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You belong to an ancient and powerful race which has developed interdimensional travel. However, the only way for it to work is to turn the interdimensional travellers into a disembodied spirit and send it to find a suitable body to inhabit.
In the universes dominated by your race there are always body farms awating to be inhabitted by the incoming waves of warriors.
However, the process of taking over an universe is long and costly. In the realm they inhabit, dilating or compressing time can be done at ease - a trillion years can pass in the blink of an eye, a single moment mused over forever.
Nobody knows for certain the exact purposes of the occult superiors, but most believe it to be aesthetics - they just want to turn the universes they take over into works of art.
You are an interdimensional spy. You hop in into worlds which allow for your existence by offering suitable bodies. Usually, it is not really possible to find a fully suitable body, because those would have to be devoid of what many call "souls", and the technique to create a fully functional "souless" being is rather advanced.
Instead, most cultures become vulnerable to your attacks through their sages and shamans, who have spiritual experiences, opening the door for possession by alien entities such as yourself.
The superiors became interested into a new universe which has begun to sprout off intelligent life - it "popped up" in their radars recently. Three interesting features of this universe draw your attention:
Magic doesn't work within galactic space. Something about the rotating blackholes generate a field that protects the galaxies.
Time travel is possible. You doubt the natives really know how to time travel, but it is still possible anyway, opening up many interesting possibilities.
This universe is in the "neighbourhood" of some unpleasant squidlike beings which are just a little behind the occult masters in terms of power and technology. They will for certain seed this universe, and you may find yourself contending with them for the dominion of this nook of the cosmos.
You're are now in your incorporeal form, looking for a suitable host. The "computer" - if you can call a spiritual being of such massive power this - calculated the earliest beings you can jump into. Their task is more arduous, but at the same time they get first mover advantage. You can't help but notice their timeline is full of rapidly evolution jumps. Might be the work of a squid spy.
Where in the evolution of the species do you wanna jump in?
> When the first sentient life becomes vulnerable to possession
> In an age of armies clashing against each other vying for territorial dominance
> In an age of a collapsed empire and the power vacuum thus generated
> In an age of enlightenment and rapidly advancing science
> In an age of space travel and stellar conquest
> This universe is already tainted, find one where you're the first in
In the universes dominated by your race there are always body farms awating to be inhabitted by the incoming waves of warriors.
However, the process of taking over an universe is long and costly. In the realm they inhabit, dilating or compressing time can be done at ease - a trillion years can pass in the blink of an eye, a single moment mused over forever.
Nobody knows for certain the exact purposes of the occult superiors, but most believe it to be aesthetics - they just want to turn the universes they take over into works of art.
You are an interdimensional spy. You hop in into worlds which allow for your existence by offering suitable bodies. Usually, it is not really possible to find a fully suitable body, because those would have to be devoid of what many call "souls", and the technique to create a fully functional "souless" being is rather advanced.
Instead, most cultures become vulnerable to your attacks through their sages and shamans, who have spiritual experiences, opening the door for possession by alien entities such as yourself.
The superiors became interested into a new universe which has begun to sprout off intelligent life - it "popped up" in their radars recently. Three interesting features of this universe draw your attention:
Magic doesn't work within galactic space. Something about the rotating blackholes generate a field that protects the galaxies.
Time travel is possible. You doubt the natives really know how to time travel, but it is still possible anyway, opening up many interesting possibilities.
This universe is in the "neighbourhood" of some unpleasant squidlike beings which are just a little behind the occult masters in terms of power and technology. They will for certain seed this universe, and you may find yourself contending with them for the dominion of this nook of the cosmos.
You're are now in your incorporeal form, looking for a suitable host. The "computer" - if you can call a spiritual being of such massive power this - calculated the earliest beings you can jump into. Their task is more arduous, but at the same time they get first mover advantage. You can't help but notice their timeline is full of rapidly evolution jumps. Might be the work of a squid spy.
Where in the evolution of the species do you wanna jump in?
> When the first sentient life becomes vulnerable to possession
> In an age of armies clashing against each other vying for territorial dominance
> In an age of a collapsed empire and the power vacuum thus generated
> In an age of enlightenment and rapidly advancing science
> In an age of space travel and stellar conquest
> This universe is already tainted, find one where you're the first in
