The universe dying wasn’t slow, as I originally explained it. However, I am telling the truth when I said I was made to be a shelter for the races of the universe as it collapses onto itself. That isn’t your universe’s fate. Conflict ended your world. Colossal weapons annihilating entire galaxies, detonating every star and engulfing entire planets. Creating a chain reaction that cannot be stopped. Galactic on galactic scale wars were horrific with what people can achieve to win them. There wasn’t a need to go to the other galaxy when you can blow it up from the safety of your own home systems to harvest the raw resources of the dead galaxy later.

  When it comes to petty nations within a galaxy. Armadas of the mightiest warships sailed into the endless sea of space and battled it out in the void for months and even years on end. Nova and grav cannon shells soar through space to turn thick laciantime armour and grumble it like paper.

  Planetary warfare was even worse. The skies turned to fire as armies of a hundred million strong battled it out in hopes of crippling their foe’s production capabilities. War in the future, the future you never witnessed, was on a scale you cannot comprehend. Billions can die over night while a billion more soldiers will be birthed to take their place. Further fueling the cycle of endless conflict and destruction that will inevitably wound the galaxy and the universe.

  That is how the universe died. War killed it. Every resource spent on weapons and the production of killing until it all became unsustainable. It wasn’t the fault of humans, aliens, or machines. It was no one’s fault. To me, I argue that it is just the nature of all things. People will fight to either survive or get something they don’t have for their own purpose. Can you blame a lion for killing and eating a zebra alive? No, it is what it is meant to do, it is its nature. You can even say that it is the nature of the universe that killed itself, and I will agree on that notion. However, you can't put blame on any one person. It will be foolish to do so.

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  But that is not a bad thing. Death is part of the lifecycle of the universe, and so is its rebirth. Soon, it will all come back and birth a new universe. It will be similar to our own and it will replicate everything! Even the atoms will be the exact same. You will be reincarnated, maybe even make the same mistakes or make the same choices. A silly thing to point out, but a true one.

  However, this gives the universe an opportunity. It gives life a chance to start again and change. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. Unlike you, I am privileged enough to be able to survive so many cycles of death and rebirth that I grew accustomed to it all. But there is hope! A chance for everything to become better than what happened before. , there won’t be war. Maybe the people of the new universe will only know peace. I like to believe that is the case.

  . But what if I tell you how there is hope! That everything can get better. Come, follow me. Allow me to… no, I’ll show you how everything will change and get better.