by DD White
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The Golimechoid who took over the Poa gate were first created by the Eagolim on their legendary journey to the core of Magphoreus. The Poa Golimechoids were one of the first experimental models that merged robotics with the rules of organic life, and were probably discarded on some planet on the way to be replaced with newer Golimechoid creations. The early Golimechoids were inferior, and produced toxic waste that didn’t make them easy to cohabit with, but they didn’t need very exotic habitats to exist. Because they were evolving from the first of these creations they had a simple chromosome arrangement made up of basic codes. The problem would be that the same formula had been used to create Goag Ralus much later on. Goag Ralus had been intended to be a single being with no means of reproduction. Like Goag Ralus, Golimechoids had electric virtual DNA programmed by joining strands of quanta-programmed virtual digital chromosomes made up of quanta-nanocode. When Nephapricans learned of this from great great great (several more great’s) grand children of Eagolim who returned from Goag Ralus, it had been realized that Goag Ralus could theoretically take advantage of this particular early species of Golimechoid in order to reproduce itself. Ever since then it has been feared that Goag Ralus could provide a way of introducing its chromosome arrangement to fertilize a Golimechoid egg. The child would be born like a regular Golimechoid at first, but would grow incredibly fast, requiring massive amounts of energy. The child would soon be too large to stay on a planet and would begin the growth over millions of Earth years into a seven pointed being just like its Father Goag Ralus. This had been what Devasuras were trying to keep from happening when they had Incaprican saboteurs introduce quanta-nanocode programs into the Dol star-door on Goag Ralus, which immediately would cause a collapse of any wormhole it makes. Over more than the 4 billion years of the existence of Goag Ralus, knowledge of these Golimechoids had reached It, probably from Aquari.
Now the Golimechoid that were left so long ago to struggle on a planet in the Norma arm had since migrated all the way to the Carina arm. They evidently inadvertently ended up in a galactic war with those that inherited the Nephaprican Poa star-door after the great disappearance, and now Golimechoids controlled that precious technology. Meanwhile Goag Ralus had miraculously acquired the Dol star-door with Its knowledge of wormhole technology, similar to a program that Chronolus had developed in the Tze-Doldus star-door in order to teleport that whole planet Urania to his Devaworld along with its orbit. The union of Goag Ralus and Golimechoid, most feared by the Devasuras, had veered close to inevitability. These days the Poa star had long since died, being currently incarnated as a pulsar that rotated every 3 seconds. It shined its gamma ray strobe light into the luminous nebulae that surrounded it as what’s left of a shell of its previously majestic mass. Poa-3 still orbited this pulsar with barely an atmosphere, and an utterly lifeless surface covered the planet’s landscape.
It would be more correct to say the surface of Poa-3 is organically lifeless. The sparkling electrical life of civilization still covered the landscape. The star Poa had become dead, but the star-door planet still existed, and the Golimechoid could exist in almost any environment within an enormous range of temperatures. Poa died, but had now been resurrected with electronic DNA based plant and animal life that were developed by the Golimechoid. The Golimechoids of Poa were highly advanced beings who dwarfed terrestrial life because they advanced technologies that only they understood, which were based on physics advanced from their own understanding of their electric DNA and the chemical fusion powered hearts that animated their bodies. They saved the Poa-3 gate at the time of Poa’s death because so much of their existence had been invested in defending it from Grulmagof civilizations who invested their existence in believing the star-door to be rightfully theirs. The Golimechoid always defeated the Grulmagof of their ultimate prize, but the cost would be to much of their peripheral territory. The highly advanced Golimechoid civilization became more and more isolated to the few light years of space around the Poa star-door. Some Golimechoid moved on to colonize further out in the galaxy, but there remained those whose home was this star-door planet, and they clung to their home.
Even as the star Poa grew into a red giant that threatened to swallow the planet Poa-3, Golimechoid civilization continued to thrive around the incredible temperatures. Eventually even the Golimechoid had to leave the planet, and they figured out a clever way to save the star-door and its planet. As the Golimechoid departed the planet Poa-3 the gravitational pull of the planet had turned into a push by the virtual particle technology of the star-door. Everything fell off of the planet except what had been captured into a counter force generated along the planetary underground electric grid. The orbit of Poa-3 around the star continued in the same direction, but the rotation immediately reversed causing massive devastation to the planet.
