u/BelleHades

God appeared as an elderly man from India, kinda looking like Gandhi, but more attractive, and his wife appeared more middle aged, also from India.

I was on a train that kinda looked like those San Francisco trolleys, but as proper passenger trains. Leading up to the encounter was me remembering a past life event.

The past life event was 5 million years ago. We had similar advanced tech like today's 2020's. An apocalyptic event was upon us. I was on a volcanic island that was about to blow, almost like 1883's Krakatoa. We were scrambling to get off. I found my soul mate, a woman named Veli, and I was trying to get her to leave with me, but somehow we got separated as we tried to leave.

The scene changed and I found myself on a ginormous planet that was 10 times Earth's radius (like Jupiter), but zooming in and out, it may have very well been 100 times Earth's radius. I've been on similarly huge worlds in previous dreams, and the scales involved boggled the mind. This world was one I've been to in a previous dream, but it seemed to alternate between Earthlike and Mars-like. I eventually found myself over a huge ocean that was hundreds if not thousands of miles deep. I was trying to fly a jet airliner thru a Day After Tomorrow style super hurricane, and it kept crashing into the ocean (without breaking, like video game invincibility), so I gave it warp drive to keep it in flight and defy the extreme winds. No dice, it still crashed. Additionally, I saw Veli drown so badly in this impossibly deep ocean that she will never be able to reincarnate again.

Now I'm on the train, speaking to God and his Wife. I don't remember what name she used, but God told me that the Yuga cycles are indeed real, and they repeat in 4 to 5 million year cycles, and they have been going on for most of Earth's habitable lifetime.

(This reminds me of a dream I had years ago where it was 90 million years before today, and humans were co-existing with dinosaurs, again with today's technologies. There was a large sea thru the middle of North America. Upon waking up, I checked the internet, the sea was there in real life! The Appalachians were like the Rockies in that dream too!)

God told me that I've generally had lifetimes towards the end of Yuga Cycles, during the advance technology eras, at least more recently. My current life from where I am typing this will be the last for this Yuga Cycle. My last three lifetimes are in the next yuga cycle, again towards the end during advanced tech eras. After that I won't need to anymore and I will be free.

I asked God how long the Yuga Cycles will continue, and he said for one billion more years until the end of Earth's habitability due to the aging sun. "After that, we'll see." God's wife finished. (Iirc, I don't recall when she contributed to the convo, as I've had additional dreams before getting up).

I asked about other planets, and God responded and said that Earth is all there ever will be for life. I also commented that the last Yuga cycle billion years from now piqued my interested, and the Divine couple immediate said I wouldn't like it, it would be a time of the worst suffering in Earth's history, due to the ending of Earth's habitability.

And that was the end of this dream.

I real life, a month ago or so, I calculated the Yuga Cycles back to the time of the Dinosaurs, and based on the math, it was entirely possible that the Chicxulub impact triggered their final Kali Yuga for them.

LATER EDIT: I just remembered an important bit; at start of the apocalyptic event itself 5 million years ago, I had a phone line that magically told everyone on Earth whatever I said into it, so I said something along the lines of, "To not have to re-incarnate anymore, just be a loving, kind person. Love yourself, love your neighbor."

And, what terrain mods are you using, if any?

In 1999, I created the greatest story of my life; my worldbuilding project, about a sci-fi benevolent Empire named after my favorite planet, Pluto. I have already pledged my remaining lifetimes to it, perhaps to one day defy the odds, elevate it beyond mere storytelling, and defy the universe's will and liberate people from the tyranny of our cosmic dystopia. Defiance is my spirit, and I won't take no for an answer.

This is a massive shot in the void, I know, but I do not expect to survive the next few years in our worsening dystopia, especially due to my disabilities. What can I do to preserve my current works to pick up in my next life?

I feel like digital preservation probably won't work, since we are likely to backslide technologically even if we do survive our current crisis as a species. And disk rot is, unfortunately, a thing.

