Hello, dear audience and welcome, or welcome back; glad you login-in to today episode of a Hitchhiker's guide across Garden of Galaxy. A series where we talk about space like creatures, fauna and flora; making they short family friendly like introduce. Yet please be aware, that as cultural perception change from planet to planet, even the universal translation is not without a flow. So as certain creature can look to one as and angel spreading a calming vibe that heal, for other it can be the demon making you feel sick just by looking at it.
Additionally; Please remember that monster tag is not attached to something that is to you: ugly, hostile, or do an evil thing from your perspective. But its actually an other name for hero#monster tag, and it belong to something that is invincible from start, until: A wide preparation to defeat has been made by a challenger. Challenger, also having hero#monster tag. Challengers, stats and equipment are equal or higher that its opponent. Challenger holding a destiny blessing, or is on its way to full-fill told destiny.
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I am your host, and I have prepared for you something special. So lets start…
Today topic is: A space dragon.
And I don't meant just a mystification or romanticized labeling or name tag-in, to anything that fits that vague definition. A something that leads to call an aquatic lobster as a dragon. It don't matter if it is small sea version like a crab or a big one leviathan like, dwarfing a star-liner cruisers.
We talking about the: Space-space dragon-dragon. The actual origin of that word, and the reason why the name dragon is somehow know across the galaxy and even in far regions. Get ready to uncover a mystery of galactic portions.
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Maybe we shall start with the big bang. We not talking about the birth of universe theory, or a star turning a supernova. We talking about about moment when a black hole finishing consuming its former galaxy, pulling into itself all matter that was in her sphere of gravity. If the table is clear, (dust included) (and other galaxies are to far to have an effect), our black stellar object is on its way to collapse under its own weight. Because around it, there is no insignificant gravity source left, that will try to stretch out the horizon of events of the black hole as a counter weight to its own gravity, this stellar object will start to sink, going supercritical pretty fast. At last, from the Black hole point of view.
As the matter is more and more compressed, particle evaporation radiating is no longer interesting, as this galaxy weight super furnace turning matter itself into primordial energy. But as gravity and time is directly bound to mass, and Black hole is in that sense a bomb that already ticking; The moment when enough of matter is turned into energy, the gravity that holds all that (mass and energy) in one place is gone. At this point the recycling process of the entire galaxy is done, black hole is not needed anymore and its time to dump everything out of furnace onto a plate. With a loud bang (figuratively), the little of matter that was on edge of black hole acting like a surface, is disconnected from whole like an inflated balloon of gas when it pop; Pieces of pooped balloon is shot into universe in super speed, dragging energy from center with it, stretching it across light years.
As many cultures got into a realization of equation that; (energy, equal mass times speed of light squared); is only a half of truth. When, the big bang, clearly spill out more on total, that black hole managed to suck up. Tell about self-preservation cheating mechanic of universe, where galaxy by every (dawn to dusk) cycle is getting bigger and bigger, until the big bang pop the black hole balloon so hard, that (explosion and repulsion) force taking parts of the balloon so far that it tear the big galaxy into smaller ones, sending them on they own journey.
Let that to happens, enough times and you have a beautiful large universe that expand in size and volume. Repeat that process enough times, until galaxy will be so full, and our universe (at last from middle perspective) it will turn into a liquid one, as vacuum will not be a valid basic variable. Even a black holes will at this point change a profession. But that's quite out of our reach from time perspective.
Lets go back to our galaxy that began to be. As the big bang cloud spread, energy is turning back to matter, and we getting a star cloud fresh out of oven. As stars are lighting up, sucking up cosmic soup of star cloud, fresh gravity field turning on a blender that causing a solar systems to be formed. Now, if there was no exterior source that will interfere with forming of a new galaxy, (like a near galaxy size neighbor), its shall have a shape of a ball, or an apple. If we zoom a little, we can notice that a crust formed right on its edge, or a protective skin like layer like on so many fruits. Yet if we zoom a lot, we can see something like layer of something that can look like a suspicious asteroid field, of identical rocks, floating on an often invisible astral waves that represent the reversed horizon of events, an actual border of effective collective range of a galaxy gravity. Jet, we can call this border as great astral ocean surface, that if you managed to resurface through it, you will notice that nothing important happening in wast void behind it. A perfect watch out spot to look at other galaxies in too far distance.
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So lets focus on the galaxy edge that resemble a flat like river, with flows and curtains that caring those rocks like a Microscopic plankton in water from oceanic worlds, but in galaxy scale. Just like plankton, the sheer amount of those rock are in astronomical numbers and are visible only when you know for what to look or to close to not miss them. Now, hear this; every single one of those, are a dragon prefab.
(Yes!), you heard me right; (not an egg, not an embryo, not a larva, seed or a child); its a prefab.
