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The Dark Universe

The Dark Universe is a hypothesis formulated by the mystic Balabunster Gorb in the 311th year of the 20th Eon to explain the appearance and dangerous behavior of certain species and beings new to the Kabacta Rift. In short, it presupposes another universe, one almost empty of life and energy and nearly dead, that produces intelligences inimical to this reality's living things, due both to their nature and their destructive behavior toward life in this universe.

Balabunster put forth the hypothesis to explain the "Citrus Dread," the hysterical, frightened reaction of Moochava and other species upon their first encounter with Humans, Zrentili, and several other now-extinct 20th Eon entities. Balabunster proposed that Humans were native to the Dark Universe, while the Zrentili were simply Moochava that had "touched" it, allowing the "void intellect" to enter into them.

With the spread of Humans and their fellow-creatures through Broken Space, the Citrus Dread evaporated, and further battles with the Zrentili revealed more mundane allegiances with Niisite deities, causing Balabunster Gorb's loosely-explained hypothesis to lose popularity. Though many Humans from the Core Worlds claim ancestry from this "Dark Universe," citing such creatures as the etsijakki as proof of their own extradimensional origins, no theorist has been able to devise an appropriate legend explaining how such a "non-reality" could exist. The failure to devise suitable myths has been cited by some Core World scholars as proof that the Dark Universe operates on different premises and principles entirely, but this line of reasoning has been dismissed as fallacious by most mystical organizations. The Dark Universe exists now mostly as a story-telling device for Core World gearplays and Bomaug war/peace/mother songs.