Are there any long lasting ink or paper that can hold on a least for a few centuries; assuming I take that long to re-incarnate?

If not, and I happen to re-incarnate on another planet, or a different millennium, what can I do to preserve the astral memory of it?

A wise man plants the tree whose shade he knows he will never sit under, after all.

Like, for example, the music from the movie Casper, I watched a lot as a kid, and I really liked the music. Yet now, as an adult, it seems annoyingly higher pitched than when I was younger.

This along with my other faves as a kid as well.

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

I'm lifetime HoH, with hearing aids my whole life.

It's very peculiar. Idk what is causing it, but it is quite frustrating.

Here's my mod list, fwiw: https://pastebin.com/nfLzJV1w

Load order: https://pastebin.com/zBtFQvR4

More and more, I'm seeing quest bugs that completely block progress, and it's only getting worse. Yesterday, the catch a horker quest in Western Skyrim failed to spawn the horker, and now today, the light maze in Arkzthand Library in the Reach won't let me move all the crystals. Both times, quitting and relogging, or abandoning and redoing the quest, simply did not fix it.

These are the ones I remember, but more and more quests are suffering bugs that completely block progress.

Is anyone else experiencing worsening quest bugs?

Bluesky is the only social media I know of that can let you blacklist keywords, and it seems the more aggressively I add dog-related keywords to my feed moderation settings, the more aggressively the app shoves these demons down my throat. It is quite infuriating.

I was at my old, terrible group home again, after having to move back in after 9 years because my current place kicked me out. The terrible boomer owner was still there, having not aged a bit (in real life, they retired and moved out of state). I had the tv too loud and couldn't figure out how to mute it; it was late at night and I woke up the roommates. There was a long drama throughout the whole dream that began before moving back in, that I vaguely remember as a road trip that went wrong.

(I used to remember much more of my dreams, if you look up my past posts here, but aging and depression sucks. :/ )

Eventually something bad was happening again so I left; I went outside and started flying, but like always the last 20 years, I couldn't get higher than the power lines. I went west, and followed the town's major highway, going north. Like in similar dreams I've had previously, it morphed into a hallway.

There I encountered The Devil, who took the form of Robin Williams, with his mannerisms and everything, and yet I immediately recognized him. I asked him about God and the universe and such, but he said that there was no other life out there, only on Earth, and that Earth was all there ever was, and all there ever will be. I asked why, and he touched me with his cold hand, and I woke up to a nasty itch on the back of my leg.

What do y'all think?

Go into configs\main-user.cfg, scroll down to LifeGenerator, and copypasta this code to that section:

