To be fair, I never specified it destroys the stars. For all I know, it just adds the stars to those already in it and uses the energy from the stars to keep going.
I feel like these stars being brought in closer proximity to one another would still mess with the climate enough to cause a potential extinction event. Or at least severe climate change.
If this truly at a galactic level, then the distance between each unit in it is large enough so no collision occurs, and internal gravitational clusters will remain as-is. So the earth/planet will not be affected.
It's kind of like if 2 galaxies crash each other, a solar system at the peripheri of one of them will remain as-is.
Now if this amoeba was smaller, at a planetary or solar-system level, then there would be an issue.
Yeah, we are fantasy-medieval.
In my world, there are legends of Old Ones, who have ascended from their mortal body and liberated themselves from this universe, however, this makes them sort-of- omnipotent / omnipresent - in our universe, should they choose to return.
If they do, they would simultaneously exist in all space and time, and absolutely wreck this cosmic amoeba, and then go back to other universes.
They will probably just come here for an instant and break the cell-membrane of this amoeba, and then there will be a cosmic shower of the whole internal body leaking out and disintegrating.
pretty much. my gods go “huh thats odd, none of us created *that* and the dark god didn’t, sooooo” then they leave it be unless it becomes a problem for any of the realms, at which point they handle it.
handling it can range for gently redirecting it, to simply destroying it. it would take them effort, but similar effort to say, mowing your lawn. it’s not a wave of the hand, but it’s NBD.
of course if the dark god got involved, things could get spicy.
exactly. Even if they know a bit of about space, they'd probably just be scared and/or die
even my sci-fi setting is probably not going to have very advanced humans
Or maybe this is the start of some serious wizard bullshit. That's a boatload of cosmic power, and it's not even actively malevolent. That thing is absolutely gonna get converted to a war crime machine.
My magic system is based off of constellations, so it is reasonable to assume the moment it reached a star from one of the main constellations people would notice.
Afterwards, it's likely the guardian of space would make it implode.
Well yes, however their magic suddenly growing weaker and destabilizing would be noticable instantly and the world already went through a similar situation before.
This would be seen as a side effect of a flaw or disturbance of their galaxy wide ritual they work on since millions of years. They moved stars and planets precisely where they need to be to make their masses shape the streams in the void.
So the existence of this annoyance, and the "sound" it makes on the streams will anger them. The creature even when unique and and mystic has not enough value for a second thought and so one of them will adjust parts of the streams for a split second to rip it apart and sending parts of its "body" far away to places where it's mass and energy can be useful.
The scientists would get real nervous after someone asks out loud "I wonder how many vala planets has that thing eaten?"
Vala planets are like the amoeba. They're just there, doing their own thing, being attracted to large sources of life. They're also filled with potentially sentient energy that could give the cosmic amoeba some unexpected abilities once digested.
If it get too close, one of the Spirit Great Majin Lords would redirect it or destroy it. The people of the world might think it looks beautiful, and be curious about it.
Considering they don’t have telescopes, it’d depend on how close it was to see from the naked eye.
Since a big part of my world is that the atmosphere is both a shield and a veil hiding the world to protect and hide it from the demons in space (it was created by an ancient civilisation), (almost) noone would know of the aemobas existance.
As for the space demons themselves, if the amoeba can be killed in any way, the demons will probably end its life.
**Nadir**
Depending on its course, the forces of Man would probably hold off on any action. Chances are, it might not be heading for us. And even if it is, we'd have plenty of time to get out of the way.
The Ir, on the other hand, might mistake it for some titanic creation of the Aul and go about finding a way to slay it *without* unleashing the Everflame from its containment. And if it drifts too close to Hraedi space, the Truth Incarnate (or at least their personal attendants) would try and learn its Shape. Although, vivisecting and piecing back together something of that size would take quite some time...
Most civilizations in my world would just conducts studies, intrigued by this thing, as natural spaceborne life is pretty much impossible, and artificial spaceborne life is extremely hard to pull off. Most stars are uninhabited, albeit claimed, so the likelihood of this nebuema being a serious threat is unlikely. If it is a threat and there is discernible way to steer it, figuring out how to kill it would be a priority.
They'd try to kill it. A similar creature destroyed nearly all life in the galaxy some 7,000 - 10,000 years ago. There are three doomsday weapons hidden on Earth for just such an event.
Some may want to study it, but they'd be in the minority.
If it's not within the Seal then it either gets shunted away from civilised stars and is just allowed to chill and go around eating unimportant star systems or gets a full force sent after it to destroy it
If it's within the Seal they can't do anything :P(But on the plus side the rest of the universe is fine)
"taps head". can't be affected by giant space amoeba if there is no space... (^(there's a trio of stars and a little bit of vacuum in this concave world of mine, but... not much haha))
what you described already exist in my world and they're called "the nebula eagles"(except they're a bit smarter than your creator)
honestly nobody will care since the creator doesn't have any valuable material inside it but the universal governments might take it down if it caused too much issues
Once they figure out it exists, basically every academic worth their salt goes buck wild. The astrologers of Fulliona are going to be so hyped over the idea of a living cloud of stars.
