Aliens Among US!
THE THOAN
While experimenting with various methods to repair the time continuum and fuse the ever burgeoning amount of alternate universes, the Ancients discover a method of creating Pocket Universes. Using sophisticated matter/energy conversion technologies and technologies based on quantum mechanics, the Ancients begin creating pocket universes which will serve as laboratories for highly dangerous experiments to be carried out without endangering the Primary Universe or the Alternate Universes. The earliest of the Universes are scale models of the Ancients homeplanet and its solar system, that of Sol 3.
In their quest for immortality the Ancients created a pocket universe in which artificial energy beings could be created and studied. This is the Universe known as the Farmerian Oz Universe. They later abandoned this Universe but did not destroy it because it contained sentient life.
As their technique became more sophisticated they began creating pocket universes based on popular ancient works of fiction, among them were the Burroughs Universe, the Oz Universe etc.Approximately 900, 000 years in the past The Preservers discovered a dormant pocket universe created by the Ancients designed to study human evolution and cultural development. The Ancients were after all practically immortal and fascinated by the human species, this may have been the equivalent of an antfarm. After switching it on, the Preservers left. This is the home universe of the Thoan. who will one day discover a method of creating pocket universes themselves
Although the experiment had been set up so that the human populations would originate in the same areas the culture developed in a quite different manner.
When the Thoan discover, by three attempts at interstellar travel, that they live in an artificial universe it shatters their spirit, causing massive trauma. A quarter of the population dies in the next fifty years through warfare, suicides and dissolute living. Various internecine wars further depopulate the population of the Thoan world. The population is further reduced when a various life extension methods are discovered.The Immortal Thoan civilization becomes quite stagnant, changing barely at all for nearly five hundred thousand years. They successfully develop systems for terraforming the nearby planets, matter-energy transformation, great strides in genetic restructuring and nanotechnology. They create worlds in their solar system and finally while attempting to discover the nature of their universe the Thoan stumble onto a method of traveling to Alternate Universes.
For some reason the easiest ones to reach are those that developed radically different from their own universe. They begin conquering Alternate Universes, enslaving alien species. Approximately 25,000 -30,000 years before the present era, they arrived at a reality controlled by The Thokina, another alternate universes spanning race.
The prolonged multiversal war nearly wiped out both species.
The Thokina were reduced to one individual who was kept imprisoned for millennia and the Thoan were reduced to some 30,000 individuals. That is the official Thoan history, in reality the Thokina forced the Thoan to retreat to their home universe and destroyed the Thoan’s technology for traveling to alternate universes. The Thokina left guards behind to insure the Thoan did not regain multiversal travel.
A few years after the war the Thoan rose up and killed the Thokina Guards, except for one who was placed in protective custody. Kickaha later met the remaining Thokina Guard Kruuz as will be related further down.
(As a sidebar: During the war, A squad of Thoan soldiers found themselves stranded on Earth, the true Earth, having followed a Thokina patrol into a decoy gate. The Thoan are equipped with skimmers, beamer weapons and personal e-m converters. They set themselves up as Gods. Among the tribes ruled by the Three, they are considered demons. History will remember them dimly as the Titans.
The Thoan become aware that the Three do not age. To demonstrate their power over them, they capture them and subject them to the rite of abasement. The rite involves castration and cannibalism. The Three and their tribes are enslaved. Although it takes several hundred years, the Three overthrow the Thoans and kill them. They do however adopt the rite of abasement. )
After the war the Thoan tried to regain the ability to travel the multiverse and in doing so discovered how to create pocket universes.
Approximately 18,000 years before the current era, the Thoan, using all of the remaining technology and science at their command create two pocket universes that are exact copies of theirs. The animals and human populations are bioengineered from living and extinct DNA
Red Orc, the scientist in charge of the project is awarded Guardianship of the two worlds, he becomes known as the Lord of Two Worlds
Three thousand years later the Thoan embark on a massive universe building spree, each Thoan desiring to be Lord of their own universe. Although the life expansion techniques work very well, the Thoan still age, albeit exceeding slowly. In their quest for absolute immortality, the Thoan accidentally create artificial intelligence, the Black Bellers. A group of Thoans that call themselves the Ethicals successfully petition for the Black Bellers to be given a chance a sentient life.
