Exactly 27 years ago Humanity invented a new form of transport, a technology akin to the discovery of fire, it was the capability to create artificial wormholes allowing traversal through space regardless of distance, it was a light in the darkness for humanity, a way to ignore the numerous problems that arose from space travel.
At least it was.
The constant splitting of space caused space itself to become fragile causing fractures that would exert massive amounts of gravitational energy on its surroundings, this was "an acceptable cost" according to The United Galactic Federation and so the relentless expansion continued, entire solar systems terraformed in less than a year.
The Federation continued to pacify the general public by largely suppressing fracture related incidents with many millions of civilian casualties being wiped from records.
However for a select few planets near the galaxies edge that suffered excessive fracturing, they were able to discover something humanity has asked itself since the dawn of time.
They were not alone.
Perhaps in this universe they had not yet discovered other life but that did not mean they were alone, after all the beings that emerged from the broken space were most certainly alive, not just alive but thriving in their new environment
The creatures that emerged seemed incredibly strange, some outright defying the laws of physics, because of these creatures' unexplainable appearance and abilities many people that witnessed such beings began to worship, a practice that had been banned many thousands of years ago by the long dead rulers of humanity.
Seeing the creatures miraculous abilities The Federation concealed this and sent multiple Mobile War Planets to hunt down these creatures for research and experimentation as well as eliminate any planet that had come into contact with these beings and for a time everything had been seemingly dealt with.
Then came the day known as the The Second Fracture, to this day there is still no clear answer for what truely happened on that day or why it happened, the Federation was effective to the extreme in concealing it to the point where many considered it to be more of a myth than an actual event.
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Magnus woke in a panicked thrashing motion, all he could see was darkness pressing down on his eyes.
He was blindfolded... and seemingly tied to some chair or wall.
Once he realized his situation Magnus immediately stopped wasting energy furiously wriggling around and started trying to recall how he had gotten into this situation attempting to find a way out.
He had been scouting around the old Northern city ruins on an old civilian planet for a new place to set up camp...