Chronicles of Mother Earth
Book I: How It All Began
Chapter I: The Gians
By AppleofEnlightenment12
The story that set the stage for the three great ones to vanquish the inhuman pestilence began millions of years ago on a far off planet, in an unknown galaxy, called Gia. The inhabitants were unusual beings called the Gi, they were however more commonly known Gians. The Gian race consisted of extremely intelligent and nearly pitiless creatures that, in appearance, were eggshell-white creatures that had two white horns on their heads and soulless black eyes. Their most distinctive feature however, was that they lacked the ability to breathe in a gaseous environment, only in one of a liquid environment which is what their planet consisted of. Gians could initially speak two languages: their own personal tongue called Gianian, and a language that is attributable to the English language. The Gians were gifted with a strange power called PSI. PSI is a power where one uses his/her/its' minds' energy and concentration to manipulate the world around one's self or to entirely create forces of nature. PSI can be used either for offensive purposes, defensive purposes, or supportive purposes. In addition to PSI, they were also gifted with the greatest technology in the universe and the most revered scientific geniuses in universal history.
The Gians felt that they were the only race fit to rule the entire universe. They channeled this pride into hating, despising, and pitying the "inferior" races that seemed to be doing an inadequate job of ruling themselves let alone be able to possibly rule another race. For years, they harbored a desire to rule other planets, if not the whole universe. However, they wanted to give every other race a chance to improve their ways of life and rule in a way that benefited both other races and themselves. This chance of "waiting would span over 40 million years until their patience wore thin.
It was around the year 1880 A.D. (in Earth's structure of time), that the Gians finally decided that they were to begin their conquest of the universe. However, they lacked a main way of actually enforcing their power. If the Gians actually made an attempt to attack on foot, the results would be fruitless as the majority of planets had gaseous atmospheres which would cause a Gian to perish almost immediately. Despite the fact that their ships were powerful, they were specifically designed for travel in a liquid environment and hadn't the faintest idea of how to make one that could travel in other varieties of atmospheres. An unlikely miracle however, came from a brilliant and famous scientist named Giamanas. Giamanas studied and experimented with the powers of good and evil, and discovered a way to channel good and evil into raw power. As a result from his research, he created a machine during his research that was powered by pure evil and hatred. If used by a Gian, they could dump their entire being and become an epitome of the power of evil. However, it came at the expense of a Gian's own sanity and physical form, but that was a chance the Gians were more than willing to take. The best part about this machine was that it wasn't restricted to a liquid atmosphere and could be used in any environment with virtually no trouble whatsoever. In the Gians' tongue, they called this machine the digammakappa. When translated into the English language, the translation read as "Devil's Machine".
The Gians used artificial energy feeding methods on their soldiers in order to prepare for the intense effect that the machine had on a regularly healthy and strong Gian. Once a Gian dumped it's consciousness into the Devil's Machine, it horribly mutated them into formless and frightening beings that had infinite amounts of power. After the machine was filled up, the Gians sent them off to various places all over the universe. One after the other, entire races had become victims to the Gians' power and dominating will. Some even became slaves and servants to them, such as the Mook and the Shambler races. If a race tried to resist and fend off the Gians' conquest, that planet was ultimately obliterated. Over 5000 different planets in over 200 different galaxies had fallen victim to the Gians' nigh invincible power. Sadly, over 3000 planets were destroyed due to their unwillingness and/or stupidity to kneel before the Gians' power.
Around the year 1906 C.E, the Gians made a startling discovery: a planet that was unlike any other planet in the universe that they had discovered thus far. This planet was called Mother, better known to its inhabitants as Earth. The Gians were surprised by what they saw, as the Human race were not unlike themselves (not in the aspect of physical form), in their ability to learn and store vast amounts of intelligence and use it to better themselves and possibly even races besides themselves. They felt that humans, while somewhat flawed, could prove to be useful and maybe even become equals in the eyes of the Gian race.
When the Gians decided that they needed two human samples in order to study their genetic makeup so they could better understand them, they held off sending a Devil's Machine since they did not want to destroy or conquer Earth. It was here that the Gians were at an impasse and were stuck in deciding on how to deal with Earth since, once again, a Gian was totally incapable of landing on the surface due to the fact that Earth had a gaseous atmosphere instead of one similar to Gi and would perish in a matter of seconds. Luckily, a recent development came about due to the vast amounts of data from the thousands of planets that they conquered over the years. They studied planetary environments enough to the point that many new kinds of transportation that could withstand every kind of atmospheric condition were invented.