Golimechoid civilization became so highly advanced because they only had to understand themselves as the final result of ancient Eagolim genetic craftsmanship. This probably played into the obvious fear that the Devasuras had of them. This became exhibited to the Golimechoid by the fact that for all of their advanced technological development and evolutionary adaptive ability, they still could not extend their life spans much beyond a couple hundred Earth years because of their creator’s intended electric DNA design. The Eagolim who sought out all this god-like knowledge created many incredible things and ultimately they even returned to help the Nephapricans create Devasuras out of themselves. Perhaps Devasuras fear the Golimechoid because they were so much alike. They were both results of similar technologies that made both Devasura and Golimechoid a blend of species that were as much real as artificial.
This species of Poa Golimechoid had been born with a fusion-powered heart that converted energy into mass. They were originally solar powered but had long since been born with an appendage to plug into an artificial energy source. These Golimechoid ate energy and converted it into matter needed to sustain them. They had silvery scales, and looked like anthropomorphized snakes. They had a snake-like body that stood upright. They had two main octopus appendages that served as arms with smaller appendages that came out at the ends to serve as fingers. Along the body were orifice that could evolve appendages for various purposes. They had a single eye that surrounded the head to give them panoramic vision all around them.
The Golimechoid left Poa-3 as the star Poa filled the daytime sky, and evaporated away all the water; turning the darkest part of night into an ambient twilight of dusk followed by a brief dawn that heralded a day that boiled metal. The planet ended up plowing into the flaming plasma of the expanding star with a star-door generated gravitational push instead of a pull. The result was, at first, a massive flaming ring around the star like the plasma streams observed in binary star systems. The result had been that the anti-gravity field protected the planet and accelerated the death of the star Poa. It took only a couple hundred years for barely a super red giant star to throw off its outer mass in a brilliant nova explosion. After that event a pulsar became made out of the collapsed and spent core with a single planet in orbit conveniently pushing away most objects and energy that threatened its annihilation. The reverse gravity virtual particle field that protected the planet had been so effective that the nova explosion almost didn’t even budge the world, although its orbit now became much further away from its original orbit. Eventually the Golimechoid returned to fix the gravitational pull of the planet and live out a quiet peace in this uninhabitable sector of space. The day eventually arrived however, when others came there in the form of Grulmagof treasure hunters that were raised on legends of the star-door. They were there to seek out the ancient indestructible technology, and since then the peace had no longer been quiet.
The Golimechoid named Zlooptoo pondered this history as her solar craft approached the Baba space station that orbited high above Poa-3. She gazed out of the view port at a funnel of nebula that opened into
the spectacular starry night of the Carina arm of Magphoreus. That was the opening in the nebulae where scouts reported that a new Grulmagof armada amassed of incredibly large pyramid shaped virtual particle warp-fusion drive ships that were armed with many hostile capabilities. Once again the probability council would be calculating a response. The Golimechoid have confronted this many times in their persecuted history, but nothing like those giant starships had ever been seen before. Zlooptoo often wondered if obtaining control of this star-door technology had ever been worth it. The answer was that it would be worth it to those who thought so, and she had been a descendent of that decision. The Golimechoid always had an answer, and Zlooptoo thought she just might find one at the Baba station.
The solar vehicle docked with a technological monstrosity that orbited Poa-3 in deep orbit very far away. Zlooptoo stood ready when the exit hatch automatically opened to reveal a well-lit hallway with two Golimechoid security guards who had evolved appendages with stun incapacitators. At least Zlooptoo thought they were just stun incapacitators. She came here to receive a message from the baby’s brain. This had been communicated to the security guard that confronted Zlooptoo. Poa Golimechoids are born speaking a language on a radio frequency. They could learn and speak audible language, but would have to evolve an appendage to do that. Zlooptoo had been permitted admittance to the top-secret space station in deep orbit around Poa-3.
