Long
long ago, before the dawn of time and space, a being of unfathomable
scale and power took its last breath, its limp body sinking through
the surrounding void, veins bleeding time and body rotting into
universes, but some universes were made of flesh that wasn't so
decayed, that was fresh enough that it still had some of that
infinite power that every primordial scavenger sought to harness, and
harness they did, creating vast inter-universal empires headed by
warlords wielding god-like power, who hoarded their territories like
raccoons, if raccoons were so inclined to hold territory, but some
raccoons are more ambitious than others, and warlords were no
different, as one of them, Ygadle, had a scheme, by using their
near-infinite power, they could repurpose one of their universes into
a device known as the Eternity Engine, a hyperspherical construct,
quadrillions of light years in diameter, with the capability of
pumping the temporal blood back into the corpse from which all
reality grew, and in doing so, reversing the flow of time itself,
allowing the warlord to revitalize the putrid remains and harness
even more of the god-being's energy to conquer reality, but there was
just one issue: every other warlord knew about the Eternity Engine,
and so every faction came down on Ygadle in a war lasting billions of
years, where soldiers died by the trillions for only an inch of
progress, but even after Ygadle and their forces were long gone, the
other warlords fought over control of the device, extending the war
into uncountable epochs, until finally, the last warlord, Glthmir,
stood triumphant as the sole, all-powerful dictator of existence, but
as the Eternity Engine was built to provide an advantage in the turf
war, and Glthmir was already the most powerful being alive, any
additional power granted by the Eternity Engine would be superfluous,
but an unquenchable lust for ever more power drove Glthmir to
activate it anyway, as everyone in existence watched with awe that
swiftly turned to horror as the Eternity Engine worked too well, the
flesh of the corpse became too revitalized, and shook the foundation
of reality as the god-being, whose death facilitated the continued
existence of all this new life, arose once more and carried on its
way, completely oblivious to all the history, civilization, and lives
that were lost by its reawakening.
1: Morality is a mostly human-made invention to categorize actions and behaviors of other humans as either desirable (good) or undesirable (bad). Morality is not a binary, obviously there's a lot of grey area, in fact, most of it is grey-area, but my larger point is that ascribing it to stuff that isn't human gets messy. Is a lion "bad" for eating an elk? Is water "good" for hydrating us? Is lightning "a douche" for turning my hotdog into ash? The answer to all of these is, probably, no. This was a longwinded way of saying that I don't think Tilikum was the villain in this situation. Were they the victim? Broadly speaking, yes. SeaWorld, famously, is a factory for marine-mammal misery, and if the article is anything to go by, Sealand was basically the equivalent of orca hell, “If you pen killer whales in a small steel tank, you are imposing an extreme level of sensory deprivation on them,” . The villain of this story, in my op...
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