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Chapter 3 - Chapter 3 Life

The galactic scale of the three would soon be reined in as something new appeared. Life had started to emerge on trillions of planets. It came in all shapes, sizes, and flavors. They could be ocean dwellers, land walkers, sky treaders, space explorers, anything seemed to be possible. 

With the observations the three made, they saw civilizations start and fall. They saw cosmic threats and ecological threats. They saw peoples that were akin to a firecracker and others that burned long like a candle. Yet with the laws made to govern them, the time they were to exist, and the worlds they inhabited would all end eventually. Though life flourished, it seemed to be missing the same thing as the three. They lacked an imagination. What was more worrying was the lack of emotion life had towards itself. Purely logical beings made for great civilizations, but extremely poor variety. 

It was ordered chaos from all angles. The lesser beings of life always being culled without a chance. Those that could think, those that were strong, those that were quick would dominate all others. Life was to be destroyed by higher life. Biodiversity was near nonexistent on many of the trillions of worlds.

Life would advance quickly then proceed to vanish on planets as logic had dictated them to end civilization. The Ocean Dwellers were so efficient in their hunts that the seas would become barren within only millennia's. The Land Walkers so advanced that beautifully diverse worlds would be razed and transformed to fit their needs. The Sky Treaders so disconnected from each other that they would die out, littering the ground with their bodies. The Space Explorers explored all they could until all that was left was oblivion in the abyss or through gravity. Life seemed to always end up as a soft echo in the universe as every civilisation was set to end themselves from a multitude of reasons.

Despite the importance of life in their universe, the three stopped looking so closely at them. With nothing much to be gained from observing different kinds of life, the galactic scale seemed far more interesting and the timescale allowed these immortal beings to be far more entertained. In fact, without variance, life was pushed to the edge. What once was billions dwindled down to the millions as the three caused events that inadvertently destroyed worlds or galaxies themselves.

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