[IC] Galaxy Maker

[Nilesapa]

Year 0 - The origin of life

Some time, eons before there was a human or dinosaur, before there was the pleiades or any complex, planet-based life for that matter life lived not on worlds but in the depths of space. These early beings only nested at time to time on worlds, living a nomadic existence without any boundaries, barriers or limits. They thrived for billions of years, living out a simple existence subsiding on the light from stars and occasionally dropping to the planets that orbiting them to die. Many words in the early universe were seeded by these beings, the "Nebulous" being what they are termed collectively due to not being any one species but a galactic biosphere of floating, space entities who were the first complex lifeforms to arise in a galaxy full of life less worlds.

Their origins came from the nebulae, where over the first several billion years of our universe life slowly developed and evolved not in a mucky soup, but in the void of space. The Nebulous over time would spread life to other worlds not for some benevolent reason, but simply by accident. Simply because some of them got caught in a gravity well or because it was a Nebulous specimen that used worlds to hide eggs from more predatory beings. The number of scenarios being quite vast in a galaxy full of Nebulous entities. Given billions of years, the microbes left behind on some rocky worlds begun to thrive. One day making you and me. As for what happened to the Nebulous, no one knows. Their remains in current time fester about the galaxy, being no longer as widespread as they once were and only existing in a few pockets of the galaxy like Eta Carniae. Murdered or simply starved, the era of the Nebulous is long over by now. Now it is now the era of sapience.

And that is where the story of the galaxy begins...

[Double Capybara]

The planet of Yrapira is distant enough from the sun to be completely hostile to life due to the cold. However, due to a thick atmosphere and intense volcanic activity the heat ends up trapped in it, forming a warm, humid and foggy ambient. The world is pangea like and most of its areas are composed by swamps.

Among the misty marshes a race was born, the evolution path was similar to that of the earthly mammals, except that due to the nature of the place they (and most species for that matter) never left their amphibious roots.

Currently they still don't dream with exploring the space, still being at the early phases of advancement and just recently starting to use writing systems and farming

[Nilesapa]

A a History of Mankind - Up to year Zero

Humans are a species who historically orbited a G class star in the orion arm region. Humans developed rapidly from hunter gatherers to a space faring species in the span of seven thousand years. Humans are warm blooded sapient animals of mammalian descent that are upright walking and bipedal, and still are despite the dangers of space travel and having nearly gone extinct In the past three thousand years alone when their industrial society got so advanced they discovered nanotechnology a century too soon for their own good.

Their home world, earth is now but a massive, spherical grey blob where nothing lives due to simply being the size of countless nano machines who's current state is unknown (for now). The human race survived simply because there was twelve colony ships sent out as the nanomachines begun to slowly over the span of five decades eat away at the planet- solving the nanomachine problem using nuclear weapons and Electromagnetic devices only temporarily slowing down the technological cancer. So instead the typically individualistic human species collectively begun building ships that would transport tons of eggs and frozen people to distant worlds around the Galaxy believed to have life.

(Colonizing Mars being considered a stupid idea because many scientists feared the nanomachines may one day spread to Mars as well, the census among every human after the nukes didn't work as well as hoped being "get the fuck as far away from sol as possible")

Tragically only two thousand people were able to go on these ships, all of which having to be rigorously trained "colonials" who could properly manage everything on the massive ark-like ships and their vast DNA banks. For these ships will be going on a vast journey that will put humans on every corner of the Galaxy by the time we get to year zero. The humans back on earth kept desperately trying to kill the nano machines to little avail while others kept making more colony ships to go out to the other worlds of the solar system with more people, the humans on earth left perishing. How humans developed from the colonies shall be seen.

(TL;dr nanomachines nearly killed everyone so we colonized the Galaxy with twelve good ships- this means the hard limit on human civs is 12-13, however. Anyone who wants to be human can pick the world colonized and detail how that colony developed after. All the colonies started with over a hundred humans, have access to data records of numerous technologies (and how to build them) and a library of genes to seed a planet with over time. They also have some equipment, but the equipment was much less standardized than the gene libraries and archives.)

[pyrolitch]

Species info :

Name: garuem
Appearance: exactly like a human except have "deformations" of the brain.
Base element: germanium
Advantages: greater knowlege capabilities also have the ability to manipulate energy (magic)
Disadvantages: breath argon (not as frequently occuring on earth) so haft to inhale more whilst on earth
Lifecycle: average lifespan 30,000 years (120 human years) before rebirth
Anything else: they speak the language scold however have been mostly self taught english.
Current tech level: earth2015

Planet info:

lush and green with few however extremely large (uk county size) cities .the population mainly live in isolated farms or huts. The planet is rich in platinum, tungsten and titanium undergroun. Its atmosphere is also argon heavy.
most life on the planet is also mainly germanium or carbon based the bulk however being carbon