ProbLifeOrgTerra        0        // probability of origin of organic life on non-arid worlds (surface & ocean)
ProbLifeOrgOceania      0        // probability of origin of organic life on ocean worlds (ocean)
ProbLifeOrgDesert       0        // probability of origin of organic life on arid worlds (surface)
ProbLifeOrgIceWorld     0        // probability of origin of organic life on ice worlds (subglacail)
ProbLifeOrgGiant        0    // probability of origin of organic life on gas giants (atmosphere)
ProbLifeExotTerra       0        // probability of origin of exotic  life on non-arid worlds (surface & ocean)
ProbLifeExoOceania      0        // probability of origin of exotic  life on ocean worlds (ocean)
ProbLifeExoDesert       0        // probability of origin of exotic  life on arid worlds (surface)
ProbLifeExoIceWorld     0        // probability of origin of exotic  life on ice worlds (subglacail)
ProbLifeExoGiant        0    // probability of origin of exotic  life on gas giants (atmosphere)
ProbPanspEjectTerra     0        // Probability of organic life spores ejection  on asteroid impact on non-arid worlds (surface & ocean)
ProbPanspEjectOceania   0        // Probability of organic life spores ejection  on asteroid impact on ocean worlds (ocean)
ProbPanspEjectDesert    0        // Probability of organic life spores ejection  on asteroid impact on arid worlds (surface)
ProbPanspEjectIceWorld  0        // Probability of organic life spores ejection  on asteroid impact on ice worlds (subglacial)
ProbPanspEjectGiant     0    // Probability of organic life spores ejection  on asteroid impact on gas giants (atmosphere)
ProbPanspInsertTerra    0        // Probability of organic life spores insertion on asteroid impact on non-arid worlds (surface & ocean)
ProbPanspInsertOceania  0        // Probability of organic life spores insertion on asteroid impact on ocean worlds (ocean)
ProbPanspInsertDesert   0        // Probability of organic life spores insertion on asteroid impact on arid worlds (surface)
ProbPanspInsertIceWorld 0        // Probability of organic life spores insertion on asteroid impact on ice worlds (subglacial)
ProbPanspInsertGiant    0    // Probability of organic life spores insertion on asteroid impact on gas giants (atmosphere)
LifeOrgAgeUni           100.02    // mean value of system age to develop unicellular    organic life (in billion years)
LifeOrgAgeUniDisp       10.01    // dispersion of system age to develop unicellular    organic life (in billion years)
LifeOrgAgeMulti         200.05    // mean value of system age to develop multicellular  organic life (in billion years)
LifeOrgAgeMultiDisp     20.01    // dispersion of system age to develop multicellular  organic life (in billion years)
LifeOrgAgeComplex       300.08    // mean value of system age to develop complex ground organic life (in billion years)
LifeOrgAgeComplexDisp   30.01    // dispersion of system age to develop complex ground organic life (in billion years)
LifeExoAgeUni           200.04    // mean value of system age to develop unicellular    exotic  life (in billion years)
LifeExoAgeUniDisp       20.01    // dispersion of system age to develop unicellular    exotic  life (in billion years)
LifeExoAgeMulti         300.08    // mean value of system age to develop multicellular  exotic  life (in billion years)
LifeExoAgeMultiDisp     30.01    // dispersion of system age to develop multicellular  exotic  life (in billion years)
LifeExoAgeComplex       400.12    // mean value of system age to develop complex ground exotic  life (in billion years)
LifeExoAgeComplexDisp   40.01    // dispersion of system age to develop complex ground exotic  life (in billion years)

Very depressing, but (unfortunately), most realistic. ;)

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That is one of the most evil entities in existence. The ancients were right about it, yet I'm pretty sure it had it's hand in prominent modern astrologers espouting apologist propaganda defending that demonic entity.

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What gives?

We have been around for over six billion years. In all this time, we've never been able to leave our system, due to the limits imposed on our reality by the laws of physics. Our world is precious, an oasis in the never ending night. Even more so since our system has teetered on the edge of stability for almost nine billion years, being a circumbinary system after all. But, we still exist. The wandering stars have been our faithful companions for countless eons.

Two suns at the center, Persephone and Hades, with two giants between them and us, and then there's our world, third from our two suns. We know her now as Belle Hades, inspired by our current climate. As Persephone got older and hotter, we did our damnedest to keep Belle Hades alive. Had we not kept our sacred relationships to our biosphere, we might very well have failed. Sure, we have advanced technology, but the limits of our reality remain the same. And we also have nine more worlds further from Persephone and Hades from us.

Belle Hades was young when we came around. Almost two billion years into her life. Our ancient matriarchs knew we were special. That our world was special. Every deviant that got greedy, we ended right then and there. It took us dozens of millions of years to attain the technologies we've had for six billion years. Advanced recycling, renewables, and slow, painstaking mining operations that adhered to strict environmental guidelines. We've avoided fossil fuels like the plague, and our world remains eternally grateful.

But for as long as we've watched the stars beyond, we knew one thing. We are alone. Always have been. Every advance in the astronomical sciences have proven this time and again. As the eons went by, our galaxy lost her blue hue as she matured and her stars grew older, becoming a milky white. Our system orbits her every quarter billion years. Each time we "return" to the relative spot our system formed, our constellations have been vastly different. Each with their own stories, as storytellers and filmmakers reveal new stories the stars form as the eons go by.