Zlooptoo glided down the corridor gracefully as her snake-like tail curled and spun like a corkscrew. The Golimechoid did this when they were moving rapidly, otherwise the snake leg permitted them to scoot along, kind of like an inchworm. Zlooptoo had been allowed within a well-guarded and locked vault where a giant ball of glowing circuitry hovered in the center of the room. Zlooptoo greeted the ball in the radio language as if she addressed a fellow Golimechoid. She asked how Young Brain had been doing. The ball, evidently called Young Brain, reported back in the language that it had been fine, still evolving new depths of intellect to explore. They talked like old friends as the conversation evolved to the purpose Zlooptoo came there for. She had to deliver a message to the one who would become Young Brain’s Father. Young Brain reported that it had prepared a message for Father, and eagerly awaited its Father’s response to be delivered to it. An appendage extended from the hovering sphere towards Zlooptoo. Zlooptoo had a special receiver appendage that evolved for this since she first had been given the job of courier to the Young Brain project. It extended from right above her right arm appendage and connected with Young Brain. Zlooptoo politely didn’t examine any of the data stored within her. That wasn’t the courier’s business. The Golimechoid and the sphere-shaped brain exchanged polite good-byes, and Zlooptoo promptly returned to her solar vehicle for the long trip back to Poa-3.
The Golimechoid had also learned of this genetic compatibility with the giant being in the core of the galaxy. Quanta-communication technology from the star-door had long since put the Golimechoid species of Poa in contact with the great and mighty Goag Ralus. Some Golimechoid had come to worship Goag Ralus like a god, or at least had put all their faith in Goag Ralus to be a savior who would deliver them from their oppressors. The Grulmagof always seemed to bounce back to their vicious campaign of eradicating the galaxy of Golimechoid life, as if they were assisted by some higher power. Some Golimechoids looked to Goag Ralus to be their higher power who would give them assistance.
The solar vehicle soared into lower orbit with Poa-3 until the lights of thousands of cities began to sparkle on the horizon line. The vehicle slowed down and arced into a straight down decent that zeroed in on a section of the city that surrounded the star-door mountain. The uncreative Golimechoid named this city Star-Door City, although it had obviously been sitting upon the exact spot of the long since extinct ruins of Reva-Tar, the ancient capital of Nephapricus. Zlooptoo’s vehicle docked against a docking hatch on the side of one of the buildings of this city. This had become the Poa-3 side of the Young Brain project. The Golimechoid had been cultivating a brain made out of a program similar to the religion program of the ancient Eagolim. The ancient religion program that guided the ancient Eagolim to the galactic core had really been the brain of Goag Ralus. This had actually been the final secret revealed to the Eagolim Aaragnon by the Doldorian priests so long ago. The long lost religion program had been actually uploaded to the evolving Goag Ralus in order to become the base schematic for a central brain and central ego construct that encompassed a five solar mass self-awareness that reflected Eagolim values. This happened to be the nature of the data that became erased from the Eigalli databanks, which Deliadre had found herself puzzled by. The Eagolim made a brain for Goag Ralus with basically Eagolim values and tendencies, but that couldn’t possibly be the values being cultivated in this Young Brain made by Golimechoids.
Zlooptoo arrived here on schedule for a meeting of fellow Golimechoids that were mostly from places high in government and society, who maintained quanta-communicator contact with Goag Ralus. They had been cultivating a brain for millennia now, to be uploaded to become a child someday destined to evolve as the child of Goag Ralus. Goag Ralus had been fashioning a Golimechoid shaped avatar for the occasion with sex organs that would be capable of performing the copulation. That assumed Goag Ralus met the right Golimechoid woman and all. Among the Golimechoid followers of Goag Ralus were multitudes of willing women that were anxious to become that mother.
Zlooptoo slithered her way through the corridors while obviously knowing where she was going. She seemed in a hurry as if she ran a bit late from her journey to the edge of deep space and back. She entered a crowded domed room, and hurried to the one standing by a quanta-communication device in the middle of the auditorium. For a split second the room blinked brightly every 3 seconds from a view portal above where a night sky blinked into daytime and back to night every 3 seconds because of the planet’s pulsar for a sun. That star no longer powered the Poa star-door. The Golimechoids fed nova debris into massive fusion generators that orbited the pulsar near the star-door planet. Everyone in this room looked forward to the day when a Goag Ralus-like being would also feast on that nova debris. Such a being, they imagined, could easily have a heavily armed Grulmagof war armada for lunch with barely any indigestion.
