Chapter 2: Shoggoth civilization from 48,000 BCE to 2157 CE
In this chapter we see the development of the civilization of the Shoggoths and how far they spread across the stars.
On that little world that would have called Earth but was now called Amorphous Prime, Shoggoth civilization developed and grew rapidly. They were united under the leadership of their Emperor D'rius, along with his Council of Elders. They built their first city in their new home and named it "Blobton." It was a city of green cyclopean masonry and nightmarish non-euclidean geometry.
Different job sectors were developed such as the Agricultural sector, the Industrial Sector, and the Religious Sector. There were many farmers, fishers, hunters, workers, priests, and officials being deployed. From their first city on this world, the Shoggoth race settled more and more cities on both land and sea.
Nyarlathotep appeared to the priests among the Shoggoths in dreams and visions. He guided them in making important decisions that would affect their developing empire. Many large temples were built in his name, featuring many statues and artwork of his many forms as well as the history of the Shoggoth race.
As the Shoggoths encountered the different lifeforms on their homeworld, they studied them and devoured them. They learned of new biological structures, how they functioned and how they could be used. They also encountered an upright species of furry mammals that worked with primitive tools. They ate them all and gained a new body shaped they could use that was considered humanoid.
As the climate shifted and new environments were explored, the Shoggoths adapted. In cold places they could grow fur. In desert areas they grew scales. Eventually, the Shoggoth conquered the entire world, from the highest mountains to depths of the oceans. Any nasty predatory fauna was killed through the use of poisons, venoms, spike, claws, fire, and blades.
The Shoggoths learned to make their own artificial tools as well as to use magic. Family life among the Shoggoths looked like this: polygamous or monogamous spouses live together in their homes; they have children together; the parents raise their children and go to work; the children learn about the culture and history of their people from their parents, then later from their teachers; and so on like the families of other races.
After many thousands of years, Amorphous Prime was a world full of bustling cities. The Emperor announced to his people one day that they would start colonising more worlds. To achieve this, the Shoggoth Empire created various tentacle limbed, reptilian bioships ranging from 1 to 4 kilometers long. The 1 km long ships would serves as colony ships while the 4 km long bioships would serve as their escorts.
The escorts were equipped with large organic cannons that shot out living projectiles shaped like sharp spines of bone with tentacles at their afts. These biological weapons were loaded with various payloads such as corrosive chemicals, flammable fluids, and deadly plagues of microorganisms. The tentacles were armed with claws that could rip apart asteroids.
The ships could propel themselves across stars by transitioning across the Warp, a dimension that merges slightly with other dimensions. For cruising within stellar systems, the bioships use both magic and chemical propulsion from thrusters located throughout their hulls. The Shoggoths communicated with each other through great distances using transmitted thoughts, which was enabled by their magic.
The Shoggoth Empire begun its Age of Exploration, first colonising the other worlds in the Solar System. The Shoggoths discovered an ancient base on Mars that belonged to the Protheans. In there they found out about mass effect technology as well as the war between the Protheans and the Reapers. They were worried about this for awhile until their God assured his priests by showing them that the Reapers were already dead.
The Shoggoths fully colonized the Solar System in the 35,000 Year of the Empire (13,000 BCE). The Shoggoths spread out from the Solar System into more worlds. The Shoggoth colonised various worlds, from ice worlds to volcanic worlds. They survived in harsh conditions by employing different adaptations they have gained from the various species they have studied and devoured.
In the year 48,900 YE (900 CE), the Shoggoth Empire had colonized 30% of the galaxy. They had encountered odd species on some worlds such as the Varren and Thresher Maws. Any hostile species were studied then wiped out. Their god, Nyarlathotep had guided them to where they should colonise worlds, unknowingly avoiding other sentient species.
The Shoggoths had spread themselves thin after such a long time of rapid colonisation. The Shoggoth Empire chose to further develop their colonies and build up large space fleets as their new goals in the following years. New bioships of sizes ranging from 10 km long to 16 km long are built for the new fleets. The new fleets would form the basis for the a new organization that would be called the "Amorphous Navy."
It was in the year 50,158 YE (2158 CE), that the Shoggoth Empire would encounter another living civilization. It was in a solar system containing a Shoggoth colonised garden world called Zanxir (Shanxi) where it happened. Shoggoth scientists found that there was a structure that was known as a Mass Relay, from information found in the Prothean Archives in Crimson (Mars), in the Zanxir System. The scientists intended to interact with the relay but they were warned off by the priests of the Church of the Crawling Chaos from interacting with the relay. The priests of the Empire told the Emperor about a vision from their God that warned them that they should not mess with a relay until the day it would it activate by themselves. As such, the scientists on Zanxir waited for the day the relay would activate.
On the day the relay activated, the colony of Zanxir had a population of 2 billion citizens and a regular defense fleet made up of twenty 4 km long small assault bioships and ten 10 km long medium assault bioships. The defense fleet was waiting to complete its patrol when the Mass Relay began glowing. The many green eyes of the bioships watched in both curiosity and anticipation as to what was coming in from the other side.