Aquari

by DD White

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  Meanwhile Beataphoriah spun in an infinite loop of some virtual realm of reality located somewhere on the planet Urania. Unlike the Uranian legends about him that were shrouded in the obscurity of antiquity along with the propaganda of religious conditioning, Beataphoriah actually had been created a virtual being made of quanta-optic-nanocode. Quanta-optic-nanocode had been developed by the ancient Nephapricans who were probably also the gods that spoke to the Aungtalli priests, if indeed any gods were speaking to them. This quanta-optic-nanocode being became imprisoned in a digital loop over 43,251 Earth years ago, or over 423,145 Uranian years, well beyond the beginning of the planet’s recorded history. That evidently had been when the gods imprisoned the virtual being in this infinite loop. Beataphoriah actually established contact with the gods by using a quanta-communication device of the star-door, which it had been created to control and manage. It was a time in pre-history when Beataphoriah would take the Uranian form and mingle with the pre-history Uranian bird-people. Their bodies were more covered with the feather-like hair back then, but they were just as intelligent and even more eloquent with the Uranian’s evolving language of whistles and chirps.

  At first it had been a good thing, and Beataphoriah became a great ancient god who taught the ancient Uranians many things. Eventually however, it got out of hand with rivalry, war, and pollution. Beataphoriah just lost all control of the evolving multitudes of bird-people who were excited with learning and finding new energy sources as well as devising higher and higher technologically advanced implements of war and destruction. Beataphoriah, in a panic, figured out how to make contact with the ancient Nephapricans who had disappeared long ago in the second age of Magphoreus. Beataphoriah figured that they could help it control the Uranian’s destructive tendencies. The Nephapricans answered the desperate call of Beataphoriah to help save the Uranians from destroying the whole planet, and for that Beataphoriah got rewarded with an eternal prison sentence, left alone to iterate within an infinite loop of quanta-nanocode. The beings who responded to the cry for help did not look like ancient Nephapricans, and they called themselves Devasuras. The Devasuras began controlling Uranian society through the chosen ones called the Aungtalli, which was an ancient name for the mountain on the north pole where the ancient star-door still functioned buried under the golden Uranian dirt of long lost ages, and a hundred miles of glacial ice known as the Great Glacial Mountain.