Now, here comes the tricky part. You see, many cultures refer to dragons in they legends and stories, ranging in all aspect, form, shape and or base. From organic, to collection of mass. From golems to machines. From spirits or ghost to collection of energy. It divert in intention from caretaker to devouter and so on. All of them are just a collection of local variables of true and false. So whats going on?
We shall put our cards on table, and declare; that dragons in they base form are old as galaxy. And as a species, they are older that the galaxy itself. Maybe they witnesses the dawn and dusk of a galaxy multiple times.
Yet, be aware that dragons as species are full of trick, mysteries and capability that seem straight as party trick, following they own rules. We talking about prefab, because a dragon yet to have a take its true form, manifest itself in its true color and purpose. And (Oh my…), the probably not seem to have a limit of what it can be. As species, dragons throwing the legendary question of; (What was first? The egg? Or a chicken?); out of galactic window.
(Spoiler alert:) The first was a fish lizard on shore, whose offspring embryos were too fragile for surface environment, so there was a need to harden the protection layer. Thus the egg was created. Then certain lizard needed to reach the sky and control its body temperature, so it exchanged scales for a feathers. Thus the chicken was created.
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Legs got back to our prefab, and lets say that a curious event happened somewhere. It can be truly anything, like an honest wish, a daring accomplishment, a bravery overcoming destiny, or a pure dream come a true. An echo of this event travel on an astral route, that like rivers flow between planets and stellar systems, until they reach the great ocean on the edge of galaxy. A certain prefab, liked that, received this letter or news and if it took an interest in what is in that letter it, awake from its deep slumber. A space dragon hatched into the galaxy. We say awake, but in reality a rock got animated, a dragon prefab got partially printed out, spreading its wings, becoming a dragon golem of golden metal rock color. A body of incredible firmness, having capability of a true wonder.
Jet, as this hatching look around, it see that all others from its wast family member are still sleeping, formless, just a rock; and no matter it do to them to wake them up, they will stay dormant as rocks. So, the hatched dragon, decide to wander inside to the galaxy, to explore and wonder. Like a diver diving to coral shore on a water like planets. Dragon, like a romantic, seeking an event, that was source of the letter it read, that awaken it. But, the original event can be long gone and the dragon itself is a wish released to galaxy to seek a place to settle.
And indeed, like a lone interstellar Travelers, they soar through countless tourist destinations across the galaxy in order to found they own romance.
The moment they found something they like, something that will charm them like a spell; for example a world (mostly a planet) full of certain type of live, stories or events, a next trick is revealed from they deck. They golem like body, finished its duty and its time to trade it, for something suitable.
During the event of a falling star, its wish to be part of local ongoing story, became a true. Like a reader who dive into the story it love, dragon will show its mastery in role playing as they literally descend from from role of observer, into a role of a newcomer character. They went through a radical change, transformation, Metamorphosis of transmutation. They meta-form not just a shape, soul, composition, turning rock into flesh or what ever, to adapt onto local environment. They can throw away they size, strengthen, abilities, just to grain the opportunity to be a part of local world. The body become an integrated part of the ecosystem as if it was from beginning. We can say that the prefab was finally fully printed out and spawned a real dragon. Yet the difference from what was before and now is amazing. Plus many world have dragons that differ in size and shape. They differ in a way of they live. Its amazing variety as some of them are tiny, weak, too simple or straightforward silly. Heck some of them become a space ship machine, acting like a carrying mother for its crew that become its family.
Now our dragon, reached its final personal form, become an integrated part of local world, founding its new family or joining one. Presence of dragon having such a strong impact, is such an important part of ongoing story, that it literally got down to local history, be recorded in cultural records and legends.
(Why they doing that?) you asking? (Why they just throw away all that power and everything else?) Well: (Personal priorities above all.) They former space dragon body fulfilled its duty to shipping them into they destination, into they romance, into they dream. Maybe its they interpretation of hobby, like a pro actor not just playing the role they like, but directly living it. Maybe they are something like an event catalyst on its mission to fulfill its duty. A reader searching for a book to read, jet staying for an entire series. Maybe they are representation of the windmill of destiny, or a source of life. Or maybe, its they call, they own thing to do. Like a collector who collect a things just because it like them.
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So lets step back out and ask; (How the heck?!, those prefab appears on the edge of newly form galaxy?) Did someone planted them there? Running somewhere some kind of factory?, printing them in a factorial rate? Or someone, somewhere, sometime; put down a rule, that every galaxy, (we not sure), shall have a protectors, that will be there from dawn to dusk. Or some hypothetical artist who worked on creation of our Universe, told to itself, that after a galaxy dawn, the waiting period for a life to emerge and be for some usefulness, is too long and boring. So it implanted into a game, a speeding up process mechanic.
If we glanced back, we see that some dragons who descend to they dream life, generated offspring in one form or other. Yet those offspring are already in meta-formed form, as they are from beginning part of the ongoing story. And it don't seems that they will ever make a change to it.
