The Nephaprican empire of the 2nd age grew in knowledge and technologies that were ages ahead of other intelligent life in the galaxy, and Nephapricus had been truly a universal wonder to behold. Because of Nephaprican’s expanding influence, many aspiring species braved the cold infinite distances between stars, assured that other stars did have planets, and that there was life out there after all. Many were willing thralls to the chores that became below the dignity of the Nephapricans who were self-proclaimed superior beings. In addition to ships that traveled at unimaginable speeds, the Nephapricans developed other technologies that spun off the physics behind the star-door technologies, such as a method of communication between any distance in the galaxy where a proper receiver could be found. After a couple million years they could and did begin making and destroying whole planets and stars. That began to draw the attention and ire of another galactic empire that also thrived in the galaxy, which proved irreconcilably alien to the Nephapricans and their ambitions.
After a couple hundred million Earth years the Nephaprican Empire claimed territory that spread to the far ends of Magphoreus along three of the seven great arms, Carina, Orion, and Scutun-Crux where many colonies of Eagolim civilizations spread out. To the Incapricans, the Nephapricans seemed to be upstarts who were immature in an evolutionary sense. The Incapricans also spread throughout the Scutun-Crux arm of Magphoreus millions of years before the rise of Nephapricans, and they had already spread to as far as the Carina arm where Nephapricans gained knowledge of their existence, and learned about the athletic Incaprican journeys across the vast distances. Many star faring Incaprican (reptilian) races lived their whole existence aboard deep space travel vessels that were whole worlds in themselves, and marvels of terrestrial engineering. Many of these ships probably still float around out there in space, seeking a calm, peaceful, and warm cranny of the galaxy to colonize. The Incapricans were the various species of reptilian-like genetic makeup that had attained a life span that knew memories reaching back for several million Earth years. Incapricans gained dominance of the Scutun-Crux arm of the galaxy by seeding it from one or maybe more cluster galaxies that were swallowed by that arm early on in the beginnings of the second golden age of Magphoreus.
The Nephapricans were just not impressed with the Incaprican’s simpler technologies, and they seemed to refuse to accept the wisdom of their mathematics, dismissing it as not much more than primitive mysticism and superstitions. There were two types of Incapricans known as First Born who were ancient long-lived races of reptiles. They lived very long lives for millions and millions of Earth years, and then there were the Child Races developed by the ancient First Born to be sent out to surrounding star systems. Some First Born species also grew in stature with their enormous life span to become giant beings that evolved extra hearts and brains to become like walking skyscrapers. Although tensions were undeniable, there had also been some bonding between the Eagolim colonies and the Incapricans who it is told in ancient lore helped the Nephaprican adventurers across the deep voids between stars along the Carina and Scutun-Crux arms of the galaxy.
The Incapricans took issue with the Nephaprican approach to the galaxy as their own tapestry to arrange as they pleased while Incapricans tended to evolve along with the rules that made the galaxy into whatever future it made itself into. Nephapricans were using energies and technologies so vast and sophisticated that they were moving whole stars about through wormholes to new locations and destroying and rebuilding gas giant planets into terrestrial worlds. The empire’s ability to construct a custom made planetary system became an ability noticed by the Incapricans across the otherwise silent distances of the void.
Galactic war had been swift and vicious where each side would be quick to work out a truce. The economics and physics of the matter made war in space more self-sacrificing than beneficial. In space, life or death could only be as thick as the radiation shielding of a ship and no empire could afford the tremendous cost of war-shattered accomplishments that already held together like a house of cards. Therefore a line became formally drawn between the Carina and Scuton-Crux arms of Magphoreus, which didn’t stop the Nephaprican’s reckless galactic architecture and renovations from spreading beyond Scuton-Crux to the very center of the galaxy itself. There, at the galactic core, the greatest accomplishment of the Nephapricans known as Goag Ralus had been constructing the latest seventh arm of the galaxy named Fybrolus for billions of Earth years now. The Fybrolus arm still spun off of Ralus Xnoga to this day to shoot whole star systems up the arm in orbits around the mighty Magphoreus.
The galaxy renovating years became the peak of the Nephaprican empire after over 400,000,000 Earth years beyond the first journey between the stars Ea and Poa, which by then became stars a good quarter of the galaxy apart after 400 million Earth years of galactic orbit. Many peripheral alien races participated in the great galactic civilization, and they populated the emptiness between the stars with their own vessels during a golden age of technologies. After the reptile/mammal war between the galactic arms, (where reptile proved more determined to endure sacrifice then the technologically superior mammals who evidently had more to lose,) the Nephapricans then demonstrated a new wisdom attained from the experience of galactic war. This had been because even for the most technologically divine galactic civilization, life had still been a precarious miracle that could be snuffed out in one wrong move. The reality of Magphoreus was viciousness and dangerousness that were only insulated by a cocoon of coldness and unimaginably vast distances that made up space itself.