But four or five billion years ago, we passed a star-forming region. We always do, from time to time. But the Seers, people who see the unseen with their own eyes and psyche, they saw something different about this one. Something special. A star, much like our Persephone, was born. The astronomers of the age were eager to track it. Analyzed it in depth. Most strikingly, the newborn sun's galactic orbital path would make close encounters with us twice a galactic year. As the proper motions slowly pulled the new sun out of the range of our most detailed astronomical instruments, we saw evidence of a major collision. Luckily, some time afterwards, we could see transits from that star. We saw two worlds a bit bigger than ours. The one with the longer year seemed inflated, possibly due to the debris from the collision we saw.

Since then, every half galactic year, we have indeed seen this younger system. It was a G star, like our Persephone, but slightly less massive. For most encounters, it was not much different than the other stars that get near us sometimes. But again, the Seers insisted there was something special. Indeed, almost twenty encounters ago, or two billion years ago, we detected oxygen in the atmosphere of it’s third planet for the first time when it transited it's sun. A few encounters after that, it was extremely cold. We knew that lifeless worlds wouldn't do that on their own. Since then, society has been thrilled. We realized we had been watching the only other world in the entire known universe to have life. We could also tell that this world was a bit larger than ours; and based on the collision we saw so long ago, it should have a large moon like we do.

Since then, there have been countless stories, movies, and video games about this system. What would life be like on it? What biomes could it have? Could it someday grow a civilization like ours? It was a very, very long shot, of course. But for then, we took comfort in the fact that at least one other wandering star could bear advanced life. Indeed, in the last encounter over a hundred million years ago, when we again got to observe the system's planets transiting their sun, the third world showed signs of being a lush, thriving world, with flourishing life.

And now, we are a few million years away from encountering it again. There are monthly reports in the news updating our relative positions to each other, with current knowledge of the system, and we are currently almost forty light years away from each other. It will be a while yet before we can observe our cousin system's transits again. We are also dealing with increased cometary activity and asteroid defense operations due to a nearby binary star violating our Oort region.

But a century ago, something strange began to happen. Amateur radio astronomers picked up a slight difference in the radio signals we see in our sky. And not the usual differences either. They recorded the position they found it in in the sky, and submitted it for peer review. After intense scrutiny, it was confirmed to be coming from the direction of our cousin system. The news spread like wildfire. Could it be? After eons of being truly alone in the universe, with countless peer reviews each confirming our loneliness, did our baby cousin have people? Like us? When we look in the mirror, we see a Belle Hadean. Blue skin, pointy ears. But also, a person. A sophont. If we weren't alone, we knew they wouldn't look exactly like us. But, we're mammalian. We have warm blood, push babies out alive, have two arms and two legs, with five digits each, and opposable thumbs on our hands.

Still, the distance between us makes it impossible to decipher these signals. Any detail is lost just a light year from their system due to cosmic radiation. Same as our radio activity; our signals lose detail just a light year out. While our Seers can tell us more about the other people, they are reluctant to divulge, only saying that they are extremely troubled. So for a century, this faint signal grew slightly stronger.

Last month, however, the signal died over the course of several days. The Seers knew. We all knew. We were alone once again. We just didn't know how. The Seers knew of course, but they were mum. We checked our relative trajectories. In several million years, the next encounter would be the closest of all. We could potentially physically visit this system. We've had several active colonies throughout our system for billions of years, including the farthest worlds, so it is not out of the question.

Endless debates raged. Persephone is old. She has half a billion years left in the main sequence. Afterwards, the endless give and take of material between her and Hades will culminate in a type Ia supernova. Do we make a new home on the graves of our cosmic cousins? How badly will the close encounter affect the orbits of the wandering stars in each of our systems? Will our germs kill their planet? Or will their germs kill us? Or do we embrace our doom?