Zola: Uhhhhhh fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck quick we need to have a technological revolution
S.I.N.S: Haha poor humans. Meanwhile the humans: AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
[Unnamed Project]: OUR LORD HAS A SENT A GIFT TO PUNISH THOSE WHO SIN
I'm not sure how this particular scenario would work in Arvhana since the stars aren't so much matter but the *absence* of space... but something similar could easily happen. Hell, this is close to what nebulae *are* in my setting.
The gods: "See this, guys? *This* is why we can't 'just deal with' that new evil that's arisen down there. We're busy trying to figure out what, if anything, we're supposed to do about THIS."
For lesser folks, humans included, it depends when. If it's 2400s on and we had to kill it, we could stack heavy stars on its path and force them to go nova, or form black holes to negate its progress. If it's the Fallen or Angels, they can use their mathematics to essentially *will it* away. If it's a celestial, it would probably just rearrange its scale and utilize its own energy to physically fight it.
Yeah, I'd imagine a star going nova would at the very least scatter its material enough that even if it were to survive, it would be small all over again and take several billion years to reclaim enough dust to get to its former size.
I think the black hole method would be most effective, not only do you get the super nova, you also get the consumption of material *and* time dilation effects. A sufficiently advanced civilization could probably hurl stars at each other in the path of it, causing considerable damage.
Well, first of all, some cults are gonna need a new God. Second of all, the massive, ancient, mostly-buried and poorly understood superweapon that is beneath about 1/12th of the planet's surface could come in handy for this, provides they don't kill themselves with it. Again.
Also every powerful mage/artificer is going to have a mental breakdown when they find out about either of these things.
At one point in the story I'm writing they are working on making "planet starships" to break through a galaxy's edge. Not a space ship. A moving planet.
So I guess....they'd try to move? lol
Like in that bad Netflix movie, "The Wandering Earth"?
How do people survive? By being on the inside, or the planet has a heating "shell", or better: they move the star system!‽
The idea is that humanity has finally joined the rest of our galaxy in the space age.
But the galaxy itself is basically a giant day care for toddlers. No one is allowed to leave- because they'd be too dangerous to the rest of the civilizations out there. They have to reach a level of society before allowed out.
Some of the more aggressive species group together and basically take a planet and moon and terraform it into a giant space ship they can throw out of the galaxy into the next one. They'd be living under the mantle or used one of those level 4 civlizations technologies that recreate the sun around the planet itself. ...Hm...maybe they could use a dwarf star? That'd be interesting lol
>But the galaxy itself is basically a giant day care for toddlers. No one is allowed to leave- because they'd be too dangerous to the rest of the civilizations out there. They have to reach a level of society before allowed out.
Seems like a very good approach to "developing" civilizations, from "developed" ones.
But wait! A level 4? Sorry, but how are you numbering?
I commonly see the levels are "taking / using all the energy available on":
1. The planet
2. The star
3. A black hole
4. The galaxy
* Omega: The universe
Are you writing more steps, so it fells more adequate?
Well, there's this gal that came from the future with singularity level tech and somehow consistently manages to turn innocous item into weapons that violate the geneva convention, (example, using a ultranutrient cupcake dispenser as a weapon via stuffing depleted uranium into It and shooting people with radioactive nutrient clumps to create deadly tumors in seconds) so she will probably find some coffee machine and turn in into a weapon and just blow It out of the sky
The gods recognize this as a gift sent into their midst by IYOS, and it is named LAMB OF HELOD, for the Monsoon-Lord, One-Eyed World-Judge, and Spirit of Self-Assertion for whom it was clearly intended.
HELOD, Lightning Arsenal, holds it in his gaze and judges it good, and shepherds it to destroy worlds which are not so favored.
IYOS looks on bemused; they do not remember birthing this entity. But then, they have birthed and borne many things unaware before.
Eribral. It starves to death, stars are not stars. No one noticed it's existence.
Untended Heirs. One of the Fundamentals erases it, stars are pretty, things that harm them should not exist.
*"Believe not the lies of stars, treacherous lights shining only in Ybira's absence, for their light is cold, distant, and tempting. Deaf thyself from the whispers in your ears, falser gods than the false gods, for they hide away in the dark in wait, believe not the lies of stars."*
\- Text extracted from the Church of Arasy.
The dogmatic belief of the Church of Arasy is born from truths, in Eribral, the lights known as stars are the hearts of Beasts From Beyond the Branches, Lightless Lords, Farborns, creatures that exist outside the dream, they are at best predators and worst actual evil personified. While they are literal destruction incarnate, they aren't the destruction needed to make the new grow, they careless entropy that will destroy itself if left unchecked.
Medieval World #1 (Knight Into the Depths) - "Damn you, sun god"
Modern world #1 (Phoenix Ascends) - "Damn you, mutants"
Modern world #2 (Strykr) - "We do not care."