The Black Bellers consciousness are transferred into the minds of artificially created humans whose consciousness was never allowed to develop. The Black Bellers eventually rebel, taking over several pocket universe until they are defeated and are shut into a triple walled universe.
Shortly after the Black Beller War, many of the Thoan begin a complex game that involves conquering other pocket universes and trapping fellow Thoans in worlds designed to endlessly torture captive Thoans. Especially those Ethicals that survived the Black Beller War.As a final punishment abourt 11,000 years Before the Present era, the last surviving group of ethicals are placed in a world that consists of small tropical islands surrounded by giant predatory aquatic and amphibian life.
Thoan Lord Jadawin builds his World of Tiers and begins populating it with specimens stolen from Red Orc’s two worlds. He will later become fascinated by the one of the two earths and steal many ideas and stock from it.
Around 5,000 BC, Red Orc, Thoan Lord of the Two Earths, discovers by accident the true Earth. After initial exploration, he also discovers traces of extraterrestrial life, specifically the Goa'uld. Not wishing for the Thoans to be exposed to this threat, he keeps the location of the true Earth a secret. However, he uses resources and peoples from the true earth for his two worlds. As a social experiment, he guides one of his worlds to follow a path almost identical to the history of the true earth.
Sometime around the first century Red Orc's parallel earth suffers a virulent plague that kills 90 percent of its population. His ego will not allow for any failure and so quietly begins a deception. since the only access into the parallel earths is through a gate, Red Orc changes the frequency of all the parallel earth's gates to that of the true earth, passing it off as his creation.
Shortly after this Red Orc is killed by a distant relative of his also known as Orc. This Orc never knows that this planet is the true Earth, although he is surprised that the previous Red Orc did not allow his leblabbiy to have the life extension treatments. He is fascinated by the short life spans and and subsequent rapid pace of his newly acquired Earths and so continues with this experiment. He eventually comes to believe that he was the creator of both of the Earths.
Red Orc allowed his two Earth's to develop naturally, monitoring but not really interfering. When he heard reports that there was extraterrestial influences at work in the world, he dismissed them as fantasies (knowing that there were not other worlds beyond the solar system) or as plots by other Lords to wrest control of the Earth from him. He let these run their course as well, enjoying prospect of a game.
When Red Orc bores of the Two Earths he takes over the universes of others.
Around 1918, Jadawin is stranded on the true Earth, bereft of memories. He had also the longevity treatments in his system neutralized for he aged as a normal human being of Earth. He eventually found his way back to the World of Tiers with the help of an Earthman who had accidently been transported and stranded on the World of Tiers. Jadawin regains his memory but is a changed man. He is forced to flee from the World of Tiers when the Black Bellers return and invade his palace. Returning to Earth, he was at least in 1970 still residing there.In 1945, a supposedly native (there are suspicions that he may have been part Thoan) Earthman with strong Wold Newton genetic ties was accidentally transferred to the World of Tiers. Paul Janus Finnegan became renown through the Thoan Universes as the Slayer of the Black Bellers and the Killer of Lords. He was respected for his trickery and ruthlessness yet despised for being a leblabbiy. After several adventures in which he was able to gain the love of a female Lord, he ended up in a fierce game with Red Orc for control of all of the Thoan Universes.
In the course of this he meets the last Thokina or the last in the Thoan universes anyway. Kruuz was throughly conditioned by Red Orc to believe in the Thoan history of the multiversal war and to be a last ditch weapon for Red Orc, to destroy all the Thoan Universes. However, Kruuz' hatred for Red Orc overcame his conditioning enough to try and kill him prior to destroying all of the Universes.
For more details read, Philip Jose Farmer's Maker of Universes, Gates of Creation, A Private Cosmos, Behind the Walls of Terra, The Lavalite World, Red Orc's Rage and More Than Fire.
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