The Ochivari were not born as antinatalists. In fact, they were quite the
opposite in the beginning. They multiplied like crazy, obsessed with
developing galactic dominance through sheer numbers. Even without the
technology of many human civilizations, they figured they could ultimately
win any conflict simply by the fact that it was more difficult to kill them
all. They would win any battle, because so many of their kind would be left
over. This sentiment was not limited to the population growth itself.
Overexploitation of resources became almost a point of pride amongst their
species. They destroyed their planet as they raced to increase their
numbers, and as they fought to spread out to other planets, so they could
take those resources as well. Of course, this was a completely unsustainable
model, and caught up to them quite quickly. They would have died out if they
had not discovered that they were biologically capable of crossing over into
other universes, where resources would ultimately prove infinite. As it
would happen, the second universe they went to experienced a similar fate,
though not quite as on purpose. The humans there were not living on Earth,
but had evolved elsewhere in the galaxy. They wrecked their own world, and
due to a number of unfortunate circumstances—including a relatively low
oxygen ratio in the atmosphere, and relatively high surface gravity—they
were never able to venture out into the solar system, let alone beyond. In
the end, in order to preserve their planet’s future, they were the ones who
came up with antinatalism for themselves. They killed almost the entire
population, save for an elite few who were selected to survive in stasis.
With humanity out of the way, their planet could once again take over, and
eventually repair the damage. They would not awaken for millions of years.
Now, while this brane is referred to as Efilverse, its inhabitants weren’t
truly efilists. Efilism is a philosophical stance that places a negative
value on both birth, and life. The efilversals make no such moral judgment.
They just saw how much their civilization destroyed of their world, and
decided that it was their responsibility to fix it, which they chose to do
through genocide. Real efilists are not murderers.
The efilversals didn’t want their species to die out completely, but
thought they could do things better once they returned from stasis, and
restarted civilization, equipped with insight, and advanced technology.
Unfortunately for them, they continued to make bad decisions, right up to
the end. They made no attempt to choose the most practical survivors for the
stasis program. Many of them were too old to bear children. Others were
prone to genetic diseases. Some suffered from fertility problems, while
others never thought of themselves as parents. They agreed to join the
program, because they wanted to live, not because they would be particularly
beneficial to the movement. Some stasis pods even malfunctioned, and killed
their occupants long before they could be revived. The rich and the lucky
survived, while all the poor people perished in the nuclear holocaust, which
was already ironic, given why it was they were doing any of this in the
first place. They were doomed from the start, even if everyone came out of
stasis alive, was biologically suited for the task, and wanted to do it,
because they did not have the numbers. Only a few committed themselves to
realizing their dreams, but it just wasn’t enough. They died out within two
generations, and that was that for the efilversals. Yet they did not go
extinct without leaving a legacy. During their final years, the Ochivari
showed up, only looking to expand their empire. The efilversals taught them
what they had done—how they had fixed their world, which was the only
successful part of their plan. The Ochivari weren’t willing to become
efilists themselves, but it did spark the idea to be antinatalistic instead.
They went back to their homeworld of Worlon, and fought in a great war,
which saw the antinatalist faction to victory. This was when they began
their crusade. They returned to efilverse, and started using that planet as
their new homebase, and from there, they began to travel to other branes,
where they would sterilize any civilization destined to make the same
mistakes as them.
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