This planet is most common with the term "galactic empire" more than any other form of interplanetary species, The idea of a suppressive empire in space conquering planets, It's difficult to take that form seriously sometimes, When people here think of an empire in space they think of all the jazz of space ships and one species dominating the others, They think of a single emperor ruling over the entire galaxy with few who suppress his rule, It really is interesting how universal that concept is,

Well this story isn't about a "galactic empire" by the culture of earth's standards although it is similar, This "empire" as you would call it -state as we often refered to it as- never ruled over many many species as you might expect, They ruled over one, That would be the species of which our story presides over, The other thing is that they didn't conquer, they never have, They just simply have always been the head government of state and that's how these unsuspecting creatures always perceived it as, When they were able to colonize other planets they did; they never thought twice about it, But most particular is the separation,

In these galactic empire there is always a single man ruling over the less fortunate with an iron fist, Often interacting directly with those below him sometimes for the sake of torture, Guards are stations in every city to keep the lowly muggles in line, This is a concept rather strange to the creatures of this state as they never even see another creature of another class or at least not that they know of, For all the middle class knows the state royalty could be giant blood sucking cricket monsters, Not that they would know what a cricket monster is, as again they are of a different planet,

What are you doing?

I'm recording our history as we agreed to do,

You are putting in narrative. We never agreed to make this a narrative.

Well we want people to read it don't we?

It's history. People will read history no matter what. There is no reason to make such a fool out of yourself.

I don't know how much you've been studying human culture, but people don't exactly read history books for fun over here,

This isn't for entertainment. This is for the purpose of preserving the history of our species. No one is supposed to "enjoy" this. I personally don't care if you choose to embarrass yourself, but I must remind you that you are representing our entire species. Please, try to be a little more civil about things.

Fine,

The state of our empire was split between three different classes, In the easiest terms to understand it was the lower middle and royal class, As described before they were completely separate from each other and the roles of the individuals in each class was completely different,

Stop that.

Stop what?

That dumb comma thing. You aren't using the proper grammar.

I have actually spent a large amount of time working on what is the accepted grammar,

You've spent nearly all of your time here on Tumblr. You have had the greatest number of resources this planet- or any planet by that matter -has ever had and you chose to spend all of your time on a social media website taken advantage of mostly by toxers.

First of all, On this planet they are called stoners,

Secondly, Tumblr is possibly the greatest resource to study culture,You have been nose deep into history and grammar sites, but you haven't studied the actual culture one bit, I happen to know more about the accepted grammar here more than you ever could and this is from experience, There are people on the web referred to as "grammar nazis" They are the most learned people in the world on the subject of the English language and they have given me a good number of lessons,

Then why do you still not use periods? I haven't seen you use a single one.

Philosophy,

What?

The people of Tumblr have taught me philosophy and I never use periods because of one I happen to stand with, Life is one large statement, A single sentence if you will, It's a rather long sentence but a single sentence none the less and the period marks the end, That's why I never use it, I don't stop I simply pause, A period is so,,,, final,

Well it's wrong anyway.

Will you please just let me get on with it?

Fine.

Anyway, where was I?

Oh that's right, The class system within this state is extremely complex and the roles of women and men change depending on the class, In the lower class the groundlings if you will, men are considered the most lowly creatures of the two and thus as they grow are given a choice, If they study hard and become a scholarly man they are chosen to become the mortal speaker to and for a god, They offer their body and mind to the dedication of serving their god depending on the one they are given, However these are the lucky ones, There are only 16 different gods worshiped by the lower class, Each god is presented 5 different people, Four enforcers (strong loyal men to enforce the words of the god) and one interpreter, This means only 80 men on the entire planet were spared from,,,, Well we'll get to that later,

Why are we waiting? I understand there may be some emotional strife for you, or you may see our customs as barbaric, but that is no reason to restrain from information. Those that were not a member of the eighty men that worked for the gods -a number I believe was close to approximately seventeen point five billion at the beginning of the revolution- were put on mating duty. It really is as simple as that. At the age of five -the human equivalent of twelve- those of us of the lower class are given a test of strength, loyalty, and knowledge of the gods. Those like myself were deemed interpreters, others given the title of enforcer, the rest were put in the reproduction temples and were used as mating units. I understand that those of you in the middle class saw our system as barbaric, but that's how it is.