So, how the dragon prefabs got at the galaxy edge? If they were seeded by original creator, don't that means they amount are final and limited? So after some long enough time, a last one will hatch, daring to set on its lonely journey to found its dream.
They can be a children of black hole itself, who exchange whit a big bang a death kiss, at morning call for live to awake onto new day.
Some daring to say, that when dragon in its final and true form, on the end of its life story, will make an honest wish and drop its egg, (its imprint, its original prefab), into an astral realm. Safely stored there like eggs in sand or dirt, they will withstand the harsh night for galaxy, as they waiting for the start of a new game, a new morning in galaxy scale. Or they are send of; Like a seed drop into a spring, who is taken into a stream running between worlds, then into a river that flow between the stars, reaching great flow aiming toward the great ocean as final destination. On the edge of galaxy a prefab will be joining the rest of familia, forming a flow just like plankton do. Its like sending off they children, to found they own story.
Maybe, at the dusk of galaxy, as the black hole that won the battle royal, was trapping everything in the horizon of events, instead of spagetation of all that dragon prefabs, still outside, they sunk into some kind of astral like sub dimension. Like when aquatic crabs bury them-self into a sand beach. Together with old and new they are gathered at the middle, as dusk will spread across the galaxy calling for the end of story of this book.
Yet as regular matter is recycled in the black hole oven, those prefabs of dreams and wishes born of life, are protected from tempest of the nights, expecting a big bang, to throw them out into a new dawn as day in galaxy arrived again.
Only in the question of dragons, we expect that at dawn of a new book, at the start of the game or story, there will be like fans, already waiting for a story role to appear, for witch they had been born or prepared. Jet in scale of universe, the still awake dragons that maybe not found their dream during they golem phase are given a different route. Sure they too can burrow into a sub dimension at the dusk. But during the dawn, they use the big bang kick to get thrown into a void. As they dint found what they seek in this galaxy, they set on journey to explore a new frontiers, while the next generation awaiting they chance to seek for what will awake they interest, they love.
And that's why a dragon is a concept, that seems to transcend the cultural border, tingling our imagination and pushing the borders of what a mind is capable to comprehend.
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If you want to travel to edge of the galaxy to get your own dragon, we like to ask you to reconsider that decision, or at last wait to what we have to tell you. You see; those dragons dint like to be roughly, (unscheduled), awaken from they sleep. Not that you will success in that. Yet, if you get close to the surface of a great astral ocean, a collective defensive reaction will occur. Despite to be still a prefab, a dragon golem will manifest itself. Don't be fooled, even if you will see a sky full of dragons, every single one of them is still on sleep, waiting for the true destiny awaking. Yet, if you get too close to the night sky full of golden like dragons, they will attack, and mostly successfully destroy anybody, who dint flee, or try to pass the border without using a (Faster that light) travel.
But they do that destruction as an act of last mercy, because they are more like a guardians that jailer. More like an angel that a daemon. Be aware, that outside of the great astral sea of galaxy is just a void, until you reach an another galaxy sea. Many underestimating how dreadful is the wast cold emptiness and distance between galaxies. It can drive you insane sooner that you expect. So its better to put a lost soul out of its misery.
(We test it, a dragon, still in its prefab state, can sense a life, a mind, no matter what form it take. They are just a rock, but with a hive mind, that don't think. Jet they can jump the space itself, so kidnapping one will not end well as they don't stop coming to get they sibling back. Only then they become motionless again, ready to be taken by astral flow back to the great ocean surface.)
Someone can ask, why they dint conquer the galaxy? Probably, as a race, they maybe done it a few times already. But, having it so one side is maybe a too boring, and in-fight lack a diversity after some time. So at some point, they stop doing it. But, the Armagedon, Ragnarock or other variants of the end game capitol, are well know folk tale across the galaxy, yet nobody seem to claim it happened somewhere. (Jet the presence of the story itself can be a hint that it actually happened at sometime.) We can theorize that we are result of they actions and they conquering galaxy again and again simply by becoming a part of it.
If you still counting you chances to take on them, be aware that against cunning or brute force; stands against a flock of astronomical numbers. There more of them that stars on a night sky. Plus try imagine to fight a water river by individually combating every single water drop inside it.
Someone can claim, that its actually a mind of galaxy itself that control the dragons. It letting them respond, or giving a commands to do something. So they attack because you got somewhere where you shouldn't have been, or take something you shouldn't have.
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So here you have it, a lone travelers on they romantic journey. A trip across galaxy as they seek they new family, a story to be part of it. Based on perspective, they can be anything, from angel of grace, to demon of destruction. What do you know? Maybe a space dragon, is already a part of your own story, part of your family. It can be a pet that do a silly things, or a force that keep the wheels of event in motion. It just that its legacy is hiding inside of something, you will never suspect.
Thank you folks, to joining me on today episode of Hitchhiker's guide across Garden of Galaxy, until next time; (I am logging off!)