Preface Part 1: The Order

What interest do we of the Order have in coming to study Xeno Syndicate?  We immortals of the Order are concerned with it because it has disturbed the natural progression of destiny in the universe; it has caused a seemingly irreparable alteration of the original manifestation of existence.  To us, the Xeno Syndicate has corrupted the god itself.

For those of us of the Order, whose mandate it was to protect the original time line of events of the universe, the corruption of destiny imposed upon existence by the Xeno Syndicate has shattered our beliefs, destroyed our faith, undermined our most sacred prophecies.  Our Order itself has fallen, our members scattered, wandering aimlessly throughout time and space, carrying on in mundane, purposeless, indefinite existence.

Some of our Order spend existence in the form of stars, simply churning through their mindless rage for the ages.  Others of our kind delve their consciousness into the form of vortexes, their souls quelled by the paradox of existing as nothingness.

But others of our Order have retained some measure of hope: that in studying the origins of the Xeno Syndicate, we may somehow discover the root of the Xeno Syndicate's corruption of the space-time continuum, and, by doing so, somehow find a way to correct it.

But it has been countless revolutions of the universe and the original Xeno corruptors have never been discovered.  With each passing revolution of the universe, space-time becomes exponentially, furthermore corrupted.

Preface Part 2:  The Revolutions of the Universe

Before the corruption, the universal measure of time itself had been gauged according to the revolutions of the universe.  At the beginning, all matter and energy unfolded from the Xentux, the name given by the race of beings who first discovered the singularity at the center of the universe.  From this, all the celestial bodies would coalesce, forming the planets upon which living beings could evolve sentient minds, and, therefore, the capability for ascension.

The galaxies would expand out into the infinite darkness to a certain, predestined extent, where, finally, gravitational forces would cause them to attract back in unto each other towards the Xentux.  Any sentient beings who had evolved the capability to ascend would be able to join the ranks of the ascended before the collapse of the universe.  When all matter and energy in space-time had returned to its source, all would thus explode again, beginning a new revolution of the universe, and a new chance for new beings to evolve sentience and thus ascend.

The process was like a the lungs of an all-encompassing living god who would breathe a new revolution of the universe with every exhale, and, with each inhale, take in unto itself the newly evolved ascended beings. 

We, the ascended, worshiped this process, believing it to be a manifestation of god.  But then, the corruption of the Xeno Syndicate rendered everything we had held to be divine clearly and simply meaningless.

It is unknown by any of the ascended how it occurred exactly, but, somehow, a single action committed by the Xeno Syndicate was responsible for altering the balance of matter and energy in the universe.  The Xeno Syndicate somehow caused the galaxies to expand beyond the threshold of the Xentux.   Thus, in the final revolution of the universe galaxies of the universe, all matter and energy has thus expanded into the infinite darkness beyond the point of reclamation.  Every particle of matter and energy now drifts evermore outwardly, until all are left alone, entirely unsupportive of life.

It was as if the Xeno Syndicate somehow killed our god, with only a, cold breath of an empty universe left.

Preface Part 3: The Human Corruption

Before the death of our god, we had first heard of the corruption of the Xeno Syndicate many revolutions of the universe ago, while overseeing conflicts between newly evolved sentient beings in the Sagittarius Galaxy.  The Order, upon discovering the presence of the corruption in the universe, made the following decree: "A presence has appeared in space time which has not been predestined in any of the infinite revolutions.  Our task is to investigate this anomaly."

For over a thousand revolutions we oversaw the Pinwheel galaxy, sensing nothing.  The Order did not know the nature of the corruption at that time; did not know the corruption was of the Xeno Syndicate