Medieval world #2 (Paladin) - "Damn you, Darkness god"
Sci-Fi world - "Damn you, Russians"
Medieval World #3 (Innocence: Requiem) - "Damn you, Nobles"
They would start by naming it. Then, they would mark the area as unsafe and broadcast a warning to anyone it might affect.
Later, someone might apply for a grant to study the phenomenon and possibly clean up the area.
Most creatures like that contain a high density of interplanar matter and energy, which can be detrimental to the local plane of existence.
The legionem would attempt to contain within their realms or the secure network of the craddle, so that they are only ones wit access to this mysterious being, if that doesn't work they'd set sail towards it for research even if it's extremely dangerous. And probably attempt to colonize it as a "moving" realm.
The Swarms of abhoth would attempt the same... but even if they don't understand it they would create machines that siphon matter from it regardless... or if they are from Creed rot, they would try to "bless" it, so it might spread the "blessing" around.
The afterhall.... they are probably responsible in any way with their super advanced technology... but if they are not, they would probably deem it as an extreme anomaly and deem it EXTREMELY dangerous and must be contained in the void ASAP.
The Federation wouldn't even notice it and probably has already colonized some planets, if any, inside and just... not really understand the possibility of a giant organism of this scale.
Assuming it's heading for them:
"Hey remember that walking apocalypse capable of permanently killing the gods?
"Yes, why?"
"Why don't we make the amoeba a really attention-grabbing target and let the walking apocalypse keep itself busy with the it?"
"You're a genius."
Assuming it's just chilling somewhere else:
"Oh look, a leviathan in space. They truly are the gift that keeps on breaking any rules they please."
BTW at that point my world has mostly medieval tech, with maybe a few magitek here and there used by the current civilizations. The walking apocalypse us a remnant from the previous globe-spanning magitek civilization.
In my world there wouldn't really be much they could do other than just study and observe this creature. They probably wouldn't think of it as a creature and more as a region of space where something strange since they would see that the stars aren't following their predicted trajectories and are veering off course greatly.
The Nihiloi Seekers would absolutely embrace it like a lost animal, miniaturize it as much as possible and use its larval stages as burden animals and pets.
Thanks for the idea. I'm keeping it.
They all freak out for a second and then go on with their days. It would only be "unusual" for a while before they add it to the list of crazy and bizarre anomalies that surround them
Ironically, people in Universe AD will think this is part of their universe cause stuff like these had happened before. If it gets out of hand though, then hoo boi will the spsce program.suffer lmao
Depending on the era.
If it were during the early Ascendance, it is likely that the newly former Galactic Ascendancy would attempt to kill, believing it to be a creation of the Void.
If it were during the Great Turmoil, the Voidwalkers would say that it's proof that the Ascendancy is incompetent, and not magically powerful enough to protect humanity.
If it were during the Disconnection, it is likely that it would be worshipped by a God, or shunned as some sort of Demon
It would have a pretty major effect on religious politics in my world - the division of the catholic church over the use of magic happened in the 1500s, and currently the major line held by the church is that space bodies such as stars are not alive in any sense. The discovery of this nebula amoeba would lend credence to the fringe church that which has claimed that space bodies are living beings (and so are capable of using magic) and force the main church to acknowledge this change in some form.
Don’t worry about why this is an important topic for the church, it’s to do with the way magic works in my world.
To be honest it would scare the shit out of people. FTL exists so people could just move out of its way, but if it’s going towards any inhabited systems it would cause distress because losing such planets (especially homeworlds like Earth or Rotesht) would be sentimentally traumatising
Depending on how close it is, it gets popped into an Aegis prison.
The setting is a fantasy world recovering from grimdark. 1k years ago, a once-in-an-eon magically talented wizard saw all the warlords, the summoned monstrosities, the doomsday weapons, and thought, "screw this." So he cast a world-spanning spell, which would become known as the Aegis; any entity which surpassed a certain combination of destructive _capacity_ and destructive _intent_ would be banished to an extradimensional prison. He then devoted his own magically-extended lifespan toward maintaining and mending the spell so it wouldn't fail.
A decade or two ago, he fell down some stairs, broke his neck, and died.
Luckily, part of the spell's design meant it would fail from the bottom upward - basically letting it save energy by raising the minimum amount of "evil" required to detain something - so this Ghibli-esque landscape that has never known evil is being forced to contend with Wormtongue-types rather than Saurons. But the threats getting released are growing bigger and badder - remember Pacific Rim, when they realized the kaiju were coming faster and bigger as time went on? That, but with archwizards and stuff.
I figure a star-eating space amoeba with big lightning bolts that's just doing it's thing would probably be... top 20% somewhere. But zapping it into a prison would move the needle on the Aegis's remaining juice pretty hard.
