A Starcraft FF:An ancient Reborn

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Prologue: Rise of the Xel?Naga


The Clan Wars had been about the Xel?Naga and their power within the stars. It was a devastating war and one in which every man, woman and child where at risk. This massively planned war included all of the Xel?Nagan colonies that had been scattered throughout the sectors and yet not a single one had made it through unscathed. Diseases were unleashed upon the myriad colonies so that no one colony escaped the horrid casualties of war. This war continued for exactly a decade, until the Xel?Naga race had all but wiped itself out. Battered and broken, these psionically-attuned creatures had no choice but to end the war lest it destroy all of the remaining Xel?Naga throughout the galaxy. Even that was not enough to save such a doomed race from almost near complete and utter annihilation. The only survivors were situated on the ancient and almost long forgotten planet, which they called the Homeworld. Their planet polluted and defiled, the Xel?Nagan people had no choice but to except the fact that they had so willingly allowed the extinction of their own kind, through their actions and attempts to further their own goals. Everyone had been physical prepared for the day when all Xel?Naga would no longer exist but not one person had known that help would come in the form of something much greater, alien and even terrifying at that. Even as the Xel?Nagan numbers dwindled down to its last few hundred thousands, these new people came down in the magnificent ships, all of which were much faster and much more powerful than those that the Xel?Naga had used. However, by now, all the Xel?Nagan ships were nothing more than twisted frames of rubble since they had been forced to abandon them during the crash that had changed everything. At first the Xel?Naga noticed a strange sign within the air, comets of fire streaking across the heavens. At first they were not quick to accept their saviors for with their arrival had followed feelings of fear and even hatred.

Something about these new arrivals set off a major warning in all the colonists? heads but even that was not enough to stop what would happen next. Eventually, these beings made their first open approach and were granted with no hostility except for fear and perhaps even suspicion. No one was sure what they wanted with these pathetic remnants of a race that had once had a chance at greatness but had fallen from grace, and yet no one was sure what to do about them. Fortunately, these beings were not hostile towards them and were more than willing to except the fact that these lesser creatures would forever treat them as though they were enemy turncoats until they could prove themselves. Within days of their arrival, these aliens set about the task of helping those less fortunate in rebuilding what little remained of their ancient home. These aliens, who had announced themselves as being the Iyshari, were millions of years more technologically advanced than the Xel?Naga might ever hope to be and were willing to share what they knew in return for something so little that the humans agreed almost instantly. All that the Iyshari wanted from these simple creatures was to help them in return with a small little problem but why would such an advanced race want help with a situation that they could probably find the answer to? It was because despite the fact that Iyshari were highly advanced, their bodies were not adapted to fighting nor to the psionics that the Xel?Naga used and as thus, they relied on their defensive technology to protect them from harm. Even worse was the fact that an ancient enemy, whose name no Iyshari would speak, had all but wiped out the entire population of every single world except for the last group of Iyshari, the ones that had landed on the Homeworld in search of help and offering untold treasures in return.

It was a tale that had chilled the hearts of many at the prospect of there being even more intelligent life in the universe and that some might be utterly hostile towards the Xel?Naga as a whole. The Iyshari, who had managed to escape the last and final assault, told them of how they had landed on this planet. Apparently the Iyshari had lived for many millennia in their highly evolved and advanced technological state without meeting any other races in their sector of the universe except for the ones that they had helped, none of which were hostile in any way, having regarded them as deities with mystical powers over the world and reality. That was until the Khaze showed up, which the Iyshari explained were beings of terror and destruction who fed on the energies of those they encountered. These entities had attacked and destroyed every single one of their planets and colonies, seemingly unaffected by the technology that the Iyshari used. Apparently, these otherworldly beings were almost ethereal in nature and possessed the most dreaded ability of all. The Khaze, who were ancient entities by even Iyshari standards, could take the life force out of their enemies in the form of something the Xel?Naga religion followers might call a soul or spirit and would devour them, using them to sustain their own existence. Thus the Iyshari had been forced to leave their ancient homes in order to seek out potentially new and ultimately friendly aid. That was also why they had chosen the Xel?Naga for a new alliance, because of the fact that these people were used to and also seemed to excel in war. For their help and technology, the Iyshari wanted the Xel?Naga to help them win the war. And so it was on that day that the Alliance was created in the hopes of defeating the Khaze.