I held back for reading purposes, Sex isn't exactly the same thing here on earth as it is back home,

I have studied the medical works on human intercourse. It works extremely similarly to ours. The male inserts

MAYBE, we shouldn't go into that here, You know, For decency sake,

Of course. They likely already know.

Yeah, That's why, Anyway what I'm getting at is that sex isn't viewed here the same way,

How so?

Well the men here are actually pleasured by it, It's something that is very positive on both sides, At least most the time, And they won't fully understand what it's like for us men to be put into a repo temp, They don't realize that that means a lifetime of agony.

Well that changes a good deal. Why did you not simply explain that in the first place? For our species, the sexual nerve endings

Oh my God, can you not?

What? You said they won't fully understand unless it is explained to them.

I would really rather not start off this whole damn thing explaining what it's like for our species to have sex, Trust me on this one it's not a smart move,

Anyway, Enough about the Lower Class, Our story begins with quite a different like, Two young members of the middle class, Separated countless times by the state, their own families, and the unfortunate hands of cruel fate, but none the less still destined to fall in love,

Are those details really necessary?

I will have you know that they are, You may find the idea of middle class love repulsive, but it is an incredibly important mark on our class' culture.

The middle class mating ritual is tedious and pointless. You send your entire life dedicating at least half of your lively hood to finding a mate, as it has to be the perfect one. You are usually almost half way through your life by the time you have one and when you do you only have three or four and you're done. This is what happens when a society refuses to instill order on people, they go about things in an entirely inefficient manner.

You would be used to efficiency wouldn't you? It becomes really important when you're only guaranteed 50 years of life at best,

That is exactly why efficiency is so important among my class.

Then why is it still important to you now? The only reason you cared so much about being efficient was because you only lived for such a short amount of time, but now you can live so much longer, Think about all the time you're wasting only caring about the details,

you are being completely unfair! the royal class was extremely efficient in our work and we live for centuries!

How the hell did you get into the system?

the security that you and the groundling have set up is one of the crappiest i have ever seen! and ive broken into my fathers files! those are horrendous!

I will just have to find a way to block you again,

good luck! you will never be able to shut me out! and besides its no fair that youre documenting our planets history completely leaving out someone representing the royal class! you know absolutely nothing about it!

We have within our database, enough records of conversations and files from the royal class to piece together the history and what culture is necessary for the people of this planet to understand. Considering the fact that the royal class only accounts less than five percent of the planet's population, it isn't that important that they fully understand your culture. The accounts

stop! as a groundling you don't even have the right to talk to me! stop doing that!

As you are legally a prisoner under our guardianship, we have complete rights to interrogate and refer to you as we deem necessary for our capability to be a witness in a legal court.

no! wrong laws! those are your dumb laws that you made up i was never brought up with those! i am still the supreme emperor of state and demand to be treated as such!

Hey can you kick him off of the stream?

I can indeed.

That should hold him at least for a little while. I suggest that we find a way to subdue him further. If he interferes with our historical work, it could be damaged to the point of

Dude that's what editing is for, If we get an earth computer it doesn't record absolutely everything so we can cut out the stuff we don't like, Trust me on this, Anyway where was I?

I believe you were introducing the first two people involved in the turning point.

Right, Two young lovers, Separated by cruel cruel fate, The universe had seemed to be turned against their very existence not to mention their happiness, and if not for the resilience of this young couple, The fate of their planet may have never been the same,

Benyll, the boy, Was a young, strong, charismatic man even in his early years,

That I believe is referred to as historical bias. Do not injure our planet's history in a feeble attempt to inflate your self image.

Oi, I'm telling the story, And as a young man I was extremely charismatic, Or rather this young man Benyll was extremely charismatic, His love was smaller and more frail than most and was required extra care, This was the first thing that fate had done to separate these two lovers,

After the first hour after birth, Our species allows contact between other infants, While usually they never see eachother again after the three days spent in nursing, it is good social practice and is shown to help the infants in future courtship, The lady this young man was courting was small and frail, She was given the name of Ablinai a prophet among our people that was born with bones of leaf and skin of dirgith webs, As Benyll had just begun his subtle courtship of the girl, she was taken into a separate room so she could be cared for,

