Insect Wars: Dark Zone or Light Universe?
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Originally posted by sgtdraino:
The_Steven_Bell, “millenia” means thousands of years. We’re never told exactly how many. However, it is worth noting that Brunnis 2 is probably not more than 3000 years old: In Super Nova, Stanley views the memory of a dead Brunnen-G on Brunnis. In the memory, the Time Prophet dates Stanley’s visit to Brunnis as taking place 5000 years after that Brunnen-G’s death. We know Brunnis 2 was destroyed 2000 years prior to Stanley’s visit, so the Brunnen-G can only have lived on Brunnis 2 for a maximum of 3000 years… and thats assuming they moved there the day after that dead Brunnen-G dude died. (did that make sense?)On the other hand, the fact that the dead Brunnen-G guy visited the Time Prophet at all, means they were even then traveling to the Light Universe (unless the Time Prophet is somehow simultaneously located in both universes, which I doubt). This could simply mean they routinely traveled back-and-forth… or it could mean that dying Brunnen-G always try to return to their original planet, to preserve their memory in the memory catacombs.
Headgehog, the Brunnen-G didn’t leave Brunnis because they were afraid their stabilizers would stop working, Kai tells us in Super Nova that they left when their sun could no longer sustain life on the planet. This probably refers to the planet’s ecosystem; it does look pretty barren when our crew visit it. Presumeably the Brunnen-G left the stabilizers on out of a sense of nostalgia. Or for the memory catacombs (see above).
The person asking about the mineral deposits on Aurelium 4 could not have been part of the Brunnen-G civilization on Brunnis-1. That was 5,000 years ago, the evacuation of Brunnis-1 took place more like 12,000 years prior to that point. He was probably just an explorer who stumbled upon the planet and decided to undergo the memory procedure not really knowing what it was, like Kai and Zev.
I think the Time Prophet’s planetoid is located in a pocket universe accessible from both the Dark Zone and the Light Zone by those knowledgeable.
The Brunnen-G probably searched for a home for a while in both universes before they found one that was close to Brunnis-1 in ecology and was not in a seemingly dangerous area (at that point the Divine Order would have been nonexistent or a small cult that did not seem like a threat to the shielded world).
They left the stabilizers on because there would be no point in turning them off. That’s dangerous, man.