Decades had passed since the Clan Wars and the Xel?Nagan home world had been transformed into a bustling civilization once more, full of advanced technologies and limitless potential. Due to the fact that most of the survivors had been of non-psionic origin, the psions of the Xel?Naga had taken up the mantle of world leaders, though the others did not complain under their rule since most were worried about whether the Khaze would find their new civilization sooner or later. So many things happened in so little time as the Xel?Naga reached a state of technological advancement that could not be reached within even the next couple of centuries. Eventually the Xel?Naga, along with their Iyshari counterparts, expanded into the colonies that the Homeworld had originally destroyed or abandoned and before long, they were once more a dominant force in the sector. That was until the terrible and sudden attack on one of the outer worlds, which proved that the Khaze did indeed exist and were all but friendly. Even with their advancements, both races had to retreat in order to survive but miraculously, the Khaze had long since disappeared. Despite this fact, the Iyshari knew that their ancient enemies would be back and cautioned the Xel?Naga to develop a larger army as fast as they could. Though the Xel?Naga did not like to fight they knew that the time would eventually come when war was no longer needed, as they had seen with their alien counterparts, the Iyshari. All seemed to be going well for the most part until the day when their history changed forever came to them.

Eventually the Xel?Naga and the Iyshari were forced to confront the deadly knew enemy that had wiped out all of the life in the sector as a compensation for lack of food. Eventually the Xel?Naga developed, by themselves miraculously, a type of energy-based weaponry that not even the Khaze could withstand. These sanctions, which they deemed as the first Xel?Nagan temples, used the energy of the Khaze themselves, stored within crystals which would later become known as Khaydarin crystals after the first three letters of their enemy?s name. These crystals would power these ancient relics so that it could pierce the almost ethereal entities that lurked so close to their beloved home. The attack was a success and in only a couple of months, the Xel?Naga had succeeded in wiping out nearly all of the Khaze or so they thought. Only a few had managed to retreat and even then, these creatures were eradicated by the Xel?Nagan star fighters, which cut them down like a sickle might a bunch of crops. Since the Khaze were presumed extinct, the two races could live in harmony for the next millennia or so. Thus the two sentient races co-existed for a rather long time until that one fateful day when the Xel?Naga discovered that they had not wiped out every last Khaze.

It was then that the Iyshari offered to do something that they had not done in the last few hundred millennia. They had offered their services to help the Xel?Naga defeat the Khaze once and for all. Since the Iyshari were a near completely defensive race, they knew how to hold out in a fight even if the enemy had superior resources and skills. Even though they were afraid for their newfound friends, the Xel?Naga agreed to let the last remnants of the Iyshari race attempt to annihilate the Khaze once and for all. Sending them supplies and even some of their own technology, the Xel?Naga watched all of their friends departed from the world that had come to be the main planet of the two races. It happened to be for years that the Xel?Naga anticipated the return of the Iyshari and it so happened on one day that one of the largest explosions ever known rocked the planets that the Xel?Naga had seeded. It was this explosion that had destroyed not only the colonies of the Xel?Naga but it supposedly destroyed the remnants of both warring races, leaving the Xel?Naga, once again, alone in their universe. It was this day that the Xel?Naga realized that they had to educate and personally evolve other races lest something like this happened.

Sending out many of their great ships, the elder race came across many worlds where they found other life forms. At first their mission was to help guide these races through life in order to make sure that what happened between the Xel?Naga as well as between the Iyshari and the Khaze would never happen again. They encountered many different species and all were special in their own way whether it was physically, mentally or even socially. They did well in their duties although many of these lesser species ended up dying as a result of genetic manipulation. That was when they started an experiment to create or manipulate a species into becoming something that might be able to stand their genetic manipulations. However, they eventually became obsessed with the process and eventually wanted to perfect their understanding of evolution, thus eventually being driven to create the greatest species the universe would ever know and all because of the fact that all of their previous experiments had died as a result of their involvement. Little did they know that this would set forth a motion of events that would lead to not only their destruction but the destruction of nearly everything. Something terrible would happen soon, something they never noticed.

A/N: This is my take on the Xel?Naga and how they came to their current state. This also serves as a bit of storyline for one of my old characters. It remains to be seen whether or not the Iyshari have survived and whether or not they will return?

I liked it, mostly because I can kind of grasp what's going on since I play Starcraft. The story seems to be coming along well, and it's very detailed. I'm looking forward to seeing what this new race will be like and how they go about destroying everything ^.^.

I found a few typos along the way:

It was a devastating war and one in which every man, woman and child where at risk.

"Where" should be "Were"

...the Xel?Nagan people had no choice but to except the fact...

