#galactic civilization

“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?” ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Our government later buried this paper because it didn’t serve their military purposes.

When the Clorns established their total dominion throughout the galaxy around 810 million years ago their main focus had been to look and if it was necessary to cultivate the worlds and their biospheres in the post-war time due to many of those had become uninhabitable for even the basic life forms due to the major destruction brough in the las dozens of millions of years. The list of such world formed by several terraformed planets where the Brizionians established but were wiped out, worlds that were created from 0 with the base biology of civilization that had created them both by the Clorns and the Brizionians, some worlds with their native life that had been exterminated in mass extinction events, and at the end of the chain a considerable amount of planets virgins who had not been touched by both civilizations in any way that has altered their ecologies. Of the latter, the untouchable and pristine worlds, the biodiversity and complexity they conserved for hundreds of millions of years would provide the basis for the next waves of intelligent organisms which the clorns will receive with their open arms. Although at the beginning they had uplifted some of the species from their homeworld to sapience as an attempt to populate the galaxy in a short time, the reality for them was that it was wiser to wait for the first natural civilization to emerge, for what in subsequent millions of years they were watching in several worlds, in specific the virgin worlds in search of the suitable candidates, they had to wait at least 140 million years more to finally have a result. The clorn's patience give its fruits in the form of a strange type of quadrupedal long necked creatures, descended from of octa-radial symmetrical organisms which had adopted their own bilateral bauplan, these as the clorns were titans of their type, however, the new thinkers were at least twice tall and 3 times heavier than the Clorns themselves. Despite being slow herbivores these were able to express great cognitive ability, being able to solve problems efficiently, understand concepts, assemble advanced tools, create and even ask, and eventually being able to create civilizations. It took them around 100,000 years to reach space after a long history of constant changes of them and their world around, being able to make way for the stars. When they managed to develop communication and hyperluminal transport, having conquered other solar systems and at the same time having overcome certain types of social and mental limitations, these were finally received by the clorns in a pleasant way to participate in the great galactic republic. Eventually and after deliberation of their own civilization members, the race known as the Baramuts had entered into the galactic landscape. These large and heavy creatures were the result of a biosphere that had not been severely damaged for about 400 million years until their appearance, the planet known as Gyfivsev, a tropical world a little smaller than earth that flourished of life going futher back before the rise of the brizionians and which went unnoticed as clorn's homeworld, Orolis. Most of its limbs have been derived from tentacles that once helped their radial ancestors to mobilize, and that after millions of years have changed form and number, some merging and others specializing. The four large pillar-shaped legs are actually 3 groups of fused legs, while on each sides, they still have these 3 free tentacles and being able to manipulate objects, which at the ends have dozens of small palps. In front of their body was projected a huge proboscis jaw which he kept retracted in the body and covered by a hood of flesh, extending only to feed, which opened horizontally, with 2 recognizable pairs of lobes each with 2 small protruding horns, and inside several groups of dental batteries. In the back part there was a sinuous and long neck, which supported a large head with two pairs of eyes and a series of closed ears going in arch to the back, in addition to a large rugose front which works as a visual structure capable of changing color and form depending of what they want to communicate, and when the neck wasn't upright these were able to rest it alongisde the head across the upper front. Its civilization and union with the republic was a rather slow process, taking almost a few million years to expand through other worlds in the galaxy as they maintained control over their population for their long lives and little interest in galactic propagation, although eventually they would be able to establish themselves properly in the long term. They helped the clorns to restore and maneter certain planets thanks to the patience and care in terraforming methods that they perfected for quite some time, being even more effective than the clorns to not only to revive but to make worlds maintain their vitality, although this came with preference towards certain types of planets that hosted the same conditions of their home worlds, being the only planets that colonized and lived, only also preferring worlds of low gravity because of the agility that gave them. This selective and almost unchanged lifestyle allowed the Barabuts to retain their original form for tens of millions of years, only arising variants in populations of worlds of low gravity with pretty gracile forms. For 200 million years they maintained and created several worlds, being the gardeners and special caretakers of entire solar systems, however their prosperity ended during the galactic cataclysm of 470 million years ago that led to its class alongside the rest of the galactic republic to its demise, extinguishing to these titans careful and sending them to oblivion. Even though the race vanished some of their jobs were able to survive, as some few planets with special genetic and geological traces that points to their Baramuts design that lasted for hundreds of millions of years.

