"Tamias. We're here." Wes Franklin announces in a solemn voice as with the press of a few buttons and the turning of a dial he sets his the star ship on a close pass of a celestial object known as a brown dwarf or failed star. There are many failed stars in the galaxy. 1 brown dwarf for every six fully fledged stars to be more precise. These strange objects are larger than planets but did not attain enough mass for hydrogen fusion to take place within their cores. In essence they were unable to stoke the flames necessary to shine as fully fledged stars do. Hence why Brown dwarfs are failed stars.
Tamias gazed out the window at the massive Jupiter sized brown dwarf. He heard of such objects through science books in his high school days and through the Global net. But this brown dwarf was not just any run of the mill dwarf as described by science. No this one was different. Wes told him that this one lurked in a very distant orbit from the sun near the heliopuase, the edge of the Sun's direct influence upon the space around it. But there was more to it then that.
Tamias felt a since of dread as he gazed down at the failed star below. His heart beat quicken and his muscles tensed as the menacing red glow piercing through turbulent black clouds of its stormy atmosphere radiated with over whelming anger and utter rage. It was shear jealousy, the chipmunk could seance from the foreboding object filling the view through the window with its evil presence.
"Nemesis!" Tamias's voice muttered. He was staring at the face of Eternal Darkness, the very thing chipmunks had sworn to defend the light and good from.
"Why did you bring me to this dreadful place Wes?" Tamias turned to Wes his voice was filled with anxiety unsure why his good friend brought him to the source of the very thing chipmunks struggled against. It was akin to bringing a christian before Satan.
"Heh I can tell that we found the very thing we are looking for." Wes smirked.
"What do you mean by this." Tamias asked insistantly "Are we going to destroy this vile thing once and for all?"
"No. I am a time traveler Tamias." Wes replied. "Yes I have the power to obliterate Nemesis right now. But my protocols forbade me from doing so."
"Then why are we here?" Tamias spoke, frustrated that indeed the darkness could be defeated once and for all.
"You and your kind must be the ones to destroy Nemesis." Wes answered. "Well then let me do it. I can call upon the Synergy Crystal to defeat it once and for all here and now."
"No!" Wes stoped Tamias with his hands placed firmly on his shoulders. "You cannot do it now"
"Then this whole trip was just some gloried sight seeing tour?" Tamias huffed. His frustration was odviously clear now.
"I brought you here to show you what you are up against, Tamias." Wes began his voice was ever calm and gentle. "You see, most of what your divine destiny teaches is true. Nemesis is the source the so called Eternal Darkness. And you and your kind will face her in a final battle. But as you can see by the size and scope of her. Not even the help of the Synergy Crystal will defeat her once and for all. You will need more than that. Nemesis is deadly, she was responsible for the great die off that ended the Cambrian era, the destruction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and Fall of Humanity from its dominance of the earth, and now she is responsible for instilling the hatred that drives the HSO onward in its quest restore humanity to dominion over animals."
Tamias sighs. "If the Power of Tawa is not enough to destroy this vile thing, then what is?"
Wes smiles "Heve you ever heard of Type 1, Type 2, Type3, and Type 4 civilizations?"
The chipmunk looks up at Wes puzzled.
Wes smiled again as he explained.
"Well Tammy, a Type 1 Civilization is a single planetary wide civilization. A Type 2 civilization is one that colonizes multiple star systems. A Type 3 controls the entire galaxy they live in. Not even a super nova is able to destroy them. A Type 4 is what my kind and I are. We can travel to any galaxy in the universe and travel through time itself."
Wes places his hands on Tamias shoulders and smiles a reassuring smile. "I wanted you to see the face of the enemy that threatens you. You see despite the struggles you deal with on your world, you and the rest of the earthing are at the cusp of achieving Type 1 status. Nemesis knows this which is why she instilled the hatred that drives the HSO. She wants the divisiveness the HSO causes to prevent your world from going Type 1. Because if you manage to cross that most important threshold, the other Types will come very quickly with the advance of technology. At that point she is doomed because Type 2 and beyond is unstoppable to her. Unable to defeat a type 2 and beyond all she can do is live in the hatred and jealousy of being a failed star for the rest of time until she cools down and dies a slow cold death in the very darkness she wishes upon your world and those of the light."
Tamias took a moment to process on this.
"Wes take me home. There is allot of work that needs to get done."
With that, Wes's starship breaks from orbit and takes off towards the distant Sun and Earth. Now the race is on for the Earth to become a Type 1 civilization and be on its way to overcome the worst Nemesis can throw at them before she does.
This artwork and background story I put together as a gift for wes13 https://www.furaffinity.net/user/wes13 for his up and coming birthday. So happy birthday you handsome Timelord X33
