Insect Wars: Dark Zone or Light Universe?
Aleck, thanks for the chat link. Very informative!
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).
And as for the Dark Zone being a universe of evil, chaos, depravity, and darkness… I think that’s propaganda used by His Divine Shadow to keep folks out of there. There aren’t many good planets… but there are some! [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
Back to Aleck, yep, the Beans sound pretty firm about the Insect Wars happening in the Light Universe.
Since Brigadoom is also quite firm that the Brunnen-G first defeated the Insects, then moved to the Light Universe when they realized their planet was dying, it seems that they must have traveled back and forth between universes on multiple occasions, during their campaign against the Insects. This actually starts to make more sense after what Kai said in The Game: The Brunnen-G seem to have a significant knowledge of how to travel between various “zones.”
Man, is there anything they CAN’T do? [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
1. Preserve their memories.
2. Play chess after death (???)
3. Bio-engineer insect craft.
4. Prevent suns from going supernova.
5. Halt their aging process.
6. Build impenetrable planetary shields.
7. Travel between universes at will.
Anybody got any others? [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
If the Insect Civilization was restricted to the Light Universe, and defeated from a powerful enemy originating from the Dark Zone, this would again explain why His Shadow is afraid to go there.
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