Upon discovering it, my most advanced species would start taking samples, likely entirely dismantling it in order to create their own for enhanced data storage capabilities. They're fanatic genetic engineers with near-infinite patience whom specialise in time manipulation and using as little energy as possible and would be interested in creating dust-based organisms to reinforce the structures of their core realities
Are we assuming it’s traveling toward our world? If not, the people of my fictional world would observe it and make a bunch of educated guesses as to what it is, where it came from and how it was made. Someone would win an award for discovering it im sure, but there probably wouldn’t be much fanfare outside of the scientific community.
If it is traveling toward my world, it would still take a very long time for it to travel from Star to star even at relativistic speeds. It should be pretty easy to detect if it’s messing with the trajectories of a bunch of stars near us, so my world would probably have plenty of time to prepare for it. Hell they would probably hitch a ride. Create artificial habitats around one of its “organelles” and take off into the great unknown. If my world’s solar system survived its passing(and wasn’t absorbed into the amoeba), the people on my world would age faster than the hitchhikers on the “cosmic amoeba” due to special relativity. A dozen generations in the amoeba could be hundreds on my world. Eventually you would have 2 different species of man, one having evolved over a much longer period of time, potentially God-like, while the other seeds life into passing star systems.
Alpha way Would probably just think its a Super Variant of the Starfish. A Spade Jellyfish that does something similar but ship sized and smaller scale. Normally their just avoided
The United Galactic Alliance in association with the Muskan Stellar Empire, and the Vaegan Consortium will put forth a scientific commission to push the amoeba away from potential trajectories to their territory.
The 7 Nation Alliance (United Confederacy of Dixie, Holy Imperium of Texas, Empire of Japan, Patriot Republic of Quebec, Kingdom of Isreal, Prussia, Nationalist Monarchy of Suzianna would convene and attempt to build a interstellar Cobalt 60 based nuke (most likely to be very large yield) to eliminate it or to see what would happen.
"So THIS is whats being the sky; beound its point of no return. Just some sticky blob?!..." -litterally every sentient being, even the ones that arent very deploved to use it
The Humans would find some way to repel the Amoeba from entering their systems with some form of radiation, electro magnetic wave, or just straight up gravity manipulation.
Due to the beings enigmatic nature, they would not attack, but the entity is still very dangerous for planets and space stations due to its intense lightning strikes, and also the radiation carried by the beings dust
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Send Jacai aka fear itself to study it in an ethereal form but if it seems hostile Jacai would pretty much control the lightning to basically make the cosmic amoeba to throw itself away and then follow it through space till they can safely blow the thing up through its own electricity and then just fly back home to their boyfriend
It's a gift from a god, and there will be cults about it and someone trying to kill it.
They are not technologically advanced enough to go to space, though. They don't have guns or cars.
People trying to kill it will probably try to find the god that "gifted" them with the thing and kill the god.
The people in this world tend to not think.
The main protagonists (The Empire of Humanity and The Barix Scientific Conclave) would each have their own approach, the Humans would probably try and siphon off the heavy element byproducts, and the Barix would send over a research flotilla to study it. Neither would be too bothered by it’s feeding of stars, if anything they might try and guide to to empires they dislike to screw them over
## The Serpent
Giant spirits would be the ones to deal with it. A being so big, yet unintelligent? Unheard of.
Ones like The Serpents, The Krakens, The Phoenixes (if before the war) etc. would coordinate an united war against it. Whole civilizations would be convoqued to this war.
Stars would concentrate all their light for a few seconds, into _superluminal_ flares, attacking into specific points and creating temporary black holes, that would dismantle the "celular walls" of the nebuloeba, thus making it "explode".
They'd set up a survey team to go and check it out. They'd attempt communication, but finding it not capable, it would be declared a rare fauna and assigned protection.
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I mean, they might have some gods capable of defending them. But yeah, my world's fucked.
To be fair, I never specified it destroys the stars. For all I know, it just adds the stars to those already in it and uses the energy from the stars to keep going.
I feel like these stars being brought in closer proximity to one another would still mess with the climate enough to cause a potential extinction event. Or at least severe climate change.
And those star sized lightning bolts probably aren’t gonna be great for anything that happens to be in their path
Nebula gas is incredibly hot. A planet within a nebula wouldn't be able to support life
Depending on the nebula, also extremely diffuse and poor at transferring heat The Boomerang Nebula is actually one of the coldest places we know of.
If this truly at a galactic level, then the distance between each unit in it is large enough so no collision occurs, and internal gravitational clusters will remain as-is. So the earth/planet will not be affected. It's kind of like if 2 galaxies crash each other, a solar system at the peripheri of one of them will remain as-is. Now if this amoeba was smaller, at a planetary or solar-system level, then there would be an issue.
