse time and space. This provided the young Xeno a connection through he could draw upon the power of his consciousness from all parallel universes, just as an ascended being might be capable.
In spite of this, throughout his timeline, until he was an adult, he lived a mundane life in the human society, never demonstrating any power or special awareness of the extent of his consciousness, until one day in his early adulthood. On that day, he began to write under a sort of obsession accounts of perceptions he was having of various events of timelines of various empires of various other beings of various other galaxies of various other revolutions of the universe.
As I followed his early adult years as he feverishly wrote out his visions and perceptions, I discovered that they were prompted by his participation in an online video game that he and many young men and women of human society tended to play. In playing this video game, perceptions of events of other timelines of other empires of other galaxies became known to him. And yet unbeknownst to him such events proved to occur in reality in other parallel universes.
I discovered that the game itself was a tool used by covert agents of the Xeno Syndicate of the distant 67th revolution of the universe to command their interests in the universes. Unbeknownst to the Xeno or the other young humans who were playing the video game, the events that unfolded by their tactical and strategic decision-making processes were being played-out in reality by the Xeno Syndicate in various galaxies of the 67th and other revolutions of the universes.
In this way, the Xeno Syndicate was able to retain its tactical and strategic leadership, keeping them safe in the 3rd revolution of the universe, immune from any temporal manipulation or attacks by adversaries.
The moment of the Xeno's ascendency to sentience came as he consciously became aware that the game was not merely a game and that his consciousness was connected in reality to various other manifestations of his consciousness in other parallel universes and revolutions of the universes. It was at this moment that he also became aware of me and my ongoing observation of him.
This he proved in one account of the various stories and perceptions he obsessively posted on the Imperial Conflict Roleplaying Forum, in which he conveyed exactly this account that you, players of Imperial conflict and other are reading at this very moment.
At that moment of writing this my account, his ascendency to sentience occurred. I feared the repercussions of this and the repercussions of those who might read the account also ascending to sentience. Those who would read the Xeno's account might come to question whether or not the game they were playing was merely a game and entertain the idea that the game was a tactical tool used by the Xeno Syndicate in service to the Xeno Syndicate's exploits across the universes. What were the repercussions if they too, like the Xeno also ascended to sentience?
At first, it was only the Xeno who realized that he had access to a depth of consciousness from infinite parallel universes upon which to draw not only perceptions of other worlds, but also the actual capacity to traverse time and space and interact with the events of the parallel universes that the 'game' was conveying. Would others likewise do so? How would this affect the manifestations of existence? Many consciousnesses from the 3rd revolution of the universe suddenly interacting in space time would have significant impacts to all timelines of the universes.
The more I investigated the consciousness of the Xeno as it branched out throughout different parallel universes, I returned again and again to that incongruous event that had occurred to the mortal Xeno at early age of 9 - the moment when Xeno Syndicate wizards of the 67th revolution had caused the Xeno to experience transference of consciousness between parallel universes. I could not nor ever would be able to discover whether or not it was a temporal contradiction.
I realized to my horror that at his early age of 9, the Xeno's consciousness there in the 3rd revolution of the universes was in fact displaced from the 1st revolution; therefore, that the corruption of the manifestation of existence was traceable back to the 1st revolution of the universe, a time and space that I could not visit let alone connect with or perceive, since I myself had evolved and attained sentience in only the 2nd revolution of the universe.
To my knowledge, I had discovered in this mortal being, the Xeno, the oldest, most powerful force known in the universe. A being whose manifestation I could only perceive as he existed in the 3rd revolution of the universe. My quest had thus come to an end, for I could not project my consciousness back in time beyond a revolution of the universes when I myself had never existed.
As such, I could only continue my observation of the Xeno, watch and recount his activity as far back as the 3rd revolution of the universes in the hope that I might come into contact a Guardian older than I who could traverse his consciousness back to the first revolution.
Sadly, it was widely assumed there were no such Guardians older than I.
Who could carry on the quest to discover the root of the corruption of the manifestations of existence? I was at a loss, my task seemed hopeless.