In the early days of the Ochivari’s crusade—from their perspective—finding
out whether a planet was suited for sterilization was a difficult task. They
had spaceships, but transporting these to other universes was problematic.
Each individual, with exceptions, will be born with the ability to travel
the bulkverse, but they can only transport so much mass. A ship requires a
lot of sacrifices, extremely precise timing, and can only happen on the
surface of a world with a breathable atmosphere. Basically what they do is
gather a bunch of Ochivari who they are willing to let die, and they will
all die. While only half of them need to die to open the portal, the
destructive force of sending a ship through it will kill the other half as
well. The ship, meanwhile, has to essentially fly towards the planet’s
surface, and risk simply crashing into it. Many have indeed crashed while
trying to figure out this timing. Even a portal large enough to accommodate
something so massive will evaporate quickly, so it’s not like they can open
one, and wait for the ship to be ready. Once the vessel does manage to get
through a portal, and begin exploring the new universe, gathering
information takes a lot of finesse. They have to watch any given planet from
afar, hoping to understand their history, and predict their future, well
enough to determine if they should let them live, or not. They’ve tried to
infiltrate the native population, but most people in the bulkverse are
human, and not enough cosmetic surgery can make an Ochivar look human. So
they walk around in hoods, and hope that no one notices them. They often do,
and it causes problems. Fortunately for them, infiltration got easier when
they found a group of humans willing to help.
In one universe, the human population of a version of Earth was
intentionally primitive. Their technology progressed just as it usually
does, but they halted it, and went backwards, in order to protect both
themselves, and their environment. Progress seemed to be creating more
problems than it solved, including an untenable barrage of wars. The
survivors of these wars collectively decided that it was not worth it. Their
main drive to come up with new inventions was to make life easier, and even
prolong life, but if fighting over resources killed too many people, then it
didn’t really make much sense. Without modern medicine, and other
life-supporting advancements, the death rate went back to where it was
before the world wars. So too did the infant mortality rate. Now, normally,
a species such as human will compensate for this decline by increasing the
birthrate. They may not even be conscious of it, but a couple will have more
children, knowing that some will die. That’s not what happened here. Parents
will have relatively few children, and if all of them die, and they can’t
pass on their legacy, then so be it. They will die themselves when it’s
time—which could happen rather soon without the proper medical
treatments—and their bloodline will just end. By the time the Ochivari found
them, the population was at about a billion, leaving them well spread out
across the globe, and impacting their environment to a minimal degree.
Within two centuries, they would have probably become extinct, and they were
perfectly content with this. So they understood the logic behind
antinatalism, and were eager to help the Ochivari in their cause. They were
a lot better at infiltrating other human planets, which led to better
intelligence, which honestly, actually probably saved a few worlds from
being unduly sterilized when they didn’t truly fit the parameters.
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