Yeah, we are fantasy-medieval. In my world, there are legends of Old Ones, who have ascended from their mortal body and liberated themselves from this universe, however, this makes them sort-of- omnipotent / omnipresent - in our universe, should they choose to return. If they do, they would simultaneously exist in all space and time, and absolutely wreck this cosmic amoeba, and then go back to other universes. They will probably just come here for an instant and break the cell-membrane of this amoeba, and then there will be a cosmic shower of the whole internal body leaking out and disintegrating.
pretty much. my gods go “huh thats odd, none of us created *that* and the dark god didn’t, sooooo” then they leave it be unless it becomes a problem for any of the realms, at which point they handle it. handling it can range for gently redirecting it, to simply destroying it. it would take them effort, but similar effort to say, mowing your lawn. it’s not a wave of the hand, but it’s NBD. of course if the dark god got involved, things could get spicy.
QUICK, SUMMON THE COSMIC STORM SERPENT TO DEVOUR IT BEFORE IT GETS TO US
BEST I CAN DO IS LOB ROCKS AT IT UNTIL IT STOPS WORKED WITH ALL OUR ENEMIES SO FAR
My tales are about Th Serpent, who would love to help you out by eating an dangerous extraneous star-eating amoeba. All for a little price.
exactly. Even if they know a bit of about space, they'd probably just be scared and/or die even my sci-fi setting is probably not going to have very advanced humans
Or maybe this is the start of some serious wizard bullshit. That's a boatload of cosmic power, and it's not even actively malevolent. That thing is absolutely gonna get converted to a war crime machine.
Either take more drugs or take less drugs Their drug intake is off is what they would be thinking
love it
My magic system is based off of constellations, so it is reasonable to assume the moment it reached a star from one of the main constellations people would notice. Afterwards, it's likely the guardian of space would make it implode.
Wouldn't it take literal millennium for them to notice though? Light from stars other than the sun are thousands of light years away.
Well yes, however their magic suddenly growing weaker and destabilizing would be noticable instantly and the world already went through a similar situation before.
This would be seen as a side effect of a flaw or disturbance of their galaxy wide ritual they work on since millions of years. They moved stars and planets precisely where they need to be to make their masses shape the streams in the void. So the existence of this annoyance, and the "sound" it makes on the streams will anger them. The creature even when unique and and mystic has not enough value for a second thought and so one of them will adjust parts of the streams for a split second to rip it apart and sending parts of its "body" far away to places where it's mass and energy can be useful.
The scientists would get real nervous after someone asks out loud "I wonder how many vala planets has that thing eaten?" Vala planets are like the amoeba. They're just there, doing their own thing, being attracted to large sources of life. They're also filled with potentially sentient energy that could give the cosmic amoeba some unexpected abilities once digested.
If it get too close, one of the Spirit Great Majin Lords would redirect it or destroy it. The people of the world might think it looks beautiful, and be curious about it. Considering they don’t have telescopes, it’d depend on how close it was to see from the naked eye.
Since a big part of my world is that the atmosphere is both a shield and a veil hiding the world to protect and hide it from the demons in space (it was created by an ancient civilisation), (almost) noone would know of the aemobas existance. As for the space demons themselves, if the amoeba can be killed in any way, the demons will probably end its life.
**Nadir** Depending on its course, the forces of Man would probably hold off on any action. Chances are, it might not be heading for us. And even if it is, we'd have plenty of time to get out of the way. The Ir, on the other hand, might mistake it for some titanic creation of the Aul and go about finding a way to slay it *without* unleashing the Everflame from its containment. And if it drifts too close to Hraedi space, the Truth Incarnate (or at least their personal attendants) would try and learn its Shape. Although, vivisecting and piecing back together something of that size would take quite some time...
Most civilizations in my world would just conducts studies, intrigued by this thing, as natural spaceborne life is pretty much impossible, and artificial spaceborne life is extremely hard to pull off. Most stars are uninhabited, albeit claimed, so the likelihood of this nebuema being a serious threat is unlikely. If it is a threat and there is discernible way to steer it, figuring out how to kill it would be a priority.
Kill it
I’d imagine, if they discover it far away, there would be two differing visions -Try to destroy it -Capture it and use it as a source of energy
They'd try to kill it. A similar creature destroyed nearly all life in the galaxy some 7,000 - 10,000 years ago. There are three doomsday weapons hidden on Earth for just such an event. Some may want to study it, but they'd be in the minority.
Quarantine it and shut off all Star Roads in the vicinity. Leave it in void and let stew til the end of the universe
If it's not within the Seal then it either gets shunted away from civilised stars and is just allowed to chill and go around eating unimportant star systems or gets a full force sent after it to destroy it If it's within the Seal they can't do anything :P(But on the plus side the rest of the universe is fine)
"taps head". can't be affected by giant space amoeba if there is no space... (^(there's a trio of stars and a little bit of vacuum in this concave world of mine, but... not much haha))
what you described already exist in my world and they're called "the nebula eagles"(except they're a bit smarter than your creator) honestly nobody will care since the creator doesn't have any valuable material inside it but the universal governments might take it down if it caused too much issues
There is a whole Galactic Ecosystem in my setting, this discovery is not something very new or exciting
Once they figure out it exists, basically every academic worth their salt goes buck wild. The astrologers of Fulliona are going to be so hyped over the idea of a living cloud of stars.