When the Nephaprican Empire became over 478,000,000 Earth years old the empire suffered the calamity of the star-door star Fedor unexpectedly going nova. The exploding star destroyed the planets that were thriving with natural life as well as the Nephaprican colonies in the same system. That would not even be the whole extent of the calamity as the star Gralga soon after also went nova to destroy its habitable life-giving planet. Now two of the 15 great star-door planets were destroyed for all time along with billions and billions of intelligent lives, not to mention the lesser life that thrived on two naturally habitable planets. The Fedor and Gralga star-doors also disappeared although they probably still exist. The event almost destroyed all 15 stars. While Gralga had been thousands of light years away from Fedor, it had still been the closest star-door star to the Fedor nova. Whatever went wrong with the physics of the initial fusion of 15 stars, the Nephapricans in their god-like technological wisdom and knowledge were able to correct the problem and save the remaining 13 stars along with their amazing time/space folding star-doors. Nephapricans of Doldorian decent inhabited both stars Fedor and Gralga, and this cut off those Eagolim civilizations from the rest of the empire, which had spread out from those destroyed star-doors. The communication system still worked, but these Eagolim became the lost wayfarers of the galaxy with only warp technologies to weave their influences from star to star.
At the peak of this Nephaprican empire Magphoreus had become a mighty complex element-forging being who it could be argued attained a form of self-awareness with the benefit of billions of trillions of intelligent beings all aware of their place in the universe. Goag Ralus has since come to embody this galactic self-awareness. The galaxy evolved beings capable of appreciating first hand the kaleidoscopic shows of the star-forming novas of collected dust and debris, instead of observing through the primitive telescope technologies of lesser-evolved planetary beings. All this seemed to have declined after 478 million Earth years of galactic civilization growth. Nephapricans became more and more secretive in their travels and designs.
Perhaps a new calling to Nephaprican existence replaced their obvious boredom with tending the herds of intelligent alien races that were trying to master technology and space travel in hopes to become like the great Nephaprican masters of time and space. Nephapricans
were the stuff of legends throughout the galaxy, but they still suffered an inferiority complex over not living very long lives compared to rival reptile races. Reptile races were also perfecting the more sophisticated Nephaprican tricks of traveling outside of reality just enough to slide along time and space faster than light using the fusion energies of a technologically sophisticated warp drive. That could have been the crux of what drove the Nephapricans to do what they did soon after the next nova event 586 million years into the legendary Nephaprican galactic empire. What happened next would be known as the legendary disappearance of the Nephapricans along with seven of the great star-doors, and the stars that powered them.
The great disappearance happened after the call to the Eagolim to return to the home stars. Of course not all responded to the call. By this time the Negolim had dwindled, and because of shorter lives they had evolved very different from the Eagolim who were numerous throughout the offshoot galactic colonies that stretched to the far ends of Magphoreus. There had evidently been a reason for the great call of return that went beyond just nostalgic reunion. The Negolim employed the Eagolim for their mischief at the galactic center, since the Eagolim were better able to live to have their children’s children’s children’s ….(several more children’s) … children’s children see the end of a journey to the galactic core.
The galaxy Magphoreus still continued hard at work manufacturing heavy elements and stars out of what began as a universe of mostly just single proton hydrogen atoms. The star of Earth orbits the galaxy every 200 million years or so, and has been at it for about 4 billion Earth years now during this 3rd Age of Magphoreus. Aquari still traveled the galaxy as the third age emerged from its dark age beginnings. Goag Ralus still orbited Ralus Xnoga and spun a new star nebula into a new orbit every thousand or so Earth years. Goag Ralus had really been a deviation on the idea of Golimechoid life forms, however Goag Ralus existed as a single being hundreds of solar masses wide with no method of reproduction. Goag Ralus was, for all intents and purposes, an immortal being who created stars and planets in the galactic core like the mythical Earth god. There were beings of many galactic civilizations who had braved the journey across thousands of light years of time and space to behold Goag Ralus.
Beings of all varieties have all responded to a call similar to the legendary Nephaprican migration call to the core, and they cultivate their civilizations on the surface of Goag Ralus where this being lovingly controlled the gravity and atmospheres. Many cultures lived on Goag Ralus and they worked with the great planet-maker in the divine purpose of creating new customized life-giving star systems to then send into galactic orbit about the great ancient galaxy called Magphoreus. Aquari could communicate with Goag Ralus when he visited, and he still often traveled there to visit and tell Goag Ralus about the life that found its day in the sun on the outskirts of the galaxy where life stretched out in abundance like sprawling galactic suburbs. A ring of life circled Magphoreus like the rings of Saturn. At the sprawling outskirts of Magphoreus the galactic geometry had been scaled down by the evolution of the universe to a smaller scale of light and mass where life could become capable of cascading into existence along a path of complex molecules.
This had become the delight of Goag Ralus in this being’s larger than life existence. Life would be the fascination of Goag Ralus who acted like a giant galactic mother goddess, or maybe more like a child with His own galactic ant farm. Aquari also liked to visit the Eigalli who lived on Goag Ralus under the light of one of its seven suns that were each consisting of several solar masses in size. The Eigalli were descendants of the Eagolim who traveled here to build Goag Ralus over 4 billion Earth years ago. So ends this tale of the three ages of Magphoreus and the mystery of the cosmic being called Aquari from ancient databanks preserved by the Eigalli.