Years pass. We get closer. Shortly before the closest encounter, we can again see transits in front of their star. Their world's atmosphere showed signs of severe degradation. Carbon dioxide was off the charts. But declining. Oxygen was low, but rebounding. Soon after, at long last, our optical telescopes could see her for the first time, using our system as a gravity lens. She was extremely dusty. Blue seas, wispy white and dusty clouds. Patches of green. We saw her companions as well. She had a large, gray moon. The inner-most planet was also gray. Her inner neighbor was white hot. Her outer neighbor was red and dusty. Further beyond, two large giants followed by two small giants.

We sent our toughest probes capable of bridging the distance as we got closer. We investigated. We found a data crystal. The only one on the entire planet. It told a sad story. They struggled mightily against greed. But in the end, greed killed them. Oh greed outlasted them too, of course. But the greedy died too, eventually. We found out they named their world after dirt. Entirely disrespectful to their mother world. And they treated it like dirt too. Their ruins were long gone, eroded by weather and time. But it wasn't all gloom. Many souls made stories and cute stuff to make the most of their situation. Countless love stories described their relationships surviving the odds against hostile peers.

At the end of the data crystal, was the creator's signature. A woman named "Amy." She recorded a voice note, in defiance of her hierarchal superiors, pleading for the discoverers not to make the same bad choices "humanity" had done, and hid it, knowing she would be killed for recording all of her world's history in it.

We also found that during the peak of their world's biosphere, fantastical mega-fauna flourished until eighty million years ago when a large asteroid impact ended their reign, allowing these humans to eventually evolve into existence. We found it’s hidden impact crater a thousand miles from where we found the data crystal.

As expected, the greedy managed to take power deep in their ancient history and never let go for thousands of years, sealing the aliens' doom. We also found their ancestors' name for their world. Gaia. Named after their ancient nature goddess. Gaia's resources had been severely depleted and the environment destroyed, culminating in the aliens' destruction as the greedy tried to mass murder most of the humans and enslave the rest. Extrapolating from the data, they went extinct towards the end of what they called their "twenty-first century." Since then, Gaia has been a hothouse that is only now finally cooling down and recovering.

A decision was made. While we could continue our existence by migrating to their system at great physical cost, the moral cost was higher. A world that had been so disrespected by her people didn't deserve to be further disrespected by us, even if we had valid reasons to continue to survive in this dark, lonely universe.

The encounter came and went. We had a probe bring back the data crystal to Belle Hades so we could forever immortalize the more positive aspects of human society, and to pay respects. We also both lost our outermost wandering stars, but we took it in stride. We know the end of our existence will be extremely painful be it soon, or several billion years later had we sought refuge on Gaia. As the only other garden world in the entire universe receded from view, we noticed the other system had left us a parting gift. A small, icy double world, with a large heart shaped region on the primary. As if to say thanks for not desecrating Gaia, they were now a part of our system. Based on what we know from the data crystal, we should call this new world Pluto, and it's main moon, Charon.

Pluto is kinda interesting, because Belle Hades is like this with our moon too. A very large moon, far enough away to be considered a double planet, with the barycenter far above our world's surface.

We have a couple more encounters ahead of us, of course, but that was the closest. In the last encounter before our extinction, we saw Gaia's transits for the last time. Measurements of her atmosphere once again indicated a flourishing biosphere. Transits took longer too, as Gaia's orbit had widened, presumably due to our closest encounter. Knowing stellar evolution of the sun we now know as Sol, we gave Gaia a fighting chance to thrive one last time before Sol got too hot. It was a bittersweet pill to swallow, knowing had humans been kinder to their world, or hell, just kinder in general, we may have gotten to meet. And Gaia's biosphere may have been able to be maintained until Sol's red giant phases.

Extrapolating into the future, after Gaia and Belle Hades, the universe may most likely never see complex life again. Interestingly, projections also place our system near a potential new star-forming region by the time one of our suns die in a glorious blaze of light. But ultimately, entropy and darkness will win in the end. It always was going to. Curse this reality!

But. For a brief moment in time... There was not just one Pale Blue Dot...

There were two.