The Golimechoid that stood near the quanta-communication device extended an appendage toward Zlooptoo who in turn extended her own similar appendage. That Golimechoid would translate this information into the Eigalli light and shape language that they have learned from Goag Ralus. About the time that happened the quanta-communication device turned itself on, and above the room appeared a two-dimensional seven pointed star shaped outline of light that suspended in the air turning from side to side for all in the room to behold. This had been the form Goag Ralus chose for this appearance to the Golimechoid in the room. It crudely represented the actual shape of Goag Ralus, but also kind of appeared like an obvious imitation of what the cosmic being Aquari looked like. The room literally hummed with a silence of anticipation as the seven-pointed star greeted the room in the language of lights and shapes. Most of the Golimechoid in the room read this language fluently. The one who received the Young Brain message from Zlooptoo raised a tentacle from an orifice above the left arm appendage with an object on the end that began also emitting the same Eigalli language of colored light and glowing shapes. He relayed the message from Young Brain who had pleaded to meet and know Its Father. The Young Brain message also begged for help to be delivered from the hostile forces that were gathering outside the Poa nebulae and were currently poised to attack the star-door planet. If it had been an audible language it might have sounded like a whiney child pleading with its Father, but that didn’t seem to convey as well in lights and shapes.
The Poa Golimechoids speak with Goag Ralus.
Goag Ralus responded with lights and shapes of comfort for a child not yet even conceived, not to mention born. The seven pointed star informed th
e room that the quanta-nanocode that had been collapsing the wormhole connections to the Poa star-door all this time were finally now isolated. Goag Ralus told the room that Begalius devised a counter program to guard the Dol star-door from the Trojan quanta-nanocode virus obviously created by very advanced beings indeed. There could be heard a microwave hum of relief at the news. Even if the Grulmagof brought their 10 million-year-old campaign to eradicate the galaxy of Golimechoids to Poa-3 itself, the Golimechoids would still have somewhere to run. By the end of the communications, some of the newer Golimechoid members who didn’t speak Eigalli at first had already analyzed it and evolved appendages that spoke it fairly fluent. Many projected the words for goodbye and farewell when it came time to disconnect the transmission. Goag Ralus recited a special message to be delivered to Young Brain that the central Golimechoid translated into a message, then given to Zlooptoo to take back to Young Brain. Young Brain had become the Golimechoids most precious secret and hope.
As the seven-pointed star image disappeared on Poa-3, Goag Ralus turned off Its quanta-communication device. It appeared in its Eigalli avatar form for the sake of broadcasting the agreed upon language for speaking with the quanta-communication connection. Goag Ralus used an alternate hologram program to appear as the 7-pointed star. Someday soon It would be ready to appear before Its friends as the Golimechoid avatar, but not just yet. It wasn’t sure what Deliadre would think, and knew that Incapricans probably didn’t approve. The radio broadcast language that Golimechoids were born able to speak wouldn’t reach across a quanta-communication’s audio/visual connection. Goag Ralus had now decided that Its sex would be male. After billions of Earth years of trying on all kinds of male and female avatars of thousands of different species of alien He had finally decided on male, and His head became filled with thoughts of a child. He didn’t even consider thoughts of love and sex with whatever Golimechoid female who would become such a mother to produce the catalyst egg with half of the child’s electric chromosomes. Goag Ralus had become a bit obsessed with being the Father of a child these days. Somewhere in the infinite wisdom of Goag Ralus it occurred to ‘Him’ how very female it had been of ‘Him’ to just want to use sex only for the sake of acquiring a baby to nurture. He figured the child would be like Him, wanting to be filled with all life because of the enormous emptiness of uninhabited lands and atmospheres that made up His being, which just waited for inhabitants.
Goag Ralus thought about the Grulmagof who threatened His baby and His Golimechoid friends. As soon as Begalius returned from its repair quest it could use the star-door connection to swallow them with an external wormhole and bring them all here to the galactic core. They couldn’t do any damage to the fully-grown Goag Ralus, and would be forced to become peaceful inhabitants of Him or else perish in the cruel core environment. Goag Ralus calculated that often the hate and hostility of terrestrial beings had been senseless, sometimes driven by an irrational fear, but sometimes by a stubborn bigotry that would not interpret reality any other way. Goag Ralus desired to bring such beings to their senses. It became incomprehensible to Goag Ralus that any would hate Him or Her. It had been decided, at least at that moment, that Goag Ralus would be either a He or She, but no longer an It.