Now armed with this new technology, they immediately sent an armada to capture the two pure citizens in the largest country they could find: America. The armada was under the command of a newly promoted lieutenant named Giegue. The two pure citizens that were finally chosen were a newlywed couple from Podunk. The man was named George, and the woman was named Maria. George and Maria were eventually captured and brought to Gi to be studied. Instead of keeping them imprisoned like they usually would with other races they examined, they allowed them free roam of their planet in specially designed pressure suits that allowed them to survive in the liquid atmosphere of Gi and be able to do whatever they wanted. Despite the fact that both were homesick, George and Maria grew attached to Gi and it became as much of a home as Earth once was.
But something happened then, the Gians could not even begin to predict or intend. Giegue and Maria developed an unconditional love for one another and became inseparable. Maria had no children of her own, so she treated Giegue like he was her own flesh and blood. In a Gian point-of-view, Giegue was "poisoned" by Maria's love and kindness. Despite the fact that the Gians were both irritated and confused by what was happening, they ultimately paid it no mind as nothing detrimental could possibly come of it. One day, when Giegue was cuddling up with Maria one day. Because she was both a highly paid songwriter and feeling so gay with happiness, she began to sing a wordless tune that she had written herself (but had no intention of selling). Suddenly, and without warning; Giegue screamed with pain and began thrashing around everywhere, writhing in pain. This left Maria bewildered, disturbed, and stunned as she could not understand what she had done wrong, but she quickly let it go because she could never hate Giegue. Likewise, Giegue couldn't find it in his heart to hate and stay away from Maria and continued to show the same kindness and love he felt before she sang. On the whole, Maria remained content living on Gi, had no intention of leaving, and did not have any problems whatsoever.
The same however, could not be said for George. He had become obsessed and amazed by the fact that the Gians could perform PSI. Whenever he got the chance, he would watch a Gian do it, and take down detailed notes (drawings, journal entries, etc). When he asked, the Gians agreed to teach him the secret of PSI. Over time, George quickly learned every aspect of using PSI and was given the rank of Omicron (Master). Even though he mastered this power, he became both envious and unsatisfied at the fact that the Gians greedily hoarded this power for themselves and would not share it with anyone or anything. He often dreamt about what it would be like if humans had the gift of PSI.
Because they could see his dreams (due to the fact that both Maria and him being studied), the Gians became angered by this and came to the conclusion that the dreams correlated with the high possibility that George had the intention of teaching PSI to the rest of humanity. When they confronted him in regards to this, they told him that they were very displeased having found out what he intends to do with PSI. After much arguing, the Gians forced George to promise to never tell a single being about PSI, because they felt that such powers belonged only to "gods" such as themselves. Despite the fact that George swore that he would not do so, he had absolutely no intention of keeping it. Two years later, George had mustered the courage up to escape Gi and set his plan into motion. There was one problem, he neglected to bring Maria with him as she was too enthralled and attached to Gi and Giegue to go with him. No matter he begged and pleaded for her to come with him, she would not budge. This greatly hurt and angered George, but there was not much he could do about it and escaped without her.
When George got to the Gian Space Hangar, he subdued all of the guards and soldiers on duty. To make sure that the Gians would not pursue him, he disrupted all forms of communication so the soldiers could not send for backup. He then hijacked a Gian Space Cruiser and blasted off of Gi and reached Earth in approximately ten days. During those ten days, his mind slowly began to deteriorate due to the loss of Maria, being away from Gi, and cabin fever.
When George reached Earth air space, the worst possible thing happened: he had lost total control of his ship. At the time, George had thought that some holy or godly force of some kind had interfered with the mechanisms of the ship, but in reality it was radioactive interference from the as-of-yet undiscovered Van Allen radiation belts. His ship began to burn up in the atmosphere as it headed toward an area about 10 miles away from Podunk. George crashed onto Earth and, miraculously, survived without injury. However, he was devastated when he found that the damage to the Gian Space Cruiser was irreparable and there was no earthly way for him to go back and get Maria.
Initially, George attempted to spread the word about PSI and tried pressing it, but people thought of him as a raving lunatic. No matter how hard he tried, he could not get anyone to believe him. Finally, he gave up realizing that humans were not ready to accept a concept as awesome and infinite as PSI. However, something unbeknownst to George occurred over a long period of time after he crashed landed on Earth that inadvertently set his dream into motion. The ship he used to escape Gi was made of a special alloy that for whatever reason gave people the ability to use PSI if they ingested it (breathing, eating, etc) and allowed many of their descendents to inherit the powers they possessed. The particles of the alloy sank into the Earth's crust and quickly spread into the very water, plants, and earth that people use and/or consume every day. Because of this, a few people gained what the public referred to as "psychic powers" over a long period of time.
Initially, PSI was confined to the country of America. However, like most biological phenomena; it quickly spread amongst the other countries on Earth such as Eagleland, Winters, Summers, Dalaam, etc. Even though the fantastic and wondrous gift of PSI spread like a wildfire amongst the human race… humanity would pay for its awful crimes… in a worldwide, catastrophic genocide which some claim to be the darkest time the world has ever seen.