As Benyll had grown he reached the age of liebpilgern, (That's not our word for it it's actually German because there isn't really an english equivalent of the word and German is the easiest language to smash words together and call it a thing, You see liebpilgern is a very old term directly translating to Pilgrimage of Love, Benyll's ancestors at this time had gone on great journeys to find the one they love, Of course this was when people lived a good deal further away from each other and had little means of transportation, Today I suppose it's still a journey, but it's a journey of the soul not the body, It is the age where we have the compelling instinct to find the one that we love) he had begun to look about for a suitable mate, Unlike others at his ripe young age of 26, he did not have the compulsion or attraction that others had in both others and him, This was however because he had always had that feeling, He had had it for one girl only, Her name was Ablinai, By a stroke of luck she had grown up in the same neighborhood as Benyll, and despite the fact that she was more often than not tucked away because of her fragile condition, Benyll had found her because of this strong connection,

Now before I continue, I feel that most the people reading this is imagining love, And while that is what I would call it, love is different there than here on earth, Love here on earth is seen as a pleasurable experience, with bits of loss and pain on the way, but the love itself is good, The connection that we feel and call love doesn't have the emotional weight that it does on earth, but at the same time is a much stronger force, The connection between two people is often times a physical pull that we actually feel, Distance will physically hurt, however being close can hurt even more if not touching, We mate because it can be the only thing to avoid the pain caused by a lack of, But for the men the process can be the most painful thing imaginable, In fewer words love is pain,

Was that whole narrative really necessary?

I will have you know it was, Maybe instead of criticizing me works you can actually add something useful?

Alright. It is historically worth pointing out that this is something that the lower and higher class do not posses. It is historically unclear whether this was originally something that everyone had before the class divisions, which disappeared from the evolutionary process in the other classes due to stricter control over the process of matting, or something that is somewhat newer, having evolved into the middle class after the class division due to the amount of free will granted to members of the class. This debate is one of the most common among historians, and is difficult to contrive an answer due to the amount of physical separation of information between classes. Most information is also unlikely due to the lack of scientific understanding among the lower class. For example studies showed that the majority of the working lower class believed that evolution was a process that wasn't actually possible among members of the middle class due to their life spans. Again, the scientific accuracy of these studies can be flawed, there are few sources that show proof of a true scientific survey (one where every member of the class has the theoretical opportunity to be selected to take part in the survey) and most of those that included class member's thoughts about evolution were not among them.

,,,,you done?

If you believe that my input has been sufficient. I could continue if you would like.

No I think your addition has been enough, But hey could you do me a favour?

What would that be?

Next time I ask for you to "add something useful" could you tell me to just cram it and continue?

I can, however I don't understand why I would

Thank you! Anyway, Love among us and apparently separate from the other classes is pain, This is why love between two people is so incredibly important to allow to blossom because separation from the one you love could mean the pain can become so unbearable that it is simply easier for them to not go on living,

Benyll feeling these pains of separation had always loved Ablinai and she had always loved him, Unfortunately for our poor hero, Ablinai had been moved for place of special care at the young age of 28, only two years after they had entered liebpilgern, This was a foolish mistake as not only is this unfortunate for poor Benyll but the pain will also cause Ablinai's condition to worsten, This is the life that will be the saviors of this planet, Filled with pain that may never instilled, Being forever compulsively lead forward by the pain that drives them apart, and hoping that one day the common goals that they both fight for may bring them together so the pain may end,

That was very passionate.

Don't you dare tell me not to put so much emotion into it,

Perhaps it would be better for the sake of the history that I explained the parts that involve you. Otherwise it is quite possible that the subject may emotionally compromise your capability to properly explain the story, especially if we are to avoid bias here.

It's my life, I'm not going to allow you to tell the story that is my life, You couldn't possibly understand and explain what these experiences are like, hell I can't even really explain it so people truly understand,

Perhaps this wasn't a good idea. It wouldn't do anyone any harm if our planet's history died out. If we die, and the history of the planet with it, no one comes to any kind of harm. Anyone that would be raised of our species will likely be raised with someone that already knows these facts, and if we fail to let the humans "fully understand" as you put it, our species full history and life, then all this becomes is another piece of fiction to add to their archives.

This is important,

To whom Benyll? It is only causing you pain and emotional distress, and it doesn't seem to carry any importance to anyone else.

This isn't important to you?

It is becoming less so. If we do continue, may I propose that we at the very least take a break.

That's not too bad an idea,