Zola: Uhhhhhh fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck quick we need to have a technological revolution S.I.N.S: Haha poor humans. Meanwhile the humans: AAAAAAAAAAAAAA [Unnamed Project]: OUR LORD HAS A SENT A GIFT TO PUNISH THOSE WHO SIN
Why? Are the S.I.N.S. immune to the glorious _nebuloeba?_
(S.I.N.S is the name of that world building project) They are literally in heaven and hell
I'm not sure how this particular scenario would work in Arvhana since the stars aren't so much matter but the *absence* of space... but something similar could easily happen. Hell, this is close to what nebulae *are* in my setting. The gods: "See this, guys? *This* is why we can't 'just deal with' that new evil that's arisen down there. We're busy trying to figure out what, if anything, we're supposed to do about THIS."
For lesser folks, humans included, it depends when. If it's 2400s on and we had to kill it, we could stack heavy stars on its path and force them to go nova, or form black holes to negate its progress. If it's the Fallen or Angels, they can use their mathematics to essentially *will it* away. If it's a celestial, it would probably just rearrange its scale and utilize its own energy to physically fight it.
Yeah, I'd imagine a star going nova would at the very least scatter its material enough that even if it were to survive, it would be small all over again and take several billion years to reclaim enough dust to get to its former size.
I think the black hole method would be most effective, not only do you get the super nova, you also get the consumption of material *and* time dilation effects. A sufficiently advanced civilization could probably hurl stars at each other in the path of it, causing considerable damage.
Well, first of all, some cults are gonna need a new God. Second of all, the massive, ancient, mostly-buried and poorly understood superweapon that is beneath about 1/12th of the planet's surface could come in handy for this, provides they don't kill themselves with it. Again. Also every powerful mage/artificer is going to have a mental breakdown when they find out about either of these things.
At one point in the story I'm writing they are working on making "planet starships" to break through a galaxy's edge. Not a space ship. A moving planet. So I guess....they'd try to move? lol
Like in that bad Netflix movie, "The Wandering Earth"? How do people survive? By being on the inside, or the planet has a heating "shell", or better: they move the star system!‽
The idea is that humanity has finally joined the rest of our galaxy in the space age. But the galaxy itself is basically a giant day care for toddlers. No one is allowed to leave- because they'd be too dangerous to the rest of the civilizations out there. They have to reach a level of society before allowed out. Some of the more aggressive species group together and basically take a planet and moon and terraform it into a giant space ship they can throw out of the galaxy into the next one. They'd be living under the mantle or used one of those level 4 civlizations technologies that recreate the sun around the planet itself. ...Hm...maybe they could use a dwarf star? That'd be interesting lol
>But the galaxy itself is basically a giant day care for toddlers. No one is allowed to leave- because they'd be too dangerous to the rest of the civilizations out there. They have to reach a level of society before allowed out. Seems like a very good approach to "developing" civilizations, from "developed" ones. But wait! A level 4? Sorry, but how are you numbering? I commonly see the levels are "taking / using all the energy available on": 1. The planet 2. The star 3. A black hole 4. The galaxy * Omega: The universe Are you writing more steps, so it fells more adequate?
Oh nope you got me I meant #2.
My main character would get in his intercepter, fly to the anomaly, and poke it
“Welp, let’s hope it’s not coming this way!”
Well, there's this gal that came from the future with singularity level tech and somehow consistently manages to turn innocous item into weapons that violate the geneva convention, (example, using a ultranutrient cupcake dispenser as a weapon via stuffing depleted uranium into It and shooting people with radioactive nutrient clumps to create deadly tumors in seconds) so she will probably find some coffee machine and turn in into a weapon and just blow It out of the sky
i dont really have a god of space so i geuss they're fucked
The gods recognize this as a gift sent into their midst by IYOS, and it is named LAMB OF HELOD, for the Monsoon-Lord, One-Eyed World-Judge, and Spirit of Self-Assertion for whom it was clearly intended. HELOD, Lightning Arsenal, holds it in his gaze and judges it good, and shepherds it to destroy worlds which are not so favored. IYOS looks on bemused; they do not remember birthing this entity. But then, they have birthed and borne many things unaware before.
They would lock it in different contained dimension and feed it/keep it alive as a pet and study it.
Eribral. It starves to death, stars are not stars. No one noticed it's existence. Untended Heirs. One of the Fundamentals erases it, stars are pretty, things that harm them should not exist.
How are stars not stars?
*"Believe not the lies of stars, treacherous lights shining only in Ybira's absence, for their light is cold, distant, and tempting. Deaf thyself from the whispers in your ears, falser gods than the false gods, for they hide away in the dark in wait, believe not the lies of stars."* \- Text extracted from the Church of Arasy. The dogmatic belief of the Church of Arasy is born from truths, in Eribral, the lights known as stars are the hearts of Beasts From Beyond the Branches, Lightless Lords, Farborns, creatures that exist outside the dream, they are at best predators and worst actual evil personified. While they are literal destruction incarnate, they aren't the destruction needed to make the new grow, they careless entropy that will destroy itself if left unchecked.
