The Menders

       


For 20,000 years our species has been on the "Special Mission." 20 millennia ago, my race advanced to a point where our technology and society got as close to perfection as you can get. We had a profound revolution of understanding which united our species and helped us overcome our destructive tendencies and our less dignified methods of operating. We no longer slaughtered each other, and the drive for war was replaced with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and truth. 

Our ability to innovate and develop ideas and our understanding of existence grew at an almost exponential level, and our technology got to the point where we could travel the stars. The first Star Emperor issued the Edict of the Four Worlds, what we now call the "Special Mission." The Special Mission, simply stated, was the assignment of our race to be repairers and menders of worlds.


 We advanced so quickly and so substantially not just technologically, but also socially and ethically. Even our morals advanced, collectively, to a much higher level. We no longer cared for things like war or conquest and our technology provided us with a situation to where resources and utilities became almost unlimited in terms of their abundance. We felt we were called to a higher purpose, and so when the Star Emperor issued the Four Worlds edict, we felt that that purpose had finally been given to us.

For 20,000 years we have traveled the universe on the special mission of repairing worlds. Repairing their societies, their ecosystems, their ethical shortcomings, their hierarchies, their institutions. We go from world to world doing this, and each world presents its unique challenges. The goal of course is to prevent the worlds we intervene in from destroying themselves. To prevent the annihilation of the species we encounter is one of our main priorities. We do not come as conquerors. We come as liberators. We use our advances to repair the worlds and restore them to a more dignified state. We want to fix, not break. Restore and not condemn. We try to prevent the death of dying worlds, and save the hopes and dreams of their inhabitants.

We live by the motto "Nothing is beyond repair," and with every world we encounter, we try to prove to the utmost the truth of that motto. 

    This world we are on proves to be one of the most difficult we've encountered since the Edict. It is ravaged by war. Diseases plague the cities, and oppression and terror dominate the minds and crush the dreams of the inhabitants. The entire world is suffering immensely, and repairing such a broken place seems to be one of our greatest challenges, but our motto has proven true thus far, and it will prove true again.

Nothing is beyond repair.


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