The things of this universe born or begins to exist, grows and advances, and in the process creating and destroying in miriad of interactions, and then after a while soon or later such things has to end, it is inevitable, it is a tendency that is natural in the great schemes of things, it may come in a time, but in the end it is sure that the end always happen to everything that has been born in this great cosmos, which also include the intelligent species, those creatures that with great skills to invent and study their environment around and to be able to create the tools to survive, eventually can not avoid the inevitable end. That's what happened to the first great civilization of the last billion years, the Brizionians when their almost 300 million year old empire collapsed due to their inability to maintain balance, and from there they perished to make way for the next great dynasty, one that would prosper for a long period of time. This started when their practice of destruction to limit the rise of intelligent life caused more harm that good, driving its own kind to start a civil war which lasted millions of years, and eventually leaving what we would call it a blind spot in a region where their presence was almost non-existent, in that place was a planet, the fourth to orbit a yellow star, the world called by its original inhabitants as Orolis, a temperate planet similar in size to the earth, this world had remained practically intact from the practices of the Ancient Empire for many millions of years and despite remaining a candidate for extermination, unnoticed and with the absence of the race now occupied in a war this world would host a new intelligent species, from a forgotten corner of a now chaotic galaxy the Clorns emerged. These titans of 4 meters tall had started as the most intelligent species of a clade of huge omnivores coming from a great dinasty of arthropodal megafauna organisms that have been dominating Orolis for the last 100 million years. they were originally arthropodic octopodal centauroids, with a pair of legs adapted originally for defense being able to hit with quite extreme force, eventually developed hand manipulating organs with 4 appendages similar to fingers and special bristles for touch and smell, and the rest of the 6 limbs just used to walk being pillar shaped, semi-erect with 3 scute like toes. Its body was segmented in 4 parts that corresponded to its limb number, being the frontal section elongated with space to fold the main arms when did not use them, and from this it hold the large and protuberant head being half of their height, with 3 pairs of compound eyes that protruded from a single eyestalk on each side, a small mouth formed by 3 beak like mouthparts covered by 2 pairs of mouthparts, and a prominent forehead which actually holds part of its digestive system and some other organs, being the brain located across the neck and part of the first segment of its body. Despite their insectoid appearance with what looks like an exoskeleton, that just only a impresion of its old ancestral shape armour that It has thinned and covered by the tissue, while inside their body is supported by a fairly developed endoskeleton that allows to support the body. The Clorn kind started on a large continent, in the midst of the low vegetation areas, being mostly a savannah environment, they eventually moved to temperate rainforests where they had started to develop their own agriculture and societies, to eventually climb into advanced cultural and technological development in about 20,000 years later, arriving in space and colonizing other celestial bodies, and doing the final jump to other solar systems in a period of 2000 years, creating a federation formed of different colonies that would prosper for several thousand years, expanding in the galactic arm in rather slowly step even though they eventually invented a rudimentary type of hyper-luminic contact and transport. Unfortunately, their prosperity ended when they came into contact with the still-in-conflict Brizionians, who in a hasty manner with a reinforced xenophobia had embedded themselves in the extermination of the Clorn, devastating a large part of the colonized worlds. Although the Clorns already had an idea of the existence of the Brizionians and their empire by series of abandoned worlds ruins and of certain leaks of communications from these, they never had an idea at the beginning of the fulminating force they had, an ancient empire which was able to overcome the very young folk. The battle in spite of being unbalanced by the technological level and antiquity of each civilization, there were several advantages of which allowed the Clorns to elude and confront with enough resistance to the invasive force, including an empire fractured by a war, its great capacity to apply some technology in reverse and the brizionian ignorance of the territory dominated by the arthropod titans. For at least other 10 million years there was formed many war fronts from many folks of the Brizionians which wanted to end or continue the empire, even though all of them wanted the Clorns to become extinct, the Clorns endure in constant resilience, which eventually just ended in a cold war in a galactic scale, but everything started falling apart with few of the factions of the brizionians overcame their xenophobia considering the state of stagnation of their clade, helping the Clorns to give the right push by giving them total knowledge, strategy and technology that would put them at the level of the old empire, eventually by world and world the Clorns overthrew the old empire to the ground, eventually while those who helped them chose the exile. With the Brizionians out and that war finished once for all around 810 millions of years ago, the clorns started to build up a new galactic civilization from the ashes and destruction, giving rise to an era of flourishing of life and diversity, with new and varied civilizations emerging in other regions of space from many new species, in addition to several others created by the Clorns themselves, creating a galactic republic of united civilizations, creating and building worlds and artificial mega structures, modifying at the same time in its own anatomy and contacting other extragalactic races, even though they still confronted calamities and even conflicts in different scales, their kind and civlizations alongside them mantained a good balance and kept this large Union for at least 340 million years, but eventually just like the previous Empire, this union was going to end. The Clorns with their great Galactic Republic they founded and being watched by them in a point around 490 to 470 millions of years ago ended abruptly by a series of major cataclismic events still unknown for humans that wiped out great part of the life in millions of worlds, and many of the civilizations that cohabited not only in this but in the other neighboring galaxies, something that this race couldn't control or stop. Interestingly, it seems that a remnant of these survived and maintained a little activity millions of years after the fall of their galactic civilization in some worlds, but eventually they disappeared without a trace. In this universe many things born, live and dies, in an always constant process that repeats in each species, in each event, in each object, neither the Brizionians, neither Clorns escaped it, but with the ending it doesn't mean a total termination, but just a conclusion of a chapter, as with the Clorns gone new races and civilizations emerged, eventually including humanity itself, as just a process in the great scheme of things on this universe.

