The Ever-Living slept deep within the planet, laying dormant for eons without a single disturbance upon the dead, lonely world. Their dreams spanned millions of years, remembering everything everyone knew consciously and subconsciously within their great hyper-conscious. Every living thing they assimilated added to their understanding, and gradually, after thousands of years, the Ever-Living transformed from a ravenous virus, into something much more. Something that no thing, mortal or immortal, could ever hope to comprehend.
Having gained sapience, they reasoned that their gift must be shared to others, for though they never died, they saw that others did. The thought of death, they couldn't begin to comprehend, but they knew those who died feared death, and so, in their viral crusade, they pledged to save all they could from death. In the Galaxy they found themselves in, however, all they could see was death. No matter how hard they looked, death was all they could see. They felt great turmoil within themselves, thinking that their revelation came too late, and all living things were dead. At their time of greatest weakness, they remembered the ones who fled into the stars to escape them. This Galaxy was dead, but that did not mean that all life was dead. They must find this life and save it, before it is too late.
In a last ditch effort, The Ever-Living crammed itself into the largest planet it could find, and used all the energy it held as a planetary jet, causing the planet to speed up to incredible velocity, rocketing out of the Galaxy, and into the black unknown. They energy used to rocket the planet was great, and biomass and planetary layers flaked off the planet, due to the intense force and friction, the take-off put it through. So as the planet flew, the Ever-Living hibernated as the planet of Ishimura made its eon long maiden voyage to the Milky Way, a Galaxy filled with life and strife, and unknown to them, to their first hosts, the Gashanthi, who thought were finally rid of their mistake made millions of years ago.
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Captain's Long: Jeremy Grey, I.C 1895
We've discovered a new planet on the edge of the Milky Way, and we've begun excavation to discover any valuable ores and such within, along with sciencey things our insufferable virgins can masturbate to. As captain of this ship, and due to no other sources of life, native or otherwise, it is my duty to name this rock. It shall, of course, be named after me. I, Captain Jeremy Grey, shall name it after my darling ship, Ishimura. One small step for Yhaes, and one giant drill, for Yhaesimir!