[Cyrien]

Year 2411.4

The newest Elder to join the council floated in the remote Ether of Munjumb IX. He contemplated the past of his people and wondered what they would make of the future.

He thought back to the ancient origins of his people now lost in antiquity. When they had once moved across the stars and had mapped much of the Galaxy and had moved and shaped planets and stars and even the greatest forces of the Universe. One of the few legacies they retained from that time were indeed the ancient maps of this quadrant of space.

His people had always been caring and upon finding many forms of life already developing on many of the planets they had decided to seperate themselves and watch from the swirling clouds of their favored gigantic planets that so few other life forms seemed to enjoy.

Alas time will have its way with all life. And so it was that the EEE lost their way. How this happened or what specifically it was had been purged from all records and not even the most Anciant of the Elders could remember back to those ancient times. The records simply showed that in the span of a single year the EEE met a terrible fate. Some speculated that this was caused by forces that they toyed with beyond their understanding and lead to their downfall. The story tells of arrogance in mastery of all that surrounds them and unchallenged supremacy, for no other life as advanced as they had ever been found, indeed no other life capable of sentient thought had been found. The truth of these ancient stories will likely never be known.

It has been many Millenium since then however and now the simple lifeforms that once thrived on the many planets spoken of in the records have grown sentience and have themselves begun to attempt to master the Galactic edges about them. Only with the first contacts with these new races did the EEE once again begin to stir.

Only with the stirring did they once again become aware of the few others of their kind still scattered through Space. Slowly they came together and began to make sense of themselves once again.

The process of reawakening was begun. They once again gathered a council of Elders together to rule as the EEE collectively decided. They rapidly found that though many of their ancient masteries had been lost they still possessed technology that other races had no knowledge of. This proved to be fortunate as soon the EEE found themselves underattack by a dreadfull foe. A foe that consumed the EEE wherever they turned. A foe that was ruthless and primitive. The EEE lost several of their worlds to this foe but harnessing some of the peaceful technologies from their past they utilized their own energy focusing abilities and were able to fight the foe back. For now.

The newest council of Elders had been selected to deal with the obviously hostile and insecure races around them. Not all had proven so hostile as those called the Jraenar which sought to consume the EEE. Many others had sought to peacefully exist with the EEE. The EEE would seek to teach and nurture all of these races as best it could. First they would have to regain their own lost past to ensure the future of as many of these infant species as possible.

The Elders energy field shimmered through the mists as he broke away from his deep thoughts. Slowly he floated back to join with the other Elders. There was much to be done.