For many millions of years since the foundation of the Galactic Republic, most of the races that appeared throughout the galaxy, both natural and artificial, tended to maintain always a bilateral body, of more than two body planes, or radial, in its totality with little or no variation in its sides, being quite absent the existence of asymmetric intelligent species. Although some species with the ability to modify their anatomy through genetic makeup had created classes with variations in their bauplan in general, the existence of a species with a  asymmetric radical variation in their morphology something that was not considered that could appear, however the surprise would come in a planet of high gravity, mostly desert with several oceans scattered on its surface and thousands of lagoons and lakes approximately 510 million years ago. The large planet just known as Yag hosted a diverse variety of organisms adapted to extreme gravity (which would be 2 times that of the earth in comparison) which most of these have main common features like flat and/or elongated bodies, very stick to the ground, with short limbs, being some of these mollusk-like organisms. One species in particular, a shrubby, opportunistic omnivore similar to a mix of a crab and a clam had escalated in the development of technology and thought to the point of creating civilizations, then in a period of more than 60,000 years to be able to leave the planet and colonize other worlds despite the fact that gravity of their world brought them problems in the process. Free of the restrictions of their homeworld gravity, these eventually expanded through the stars, encountering different worlds totally different to its own with less gravity, which brought a push of the development of a new variety of these organisms, being the next generations changing form a flat crab/clam like creatures to a much more erect and with a more elongated body form. The new class eventually became much more widespread for space colonization, leading to relegate their ancestors to their home world, and becoming these able to discover the hyperluminic travel and thus contacting the galactic republic although didn't unite to them until some millions of years after, these were the Turabas, the only assymetrical sapient species known from the clorn era. These creatures of crustacean/mollusk look reached a height of up to 90 cm, being characterized by the way their body was configured which was the result of natural selection and the sudden modification directed by themselves when they moved out of their home world. Their bodies were divided into 3 parts, the thorax, the mandibular area and the eye above it; The chest covered mostly by a keratin shell was where most of its organs are found including a double ring-shaped brain around the neck that connects the second section, as well six orifices which each one has a specific fuction from 3 for breathing, 2 for smell and one to hear. On side of its body protruded around 14 pseudopods which on each side four of them work together functioning as a full leg when he needs to walk, although they were able to take individual steps with each pseudopod in slow step. From all these limbs there were a pair of minor tentacles in the middle of the three groups, which they were used for breeding functioning as special reproductive organs. In the upper part of the body around the back part there were two long limbs which were used as manipulators with different proportions in length: the left limb was shortest, with a fleshy tongs with dozens of palps around the inner edge, being mainly for food handling and tools; the right limb  was much larger, with a more muscular arm, his pincer lacks palps and turns out to be more hardened in his inner area, made to grasp and take with enough force. The second part of the body, the mandibular area contains 2 lateral mouths that open at the top, being mainly devoid of teeth or some type of dental structure, it rises several centimeters from its thorax, thanks to its extendable neck that was able to retract and seal; and above this, on another small neck is located what looks like two eyes were actually only one big eye, only divided by a covering of keratin in the middle, also able to retract. This variety of bizarre characteristics made for a long time difficult the integration of this race in the republic because they considered other races unpleasant looking for their simmetry, creating a xenophobic barrier of other species although leaving relationships in a neutral position for almost 3 million years, but eventually with time they passed from disgust to tolerate their interstellar neighbors to finally join the union of civilizations. For a long time they remained relegated to roam and colonize certain worlds, however and eventually with preference to low gravity habitats being more preferable of artificial environments for the ability to control their environments, added to a capacity for the construction inata in they became quite effective architects of structures reaching the creation of varied mega-structures and artificial worlds. Eventually they have had to face their own demise during the great cataclism of 470 m.y. that wiped out the Galactic republic, or at least the class that abandoned their homeworld as the original form survived on its own way during millions of years apart of its kind, silent in the safe of their high gravity world and eventually rising in the aftermath.

