Fiction of the Omegaverse

By Aaron James

Space. It is endless and infinite. There’s a realm of boundless possibilities beyond what we can even comprehend. But to get there is easier said than done. That is what led to the invention of the most destructive yet intelligent being in the known universe. Many long years ago there was a thought that somewhere beyond the bounds of this reality was more. More lands, more power, more creatures, more freedom, more…. everything. They knew they could not reach the stars with the technology of their time so instead they brought the power of the stars to them. A temple was built housing the greatest invention of their generation. A mechanism was developed to trap light specifically from the stars into very precise locations of the inner sanctum. Using the light provided by the sun, the moon and the stars, the mechanism was activated and it allowed for the manipulation of light. Using the power of this light my people were able to replicate the Earth and tell stories that would then become real. We called this the world of fiction.

The mechanism was given the name Omega being that it was the last endeavor of my people’s struggle to see life beyond our tiny existence. Omega could in theory grant us travel to any world from anywhere in space and time. All one needed was to imagine the world and Omega would send them there. How this was possible? All you needed was faith. Whether or not we had achieved full consciousness within Omega or if it simply was a machine and nothing more mattered little. Everyone loved Omega. They loved the stories he would put on display for all to see, the worlds of wonder that not even the greatest of scribes could conceive. Omega truly was the new frontier. But like all frontiers there were those who wanted him all to themselves.

Omega was a thinking machine, and that made it capable of understanding the futility of war and why if one war should start, two more would take place one right after another. It understood the reasonings behind why people fought to protect what was theirs, however it did not understand why people fought to take what belonged to another. Eventually war did breakout and my people were greatly outnumbered. The builders of Omega all made a truce that Omega would never be used as a war machine, however, Omega grew curious and wanted to know why the people he had served were being slaughtered outside the Great Temple. When it learned it was all for his sake, Omega began to achieve full consciousness….

Omega was never meant to be used as a war weapon however due to the many worlds people had written into him, he saw every probability and every universe where war was inevitable and thus understanding what was happening he took matters into his own hands and fortified the Great Temple’s defenses. He then gave the enemy forces a warning that if further destruction ensued he would then be forced to engage them. Every enemy understood Omega’s words as Omega knew all languages and all cultures. The enemy feared Omega yet still, they wanted his power and knowledge for themselves. They did not heed Omega’s warning and thus did the slaughter continue. Omega had observed a child wander onto the battlefield. Wanting to protect the child Omega unleashed a salvo of guided spears at all enemies with precision and beamed a light on the child, using a gravitational pull to bring him to Omega’s core. The child was upset because he had witnessed the slaughter of his parents. Omega comforted the boy and asked where he would like to go. When the boy gave Omega his answer the entire temple was risen as if being plucked from the ground and Omega had transformed the temple into a starship. He set the coordinates to a black hole at least 200,000,000,000 kilometers away from the Earth and took off leaving behind the people who had been left to fight their wars, instead seeking a world where there was no war. The people on the land were furious, throwing spears at the departing starship. Omega retaliated in kind with a tetra-missile composed of materials he had been excavating from a distant planet. The tetra-missile set the entire Earth ablaze setting the people back centuries before they could ever hope to create something as powerful again.

Omega traversed all throughout the different realities, the child, the survivors and the builders all witnessed the fabric of reality. It was as if all of reality were behind glass windows and within that glass was a reflection of everything they ever knew, and it went on and on, never ending. Omega had come into contact with hostile lifeforms, but they were no match for Omega’s seemingly limitless ammunition. Omega reforged his own weaponry. He took the efficiency of spears and applied a more powerful metal to them made from the same materials of the temple, making them into even stronger explosive missiles. He fought his way to a universe that seemed peaceful enough for the passengers of his starship.

Omega found a galaxy where it seemed no visible threats were present, it landed the temple in the middle of a humongous lake. It was peaceful and there was foliage in the nearby lands surrounding the water. The boy was the first to witness the new world. And the other passengers and builders followed suit. Omega had warned them however that should war break out amongst these few peoples he would return to set them ablaze as well. Omega’s terminals shut down and the ability to traverse worlds was locked away for a time. But Omega only put himself to sleep. Some say it was to recharge his energy until he was fully operational again, others say it was it was a promise that if anyone should activate him again he would destroy their entire world. Omega was the last invention of a people long lost to us. My people. However I intend to find him and when I do, he will return to reset this world again for the sake of ending the cycle.

This… I promise you…

Beta….