"Except" should be "Accept"

Everyone had been physical prepared for the day...

"Physical" should be "Physically"

Looking forward to future chapters.

Thank you for commenting. I will now post chapter two.


Chapter One: Entity

Barren Wastelands of Earth

The entity that would soon emerge from the wreckage of the civilization that had once been more than numerous within the vast landscapes of this planet, was more than just something to be feared. While it had awaited the opportunity to awaken from its eons old slumber, the entity had searched through its memories for anything that might help it in its ancient duties. Among the first of its memories where those of the primitive and lesser creatures that dominated the land above it, and as weak minded and fragile of body as they were, these creatures were much more dangerous than they seemed, at first of course. These creatures, which called themselves the dominant race, constantly fought against each other as if determined to eradicate all but their own kind. The entity found this as confusing as it was useful. It also seemed that one day, their curiosity would overwhelm them and they would flock to other planets, far away from where it currently plotted even in its unconscious state. The entity had made sure not to reside in a place where it could be easily found in such a weakened state since that would have been a vulnerable position. Instead, it had carefully chosen a resting place in which few creatures could survive and one where these meddling lesser creatures would not dare to look, not that they even knew that they lived on a planet that rightfully belonged to something infinitely greater than themselves. It was their limitations and weakness that had allowed it to thrive.

From these same apparently dangerous weaknesses came a position of near relative safety from within the confines of the entity?s barren prison. This entity had allowed these pathetic creatures to believe that they were in absolute control of the entire planet and yet, at the same time it had been using its formidable mental gifts to restrain the effective evolution of these creatures, thus changing the course of their future, even if it was only a conscious effort that had taken many centuries to complete. They had been doomed already to repeat the mistakes of their ancestors, to bear a continuous and even insatiable lust for blood. The entity had only watched them form within its inescapable prison though it had occasionally sought to redirect their actions. It had only done so, however, to thwart any of their attempts to investigate the southern pole since this was where the entity had hidden itself for countless eons. It seemed only fitting to let these creatures believe that they were the first sentient life forms on the planet when in fact this entity was older than the planets in the solar system. Although the entity itself did not own the planet either, it had been there way before the first of these creatures had appeared and was older than any of the life forms, which, even though it did not own the planet, made it the true owner, by all accounts. Besides, if doing so furthered its own goals then doing so could not harm. For centuries, it had occasionally arisen from its slumber to observe the workings of those above it, marveling at how many ways they could find to eradicate one another without much concern for the future.

It found itself wondering what might become of these people if they continued despite the fact that it knew that its awakening would cause a catastrophe so large that few would survive. While the entity did not wish to harm them, finding it to be a waste of time and effort, it did not particularly care for them for that matter. After all, they were only a relatively young species, barbaric and barely bothered about the state of themselves and their future. It seemed only recently that they showed an interest in what might happen to them and even then they were too late. These creatures would have to die in order for it to awaken and that was simply the way things had to be. Their rule had been temporary, only needed in order for it to survive those that might hunt it down, considering that some of its life essence had already been robbed of it in the feuds that had erupted many millennia ago. If it remembered correctly, these were what another vastly inferior race had called khaydarin crystals, the same crystals that one species had used before. Even so, it was not particularly worried about any of the myriad races considering that no one had the might or knowledge needed to even have a chance of injuring something as old as itself. Not only that, but they did not pose an real significant threat to the entity no matter how rebellious and rapidly expanding they were. Even until this day, the entity never found any sentient life that might possibly stand a chance against it even by the slightest bit.

Even though this was completely true, precautions must always be taken to guard itself against those that might seek to defy its inevitable awakening. If even one thing went wrong then all might be lost, all of the millennia of preparing on this now barren and nearly lifeless planet would have gone to waste and that was something that, despite the fact that it was ageless and thus immortal by any means, could not afford even if it could be corrected some time in the distant future. Over the last couple of decades, the entity had slumbered peacefully, knowing that these creatures had their thoughts and energy focused on defeating those that might harm them. Even those enemies were not enough to pose a threat to the entity and those that could, might have hopefully already forgotten about its existence. Nestled within an almost infinite expanse of sheer ice, the entity shifted slightly as though it was lacked patience, its mind turning time and time again to the prospect of what to do when it awakened completely. Everything had gone according to its plans so far, so much that it would be soon that it would be allowed to roam the universe once more, an entity more powerful than any race could ever hope to see. Even then, the entity did not care what their reaction would be considering that it had far more dangerous opponents to dispose of.