The sapience can come in different forms, different types of bodies, and in different sizes, although at the beginning and for a while on the galactic era of the Clorns these sapients tended to be of medium to large size, only with some species quite small if one would compare it with an adult human being, although these weren't extreme minuscule, as might be said about the size of the small birds of the earth. Although they experimented for some time on species of tiny sizes but capable of great brain development, they did not have many expectations of the evolution of a natural minuscule sapient species, just considering that they either wouldn't be able to develop a high advance civilization or could probably arise as some eusocial species and with cooperation could achieve it as clorns have witnessed. However and as a surprise, the next species that would join their republic would be an unlikely minuscule creature. Around 590 m.y. ago in a very warm with a dense atmosphere planet and dominated by a supercontinent called Setogy, amid the canyons of basalt stone sculpted by rain and erosion that was full of hanging flora, small flying creatures had managed to develop their first civilization after millions of years of having controlled the fire and refined their skills to create tools and structures, eventually launching into space since the foundation of societies in a period of only 5000 years, and reaching new solar systems in a short time getting to contact with other civilizations of the republic before developing hyperluminal transport. Although contact limitation and concealment were maintained by certain rules in a first contact, eventually this civilization reached the necessary development and joined the galactic society, being recognized by them as the Fleugani. These small hairy and rounde flying ones could be considered the smallest sapient species that has appeared in the galaxy during the Clorn era and evolved naturally, with a body length of 12 to 14 cm excluding limbs, and a wing span of almost 40 cm. They evolved from a very prolific group of small active flying organisms, similar to earth bats, being part of a more expanded clade of invertebrate-like creatures that lack an ossified skeleton, and instead possess a cartilage endoskeleton around the body and parts of the head, which is reinforced by a scale armor. Its great intelligence is due to its complez nervous system, which is a system of ganglia that were located around the head and neck, divided into 3 parts which together make up a fairly efficient brain. In their basic appearance, these were characterized by having spherical bodies from which four digitigrade limbs protruded, being used to perch when resting or walking, in addition to a pair of semi-rigid partially hairless membranous wings which were derived from a third paird of limb, although these are structured with several folds in a way that let the wing be totally folded into the body without problem like the wings of an insect, being covered by the part closest to the body; in the back part of its body protrude small feather like parts that acted as flukes and also huge appendages like tentacles that ended with small manipulatory organs. The head of these was short, with four retractable eyes capable of perceiving colors and UV, with a double jaw system, which consisted of a small radial proboscis with a small beak formed by six mouthparts, which were covered by a larger lower jaw that covered it, these have had a very specific diet based in rich energetic food including in lipids, proteins and sugars. They at the beginning of developing their interstellar civilization had a fairly extraordinary growth in the number of colonized solar systems compared to the clorns and Baramuts without the use of hyperluminal transport, this is probably due to the mass difference of their transports that was quite outstanding , being their spaceships much more compact and less heavy, in addition to giving them more space for conventional fuels allowing them to reach much closer speeds of light, and after they discovered the hyperluminic transports their distribution exploted in just a blink of an eye in the galactic scale, being able to colonize thousands of planets, being the favorite worlds similar to their homeworld. Interestingly, a tendency arose in several populations that lived in worlds alike to the conditions of their native planet, since through generations and selective variations they modified their morphologies and anatomies according to their needs, adapting to certain conditions and modifying their original form in different and unique classes and species in several million years. This species to integrate into the extragalactic society turned out to be quite talented and skilled technological engineers, being quite delicate and accurate in the manipulation of minuscule components as in the development of apparatus and special objects, which made this species related to the development of devices and quite characteristic systems that only the other races could do with special machinery. For at least 120 million years most of the Fleugani kind helped the republic in the technological fields, until their demise alongside them during the great cataclism of 470 m.y. ago, which drive most of them into extinction, even though there are evidence some groups of its kind survived and thrived in the aftermath of the cataclism, but never reaching its galactic or interstellar level of civilization.