The Stellar Rebellion by Skyler Grant

Author:Skyler Grant [Grant, Skyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-31T07:00:00+00:00

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I couldn't implement the traps just yet, but it wasn't too soon to start considering how I was going to structure them. Space was full of monsters—we knew it, we were some of them. We didn't necessarily want them destroyed, not if there were an option, but we certainly needed to discourage them.

That could start from the very beginning. We'd have the ability to reshape this galaxy from its very fundamentals, to make something new, and that meant we could alter some of the fundamental laws.

It was the most obvious fix to the problem of new, deadly species appearing. We simply didn't allow for their existence. Species would grow up peaceful, loving, and without a trace of violence within them.

I didn't like that option.

Predators always found a way to exist. If you made an entire herd of sheep, you were simply asking for them to be the meat at the slaughterhouse.

Whatever kind of galaxy we were going to leave behind, it deserved better than that fate.

No, instead I was thinking along the lines of a dimensional gradient fed by violence. All new and developing species would start out in the galaxy as we created it, part of a community with thousands of races to potentially meet and interact. Any violence and bloodshed however would shift them along this gradient, taking them away and into increasingly smaller bubble dimensions. In the most extreme cases, by the time any especially violent species built all the radio transmitters to point at the skies and listen, they'd hear only silence. Trapped within their own bubble.

If they were beyond redemption, I figured they would turn on themselves then. Without an enemy to fight they would either ravage each other until there was nothing left, or they would find a way to work together, and to build the tools of SCIENCE needed to really look and explore beyond their world.

It wouldn't take them much to figure out what we'd done, not when their first interstellar probes would return to their planet revealing they lived in nothing but one great dimensional loop. They'd figure out how to break out of their bubble then, they'd build their own dimension-shift engines. Hopefully by then, they'd be civilized enough to hold their murderous nature in check.

If not, it would be up to the second trap to stop them.

I was calling them the “factories”. There was still tweaking to be done, but between what I was already learning from Vinci's industrial core and the energy-to-matter conversion technology I'd picked up from Flower's people, I could make production facilities that would seem almost magical even to a newly interstellar technological species. The ability for people to have what they wanted, when they wanted.

I'd leave these factory worlds scattered throughout space, just waiting to be claimed by a species.

They'd allow a golden age to a fair-minded species, every need met while species devoted themselves to noble pursuits such as SCIENCE or baking. Even lesser hobbies like art would be acceptable.

Of course, they could also be used for war.

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