I’ve mentioned the biverse to a few people before, and they always get
confused. They think that the person who named them is an idiot. These two
branes started out as one, and became two when it was duplicated. Now, this
happened during an unpopulated period of the Universum Originalis, as it’s
called, so don’t worry about alternate versions of people. It was really
just more like a cell splitting in half. They were identical when it
happened, but began to diverge from there on out. So which one is the
original, and which is the duplicate? Well, it’s hard to say for sure, but
this occurred as a result of an unexpected visit from a ship that originated
in a completely different universe. And while identity is very complex, the
universe where that ship ended up has always been treated as the duplicate.
So they call the other one Prime, and this new one The Composite Universe.
This is where people laugh. In math, a prime number is one that cannot be
divided by any number but 1, and itself. A composite number is anything
else. People laugh, because as the name of a universe, the word prime should
not be using this definition. It really just means primary, main, foremost.
And the opposite of this definition is not composite. Maybe it should be
secondary, or alternate. The thing is, no one ever said it was. In this
case, composite refers to—not the opposite of a prime number—but to the fact
that it was composed, created, produced. This is where the confusion lies,
and while I don’t know who actually came up with the names Universe Prime
and Composite Universe, I suspect that this confusion was done intentionally
so people like the ones I’ve talked to can complain about it, and then be
schooled.
The Composite Universe is full of life. One of the passengers on the ship
that accidentally created it grew to be lonely. He wasn’t the only survivor,
full stop, but he was one of a kind, and he wanted to create life in the
void. Fortunately, he was made immortal, and had plenty of time to realize
his dreams. He wasn’t particularly well-educated in the beginning, but give
him a few thousand years, and he’s leagues beyond anything any of us can
understand. He started tinkering with genetics, biology, and evolution. He
created all sorts of different intelligent creatures. Some he developed
right off the bat, while others took time to evolve, just as life does in
nature. Evolved and intelligent life is incredibly rare, and while I
wouldn’t characterize it as deliberate, it is regulated by nature. The
reason Universe Prime is called that is because that’s where all universes
I’m fully aware of originate. Every one of them is branched off of it, which
is why I’m always talking about Earth. It’s not like Earth is truly the
center of the bulkverse. Almost none of them even has an Earth, and its
inhabitants will have never heard of it. What they have in common is
that—within the confines of their respective universes—they’re isolated, and
alone. Life will evolve on one planet at a time, and won’t evolve again
until that one has long, long been extinct. Why is this the way things are?
I do not know. That is a lofty philosophical question that I can’t help you
with. I can tell you that the Composite Universe is different, because this
man decided it should be. He filled the galaxies to the brim with his
creations, in places that never would have had it on their own. That’s what
makes the Composite so different from all other universes. It’s complicated,
and it’s busy, and though Earth is still important, it’s mostly ignored, and
a lot of people elsewhere don’t even know that it exists.
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