Three Aeons - 2nd Era - Day 8

Alexandra wanders lightly across the face of the planet, unseen, but perhaps felt by some of the more sensitive ... entities ... observing what there is to see, particularly the life forms. She swims the various bodies of water and enjoys what she sees. Then she takes to the air, and as she flies, she hears a strange howling. She investigates. To her great pleasure, she sees a group of mammals, howling at her smile constellation in the sky. As reward for pleasing her, the smile constellation glows and a finger of falling stars moves as if from between the lips, towards the earth, but does not reach it - rather, Alexandra lightly taps each of the creatures between the eyes and gives them a gift, then watches to see how it develops and what they will do with it.

A gentle light settles over the Racoon creatures and their eyes open a bit wider. They become more aware of themselves and the world around them, and whilst they sing, they begin to sign with words of praise, still primitive but they are grateful that their minds have been expanded and that their comprehension of their beauty of the world is that much more. They form a circle and slowly dance, spontaenously and rather primitively but with perfect timing to the silent music they sing.

Sawda-Saiph is conflicted. Should she use her connection with dark forces to save the world from the asteroid? Will this endanger the world to bring the darkness so close? She creates a micro-blackhole as far from the world as possible, but in the path of the hurtling body. The micro-blackhole is surrounded by dark matter and so it cannot grow. However, with its small size, it will remain until it slowly dissipates the radiation back into the Universe. She remains nearby to ensure only the hurtling body intersects.

The black hole is interposed in front of the Death Rock. The impact is immediate and titanic. The Death Rock shatters, and much of it is instantly destroyed, though half still manages to move forward. There is great celebration in the world below, however since the Shardi had seen the anomoly in the heavens and predicted the impact of the rock on the world, destroying all life. They have now learned the name of Sawda-Saiph, harbinger of death but also bringer of life. The celebration is short lived however since it rapidly becomes apparent that at least half of the rock is still heading towards the world. In the process, small nuggets of Dark Matter spring forth into the heavens, some of which fall to the world below. Many of these are burned up in the magnetic shield but some of the larger chunks land in greater amounts in the world below, thus increasing the quantity of dark matter.

Alexandra turns to her children, though they cannot see her, and clearly says to her children, "Learn, grow, gain in wisdom and take care of each other, this planet and all that dwells on it." Knowing that it might result in her destruction, Alexandra places herself in the path of the oncoming asteroid, spreads herself out and solidifies, a gigantic shield, covering the most endangered side of the planet ... and smiles.

Alexandra interposes herself in front of the remaining half of the death rock. However, given the sheer mass of the stone involved, much of it lifts up into the air and orbits towards the far side of the planet. Since she herself is inherently invulnerable and cannot be stopped, the Death Rock is pulverized. The Alexandrians celebrate this, though the Dragons and Shardi are cyincially critical of her failed effort. The elementals are pleased but largely indifferent since the threat is still real, if lessened.

Χαος rips the moon with the comforting statue out of its orbit around the earth, bathes it in Light Matter from his Obelisk, and sends it rocketing on a collision course with the meteorite and the micro-blackhole.

The third moon is moved. What is left of the Death Rock is now absorbed in the moon, though the perfect balance that previously existed between the two moons is now disrupted, causing tides to begin to shift and change on the world below. The third moon is now a spectacular sight, interlaced with the giant statues but glittering with the ruddy red bits of the death rock and lingering black veins of Dark Matter. Explosions of Light Matter and Dark Matter intermixed cause craters in the world though thanks to the intervening titans the world will survive. The celebration in the world below is now total, but waves of erratic peace and war begin to unleash on the world, causing strange alliances of Shardi, Dragons, Changed Elementals and Alexandrians to fight with each other and against other groups.

Banio is displeased that his efforts to destroy the world has failed. He sees the celebration of the various inhabitants of the world below and is particularly incensed. He claps his hands together and sends a portion of the ruddy remains of the Death Rock down to the world below and creates the Metal Men, animate creatures like Elementals but composed entirely of the Death Rock with the singular mission to slaughter all living things.

Banio creates the Metal Men.

The Metal Men begin to wreak havok. One clan of Alexandrians, Shardi, Elementals and Dragons battling another is set on from behind by the Metal Men and half their number are slain before the native sentient creatures flee in all directions, attempting to regroup, but with their minds and emotions in chaos due to the eratic orbit of the third moon, thus far they are not suceeding very well.