New Gamma, the Dogverse
After the Great Unification, Gamma was a very popular destination for inter-universal tourists. The wild culture divergences, the small and secluded nature of the villages and town ‘states’, the fantastical Arts...it was all so interesting, to many people from all over Sigma. Then Dog came, and ruined it all.
Dog is the name taken by the ‘daughter’ and acolyte of the High Dark Lord Stephen L. Clawblade, and, while there’s plenty to say about her, she (and her ‘father’) deserve a post of their very own. For now, all that needs to be said is that Dog is someone with grand aspirations. One of which is, simply put, become a god.
Now, in Dog’s own unstable mind, one of the more basic (relatively speaking, of course) things that a god can do is create a universe! That’s one of the hallmarks of being a deity, right? Lording over your own domain. One that you created. It’s all about creation.
However, Dog didn’t have the ability to just create a universe. And, further compounding her irritation was the reality of the Great Unification, which effectively halted the creation of any more universes that didn’t branch off of the ten chosen universes.
Though this didn’t deter Dog. No, where Dog lacked in actual godliness, she made up for in resourcefulness, as well as an intimate knowledge of metacontext, or how existence worked, thanks to her ‘father’. Instead of creating a universe from scratch, Dog could instead simply trigger a sort of ‘restart’ in a universe, which would allow her to help ‘guide’ the recreation. And all of this could be done, with the help of just a little bit of Cloud energy.
So, in much the same fashion that the Great Unification occurred under, Dog managed to pull off something that resembled her plan. Really, who was going to nitpick over it?
Through just a random choice, Gamma was the universe picked for the restart, a process that caused the entire universe to convert back into Cloud energy, leaving an empty void behind. The process took about an hour and a half, time enough to allow some people from Gamma to escape, but most of the Gamma humans ended up perishing in the erasure. These people were not even necessarily killed, their entire beings were erased from existence. Billions of humans, and an inconceivable amount of beings that lived elsewhere in the universe, denied an entrance to the Aether. Gone.
However, Dog didn’t care. She was more focused on ‘her’ new universe, and she was giddy with excitement as she planted her own ‘seeds’ into the brand new, empty, blank slate that was soon to restart. But, as the universe bloomed anew, a dawning realization soon overtook Dog.
She was unable to go to her brand new universe. The one she had worked so hard to achieve, the one she had erased an entire universe to create anew. Despite her power, she lacked the ability to teleport between universes, and, due to the erasure of the access points between Gamma and other universes, there was functionally no way to access the new Gamma. After all that work, neither Dog nor anyone else could see what the fruits of her labor looked like.
In this new universe, due to both manual influence from a non-deity and the chaotic process of essentially ‘restarting’ a universe, creation ran amok. Time flowed erratically initially, speeding up and slowing down at different points, and the fabric of space would fragment and stitch itself back together, in a repeating, chaotic process that halted and restarted, over and over again.
Eventually, though, this mess of a universe hit a period of fragile stability. And that’s where the Dogverse is now. Although there are still problems with how space and time works, it’s more sparse and localized within the universe now. For now, there isn’t the risk of everything just falling apart, at least, immediately.
In the Dogverse, there is an Earth-like planet, though it differs in many ways than the Earths/Earth-likes of the other universes. Dogverse ‘Earth’, which has no one agreed-upon name, is at least twice as large as the other Earths, and possesses two moons, each teeming with life. Something that distinguishes Dogverse Earth from the other nine universes is the excess of sentient, human-level socio-intelligent life forms that cover it and its two moons. So much so, that there isn’t really a ‘dominant’ being on the three, and there aren’t that many of the unum, the humanish of the Dogverse, across the planet.
To the rest of Sigma, new Gamma is completely unknown. With the access points destroyed, there’s no standard, practical, or safe way to access it, and, for the longest time, everyone had just assumed that it had just disappeared in the erasure. It wasn’t until contact was made by someone from new Gamma that people realized that there was still something going on in Gamma. However, while there is interest in making a connection between Gamma and the rest of Sigma, all attempts have been miserable failures, or, in one instance, an attempted invasion by a race living in Gamma. As of now, there still isn’t really any meaningful communication being made between new Gamma and the rest of Sigma.