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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Manan Shah: [QB] A bit more information: Photino Birds: Lifeforms made of dark matter. The matter consists of the 99% of the mass of the universe, so they are too many to count. There is a problem: All the Suns going nova is bad for them (kills them). So they devise a plan to suck the energy out of every Sun, so they can live in peace. That of course, is bad for us. 20 billion years ago, Xeelee (baryonic life forms who need the suns, like us) were already the dominant species in the universe, first made contact with these photino birds and discovered what they were up to. Realizing what the birds were after, they started a war, THE war actually, in order to fight them. They probably realized really quickly that they werent going to defeat the birds, so they sent timeships into the past in order to alter their own genetic history to give themselves more time. Even so, the war will be lost. So they begin construcion of 'The Ring', or the Great Attractor about 10 billion years ago, which is like a gateway to other universes, in order to escape. Five billion years ago, the photino birds found out about the xeelee project, and began attacking it, however, they did not destroy it before it was completed. ENTER HUMANS: We are idiots (basically), and eventually we become the dominant species in the universe (besides the xeelee, which are immesurably more powerful, as to be incomparable). Everyone else (including humans) basically try to copy their technology and get by. So, humans get this crazy idea that xeelee are actually killing the universe (we dont know about the birds) instead of fighting to save it from the real threat. So we start attacking the xeelee too. THankfully, we are not really a threat and after a while (when they get tired of us), they destroy our worlds and lock us up in a box so they can focus on the real fight (against the birds). Anyway, the xeelee sequence basically documents this, up until 4 billion years in the future, when xeelee at the height of their power and in their full baryonic glory finally admit their defeat and leave the universe through the ring. Soon thereafter, the Ring is destroyed, and the universe dies prematurely (killed off by the birds), forever. Some bands of humans also make it out of the universe and colonize other universes. In the end, just a couple conciousness's are left in our current universe to ponder the futility of human existance. Thats it in a nutshell. The Xeelee sequence is one of the best works of fiction ever written (in my opinion). Flux, Raft, Ring, Vaccuuum Diagrams (read vacuum first). Feel free to ask any questions about the Xeelee sequence, I love discussing these books. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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