In 2210, the people of Durus voted to begin exploring the Nexus replica
network. This was after the decline in temporal energy, but
before anyone knew about it. Following careful consideration, more
discussions, and training, the first mission was dispatched in 2213. They
chose to go to a planet millions of light years from the stellar
neighborhood called Dardius, mostly because that was the only location
available. They could see evidence that there were other Nexa to visit, but
they were locked out of all but the one. They established diplomatic
relations with the Dardieti, but both sides were very cautious about their
interactions. Dardius was a sanctuary planet, designed to house people who
had either survived close encounters with dangerous temporal manipulators,
or were at risk of encounters, due to events occurring in alternate
realities. These people’s descendants lived here as well, and though they
used some time technology of their own, they were very wary of Durus. They
also had a very delicate social structure, which relied on rescuing people
in the past at very precise moments. They didn’t just extract them from the
timeline at random. They developed highly sensitive models to make sure new
citizens integrated safely into the system without disrupting it, or being
disrupted by it. Durus was a new variable, which Dardius had not
accounted for in their models. That didn’t mean they were xenophobic, or
hateful, but this was going to be a slow process, which didn’t bother Durus,
because they were in no hurry to make any drastic changes to their own
system. Before anything of significance could happen, the relationship ended
anyway. In 2217, Dardius began having major issues with one of their rescue
groups. Their timeline extraction machine malfunctioned, and started quantum
duplicating everyone who came through, over and over and over again. This
threw off the social balance greatly, and sparked a war. Dardius had no time
to deal with Durus, but this would stop being a problem two years later when
the Durune realized their time power issues. They could no longer afford to
waste energy on intergalactic travel either.
Flashforward several decades, and the time power problem had not been
solved. Nor had the regular power problem. It was becoming increasingly
difficult to maintain the wind turbines on the surface, and they still had
no way of powering the Nexus. Fortunately, the Dardieti did. Their war was
long over by 2267, and Dardius was essentially under brand new management.
The Einarssons wanted to reestablish relations with Durus, so they sent a
recon team to find out how the Durune had been doing. They were soon able to
provide them with a power source, so they could initiate outgoing
transports, but that alone would do them no good. There were still hundreds
of thousands of people in the stasis pods who could not exactly be evacuated
using traditional means, even with the Nexus in play. It was only designed
to accommodate thirty people at a time. There seemed to be a way,
however. As Dardius’ best technicians were working with Durus’ best, they
found something called an Evacuation Protocol. It was exactly what
they were looking for. The machine could still only take thirty people at
once, but it would just keep going and going, about once every minute. If
they coordinated perfectly, they calculated they could evacuate every single
person in a month and a half. Realistically, it would be closer to two months,
but that was fine. They were lucky to have found the feature, because it
wasn’t immediately apparent to them, and it wasn’t something people would
need on a regular basis. Perhaps the machine was somewhat sentient, and knew
that this was exactly what they needed to survive. Under the Einarssons,
the Dardieti were now less concerned about predictive social harmony models,
and more concerned with saving lives. They agreed to evacuate everyone who
wanted to move to their planet, which had a stable sun, and abundant
resources, without question. Nearly everyone happily agreed to abandon their
dead world, because there was little hope of saving it from the void, and
they felt that it was just time to let it go. Some did choose to stay
behind, however, and they had their reasons.
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