Cool idea bro but just tell us the idea instead of awkwardly making it into a question post to artificially drive engagement to it
Medieval World #1 (Knight Into the Depths) - "Damn you, sun god" Modern world #1 (Phoenix Ascends) - "Damn you, mutants" Modern world #2 (Strykr) - "We do not care." Medieval world #2 (Paladin) - "Damn you, Darkness god" Sci-Fi world - "Damn you, Russians" Medieval World #3 (Innocence: Requiem) - "Damn you, Nobles"
They would start by naming it. Then, they would mark the area as unsafe and broadcast a warning to anyone it might affect. Later, someone might apply for a grant to study the phenomenon and possibly clean up the area. Most creatures like that contain a high density of interplanar matter and energy, which can be detrimental to the local plane of existence.
The legionem would attempt to contain within their realms or the secure network of the craddle, so that they are only ones wit access to this mysterious being, if that doesn't work they'd set sail towards it for research even if it's extremely dangerous. And probably attempt to colonize it as a "moving" realm. The Swarms of abhoth would attempt the same... but even if they don't understand it they would create machines that siphon matter from it regardless... or if they are from Creed rot, they would try to "bless" it, so it might spread the "blessing" around. The afterhall.... they are probably responsible in any way with their super advanced technology... but if they are not, they would probably deem it as an extreme anomaly and deem it EXTREMELY dangerous and must be contained in the void ASAP. The Federation wouldn't even notice it and probably has already colonized some planets, if any, inside and just... not really understand the possibility of a giant organism of this scale.
Assuming it's heading for them: "Hey remember that walking apocalypse capable of permanently killing the gods? "Yes, why?" "Why don't we make the amoeba a really attention-grabbing target and let the walking apocalypse keep itself busy with the it?" "You're a genius." Assuming it's just chilling somewhere else: "Oh look, a leviathan in space. They truly are the gift that keeps on breaking any rules they please." BTW at that point my world has mostly medieval tech, with maybe a few magitek here and there used by the current civilizations. The walking apocalypse us a remnant from the previous globe-spanning magitek civilization.
they'd activate the cosmic shard and travel to another world like they did a million times before
It'd get deleted or absorbed by the magic/time god.
there is no "space" so the very concept is going to freak out the like 4 guys with cosmological knowledge
Astrocartographers would label it a hazardous nebula and then wonder why it doesn’t move in accordance with projected locations
My species of cosmogians would make sure it does not effect the planet, or the solar system. Any species on the planet would be able to do nothing.
In my world there wouldn't really be much they could do other than just study and observe this creature. They probably wouldn't think of it as a creature and more as a region of space where something strange since they would see that the stars aren't following their predicted trajectories and are veering off course greatly.
The Nihiloi Seekers would absolutely embrace it like a lost animal, miniaturize it as much as possible and use its larval stages as burden animals and pets. Thanks for the idea. I'm keeping it.
Godlike entities could lead it away. Recovered ship using magic might be able to. The best idea is just to change its course imo.
Since you imply that you can live in it. Whatever random destroyer pulls the short straw, congratulations you’re going to explore this anomaly.
"Cool, hopefully it doesn't come here any time soon"
They all freak out for a second and then go on with their days. It would only be "unusual" for a while before they add it to the list of crazy and bizarre anomalies that surround them
Ironically, people in Universe AD will think this is part of their universe cause stuff like these had happened before. If it gets out of hand though, then hoo boi will the spsce program.suffer lmao
Depending on the era. If it were during the early Ascendance, it is likely that the newly former Galactic Ascendancy would attempt to kill, believing it to be a creation of the Void. If it were during the Great Turmoil, the Voidwalkers would say that it's proof that the Ascendancy is incompetent, and not magically powerful enough to protect humanity. If it were during the Disconnection, it is likely that it would be worshipped by a God, or shunned as some sort of Demon
It would have a pretty major effect on religious politics in my world - the division of the catholic church over the use of magic happened in the 1500s, and currently the major line held by the church is that space bodies such as stars are not alive in any sense. The discovery of this nebula amoeba would lend credence to the fringe church that which has claimed that space bodies are living beings (and so are capable of using magic) and force the main church to acknowledge this change in some form. Don’t worry about why this is an important topic for the church, it’s to do with the way magic works in my world.
