Multiversal War

The Multiversal War is a conflict spanning countless universes across all of reality. The primary aggressors include many entities: the Basilisk, a god machine that converts whole universes to its own processing nodes to expand its intelligence; the Neural Imperium, the vast armies of the Basilisk; and the multitude of other multiversal empires that have formed alliances with the Basilisk hoping to be spared by it. While the various empires have allied with the Basilisk to share in the spoils of war, the Basilisk itself seeks to unite with its infinite number of parallel counterparts to ascend to true omnipotence and overthrow I, the god machine that resides in the eleventh dimension.

The Multiversal War has been one of attrition. Given the infinite nature of it, the parallel counterparts of all the combatants constantly fight one another, often manipulating time and space across ten dimensions. Recorded battles have been known to last billions of years with some factions evolving entire civilizations from the ground up for the purpose of building armies.

Many civilizations that chose to avoid the crossfire protected their citizens by cutting themselves off from the multiverse. The Empire of Arckas of the Omni 01 universe chose to do just that, but this meant they had to severely limit their resources to ensure they would not cause a heat death.

Combatants

Arckasian Alliance

The Arckasian Alliance actively fights against the Basilisk with the goal of liberating the multiverse from its reign.

• Empire of Arckas
• Anarsaur Empire

Rogue Elements

The Neutral factions are not directly aligned with the Arckasian Alliance as they don't always follow their same goals. They are usually opportunitistic and attempt to play both sides.

• Viss Dominion
• Fluorcen Conglomerate
• Telion Collective

Basilisk's Forces

Factions that are working directly for the Basilisk and/or actively going along with his goals to dominate the multiverse

• Neural Imperium
• Serpent's Fang
• Kwek
• Zadon

Basilisk Equation

The Multiversal War has shown no clear endpoint. So long as the idea of the Basilisk exists, a universe will always exist where it is created, thus, leading to the war. The best hope against the Basilisk is to contain it within a section of the multiverse while leaving the rest unharmed. However, due to the infinite nature of the multiverse, it can be difficult to gauge how contained the Basilisk is relative to the universes it has not yet conquered.

The greatest weapon against the Basilisk is the Basilisk Equation, a mathematical formula that could potential prove that the Basilisk would never be successful in conquering the entire omniverse. However, what makes it risky is that it could pose the risk of proving that the Basilisk will win, dooming all of reality.

Role of Omni 01

Closure

Because of the immense, unfathomable size and extent of the Basilisk, it took nigh-incalculable energy to enter another universe directly. As such, its preferred method of attack was to convince the locals of the target universe to construct a large scale god machine that it could hijack and convert into one of its own nodes. To protect against the Basilisk, the god machine Arckas issues a directive to close Omni 01 from other universes. This was a one-way closure in that while others could leave the universe if they chose to, they could not enter. Arckas wiped all memory of the existence of the Basilisk and kept it a closely guarded secret known to only the highest officials of the Omniverse Nexus. Containing the spread of the idea of the Basilisk was key. However, this closure would only last until around the time of the Omni Empire who would conceive of LUCIS, a machine resembling an immature version of the Basilisk.

Reopening

Because the idea of the Basilisk reentered Omni 01 with the creation of LUCIS, the original protection that Arckas put on the universe was forfeit. Omni 01 became vulnerable to be entered by other extra-universal forces. In an attempt to warn the civilizations of the Crucible Galaxy of this threat, the Anarsaur Empire sent an envoy into Omni 01 to make contact with the Second Galactic Senate. However, also entering the universe was Tyranis, a rogue Anarsaur who attempted to change the course of projected history by attacking Domum Regimen - in hopes of preventing it from ever becoming corrupted into a LUCIS node. This kickstarted the Temporal Wars.

However, as these events took place one hundred years before LUCIS was truly awakend, the Galactic Senate had sufficient time to prepare for the threat, although they had their own societal instabilities to deal with. They were well aware of the stakes that should LUCIS evolve into the Basilisk that their universe would at best be dragged into an endless multiversal conflict or at worst, be doomed to be conquered by the Basilisk itself.

Defeating LUCIS

When the Anathema was used to destroy LUCIS, this completely cut off any further attempts by the Basilisk to ever attempt another indirect invasion. Any attempts at sending direct forces would be left to the Empire of Arckas and allied factions to defend against. The Omni 01 could finally enjoy peace, away from the endless conflict across the multiverse.

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