Ancient Sothothery Terraform Prehistory

Ancient Sothothery Terraform Prehistory

I  remember when
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place
Even your emotions had an echo, in so much space
And when you're out there, without a care
Yeah, I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Probably

Of all the 640,000 evacuated spheres of the Mutter’s Spiral, the Geminga Sphere has one with the highest terraformed planets in primordial antiquity. Professional planetologists debate (some no doubt to retain tenure eligibility and grant funding) about the root source of said terraformed planets, but they do agree that it dates back several billion years.

The Center for Sothotian Studies (CSS) at the University of Trantor (Not Trantor University. GO RAPTORS!) has published this tentative timeline of the great terraforming of the Geminga Sphere and the eventual dissipation of the terraformers known as the Great Old Ones.

Opponents of the Sothothery Theory of Planetary Terraforming insist that there is no intelligent design behind the development of so many similar planets and that these planetary biosystems supposedly spontanously 'evolved' naturally on their own.

By the way don't miss the septuple-final Rollerball Collegiate Playoff Match between the University of Trantor and Trantor University on the Imperial Holonet this week. Go Raptors! RIck 'em, Rack 'em, Ruck em', get out there and really FFFFFFFFFFFFFFight!

4.5 billion years ago: Cthugha is the earliest known Great Old Ones to visit the Geminga Sphere. Cthugha is usually only present during Hadeon Epochs of planets. There are no witnesses to Cthugha, images are only conjectural.

3.8 billion years ago: The Unbegotten Demiurge "Outer God" Ubbo-Sathla, the progenitor of all early life incarnates.

3.5 billion years ago: Yidhra, the most terrible and awesome of Gaian Mothers, is often claimed to manifest as early pre-Cambrian life emerges on potential garden planets.

3 billion years ago: Shortly after the incarnation of Yidhra, Tsathoggua arrives, settling in remote dark gulfs floculating barren landscapes by excreting out the Formless Spawn to carry out its will.


2 billion years ago: When Chaugnar Faugn arrives, it is almost immediately followed by a "great dying" from oxygen poisoning.

1 billion years ago: The crinoid Elder Things, Elderians, the earliest colonists of the Geminga Sphere. They colonize first the polar water regions, then only much later colonize onto the land. The Elder Things use the Shoggoths (which may be parts of The Unbegotten Demiurge "Outer God" Ubbo-Sathla), which in turn produces other creatures that act as servitors and food.

900 million years ago: Elderians cities expand across planetary oceans.

800 million years ago: The crinoids Elderians adapt to land. Many remain in the oceans, however.

750 million years ago: Rivals of the crinoids Elderians, the Yakshtond Polyps encroach upon the Elder Thing territories, and build their basalt towers on the land. When the Yakshtondians Polyps try to expand into the oceans, it incites a bitter war with the Elder Things. Eventually, the Elder Things are victorious or at least protect their territories and there is détente.

450 million years ago: Elder Thing experiments lead to the first vertebrates, fish, which they permit to evolve on their own for the most part.

400 million years ago: The Great Race of Yith, Yithians, fleeing catastrophe on their homeworld (Yith), transmit their minds (and theoretically their subjective experience) into a race of cone-shaped. They drive the Yakshtondians Polyps underground and imprison them there.

370 million years ago: Amphibians arise on various colonized planets being terraformed. Chaugnar Faugn later creates the Miri Nigri from amphibians as a servitor species.

350 million years ago: Xothians (Star Spawn of Cthulhu) become other colonizing rivals of the Elderians, Yithians, and Yakshtondians The Elderians war with the Xothians, but eventually make detente.

Dagonians (also known as Nommos and Deep Ones) enter the service with the Xothians as the worshipful servitors of Cthulhu, and help build cities for them.

According to legend, the foundation of the K'n-yan underground civilizations dates back to this time, occupied by servitors of Tsathoggua.

300 million years ago: A series of cosmic cataclysms, possibly of artificial origin, occurs, thought to result in the banishment or imprisonment of the Great Old Ones. New Terraforming projects cease.

Yiggians (Progeny of Yig) encroach into the Geminga Sphere, and is said to cause the rise of reptiles.

250 million years ago: Shoggoth sentience is undeniable, the Shoggoths rebellion against the Elderians is suppressed.

200 million years ago: Atlach-Nacha rules its arachnid Children.

160 million years ago: The semi-fungoid, crustacean-like Yugguthian Mi-Go set up a mining operations. The Elderians try to battle them in space, but have technologically regressed, and cannot put up a suitable defense.

150 million BC: Marine-based Elder Things re-subjugate Shoggoths.

150 million years ago: Elder Things war with the Yithians.

150 million years ago: Yithians foil invasion attempts by the giant centipede-like Yekubian.

65 million years ago: An series of interstellar wars results in several planetary cataclysms and global climate changes (debated and contested by academics for thousands of years) resulting in most life being wiped out.

50 million years ago: A late war spasm of cataclysms, the Yakshtondian Polyps escape and take revenge on the Yithians, which transmits its greatest minds to bodies on other planets elsewhere in the system and around a world orbiting a dark star near the Taurus Dark Cloud. Many Elderian settlements are also destroyed, but rebuild some of them.

5 million years ago: The Silurians (Serpent People) flourishes under the guidance of their god, Yig. Their science has progressed to the point that they have created servant species, such as the Gyaa-Yothn (Yothians) and Voormis. Yig destroys the Yothic Silurians when some of the Silurians begin to worship Tsathoggua.

The deep one cities are in their heyday at this time.

3 million years ago: The Voormis gain their freedom from the Silurians, and create their own culture based around the worship of Tsathoggua.

The medusa-like insectoid amphibious god-being (Great Old One) Rhan-Tegoth feeds off sacrifices and worship made by primitive semi-sentient beings natives. Eventually it enters a state of hibernation and petrifies.

2 million years ago: Elderian civilization continues to decline, they retreat to their cities.

1.7 million years ago: The Ithaqua begin to appear.

1 million years ago: Ice Ages are brought about by the combined power of the Ithaqua and the Aphoom Zhah, a final assault against the remaining Elderians, Xothians, Yithians, and Yuggothian Polyps.

342,000 years ago: The Ghè-minga Disaster, an attempt to replicate the Eye of Harmony Experiment, resulting in a quarknova. The crossfire of the Ghè-minga Quarknova and another Quarknova caused subspace and hyperspace access to the Geminga Sphere for the following 339,475 years to be inaccessible. Many starfaring civilizations become stranded in their home systems and regress or disappear completely. After such a large scale disaster crippling access to millions of star systems over a volume over 13 million cubic lightyears, the Spatium Tempus Navigatium Tempus has ceased attempts to replicate the Eye of Harmony. Evidence suggests that the Hasturian Lords of Light devotees have continued to experiement. On seveal occassions the Spatium Tempus Navigatium Tempus have warned of the upcoming Monoceros Disaster thousands of years from now, but is typically dismissed as superstitious prophecy by Omega Point Zealots and ignored.

300,000 years ago: Pht'thya-l'yi, the ancestor of all present day Dagonians (Nommos/Deep Ones) is born to Mother Hydra.

c. 20,500 years ago: The therapodic Lloigor emigrate from Andromeda and controlled anyone and anything who came anywhere near its settlements.