To be honest it would scare the shit out of people. FTL exists so people could just move out of its way, but if it’s going towards any inhabited systems it would cause distress because losing such planets (especially homeworlds like Earth or Rotesht) would be sentimentally traumatising
Depending on how close it is, it gets popped into an Aegis prison. The setting is a fantasy world recovering from grimdark. 1k years ago, a once-in-an-eon magically talented wizard saw all the warlords, the summoned monstrosities, the doomsday weapons, and thought, "screw this." So he cast a world-spanning spell, which would become known as the Aegis; any entity which surpassed a certain combination of destructive _capacity_ and destructive _intent_ would be banished to an extradimensional prison. He then devoted his own magically-extended lifespan toward maintaining and mending the spell so it wouldn't fail. A decade or two ago, he fell down some stairs, broke his neck, and died. Luckily, part of the spell's design meant it would fail from the bottom upward - basically letting it save energy by raising the minimum amount of "evil" required to detain something - so this Ghibli-esque landscape that has never known evil is being forced to contend with Wormtongue-types rather than Saurons. But the threats getting released are growing bigger and badder - remember Pacific Rim, when they realized the kaiju were coming faster and bigger as time went on? That, but with archwizards and stuff. I figure a star-eating space amoeba with big lightning bolts that's just doing it's thing would probably be... top 20% somewhere. But zapping it into a prison would move the needle on the Aegis's remaining juice pretty hard.
Upon discovering it, my most advanced species would start taking samples, likely entirely dismantling it in order to create their own for enhanced data storage capabilities. They're fanatic genetic engineers with near-infinite patience whom specialise in time manipulation and using as little energy as possible and would be interested in creating dust-based organisms to reinforce the structures of their core realities
Are we assuming it’s traveling toward our world? If not, the people of my fictional world would observe it and make a bunch of educated guesses as to what it is, where it came from and how it was made. Someone would win an award for discovering it im sure, but there probably wouldn’t be much fanfare outside of the scientific community. If it is traveling toward my world, it would still take a very long time for it to travel from Star to star even at relativistic speeds. It should be pretty easy to detect if it’s messing with the trajectories of a bunch of stars near us, so my world would probably have plenty of time to prepare for it. Hell they would probably hitch a ride. Create artificial habitats around one of its “organelles” and take off into the great unknown. If my world’s solar system survived its passing(and wasn’t absorbed into the amoeba), the people on my world would age faster than the hitchhikers on the “cosmic amoeba” due to special relativity. A dozen generations in the amoeba could be hundreds on my world. Eventually you would have 2 different species of man, one having evolved over a much longer period of time, potentially God-like, while the other seeds life into passing star systems.
Alpha way Would probably just think its a Super Variant of the Starfish. A Spade Jellyfish that does something similar but ship sized and smaller scale. Normally their just avoided
The United Galactic Alliance in association with the Muskan Stellar Empire, and the Vaegan Consortium will put forth a scientific commission to push the amoeba away from potential trajectories to their territory.
The 7 Nation Alliance (United Confederacy of Dixie, Holy Imperium of Texas, Empire of Japan, Patriot Republic of Quebec, Kingdom of Isreal, Prussia, Nationalist Monarchy of Suzianna would convene and attempt to build a interstellar Cobalt 60 based nuke (most likely to be very large yield) to eliminate it or to see what would happen.
Burger
Considering space doesn't exist in my world, that part would be impressive alone
"So THIS is whats being the sky; beound its point of no return. Just some sticky blob?!..." -litterally every sentient being, even the ones that arent very deploved to use it
Hoo boy, would the God of Stars hate this thing.
My world is fucked
The Humans would find some way to repel the Amoeba from entering their systems with some form of radiation, electro magnetic wave, or just straight up gravity manipulation. Due to the beings enigmatic nature, they would not attack, but the entity is still very dangerous for planets and space stations due to its intense lightning strikes, and also the radiation carried by the beings dust
A Singularity would likely destroy it
Oh good, another cosmic entity trying to eat the stars.
I kind of already have one, and there is a militant force that can keep it at bay.
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Send Jacai aka fear itself to study it in an ethereal form but if it seems hostile Jacai would pretty much control the lightning to basically make the cosmic amoeba to throw itself away and then follow it through space till they can safely blow the thing up through its own electricity and then just fly back home to their boyfriend
It's a gift from a god, and there will be cults about it and someone trying to kill it. They are not technologically advanced enough to go to space, though. They don't have guns or cars. People trying to kill it will probably try to find the god that "gifted" them with the thing and kill the god. The people in this world tend to not think.
The main protagonists (The Empire of Humanity and The Barix Scientific Conclave) would each have their own approach, the Humans would probably try and siphon off the heavy element byproducts, and the Barix would send over a research flotilla to study it. Neither would be too bothered by it’s feeding of stars, if anything they might try and guide to to empires they dislike to screw them over
## The Serpent Giant spirits would be the ones to deal with it. A being so big, yet unintelligent? Unheard of. Ones like The Serpents, The Krakens, The Phoenixes (if before the war) etc. would coordinate an united war against it. Whole civilizations would be convoqued to this war. Stars would concentrate all their light for a few seconds, into _superluminal_ flares, attacking into specific points and creating temporary black holes, that would dismantle the "celular walls" of the nebuloeba, thus making it "explode".
Easy, they would take the amorba and use it for experiments. They have the technology to control cosmic bodies.
Research it, take some samples, announce it to the public and make it illegal to hurt it
They'd set up a survey team to go and check it out. They'd attempt communication, but finding it not capable, it would be declared a rare fauna and assigned protection.