Prologue04.VI.2022
Billions of years ago, when the Universe we live in wasn't even thought of, there existed a smaller reality in its place. A universe way tinier than the galaxies of today, with ten million suns to its name, it still managed to give birth to a civilization of sentient beings. Beings who brought their home world to global amity and concordance. Beings who harnessed the power of a thousand suns. Beings who lived all across the universe on millions of terraformed planets.
These beings called themselves the Archons, and their home universe — the Cosmos.
Harvesting all information they could in their small world, it was only a matter of time before multiple Archons started breaking their mind out of the fabric of reality. They became aware of their existence within a vast extradimensional ocean between worlds, which they named the Metacosmos - and also of strange ways that Metacosmos can interact with their, and presumably any, universe. This alien, esoteric realm was governed not by matter and energy, but by information, reflecting and refracting activity of a sentient mind - thoughts and ideas, dreams and fantasies.
Ones managed to create pocket dimensions there which they could customize laws of physics within. Others created computers in the Metacosmos that knew no concepts of time and space, instantly breezing through any algorithm unless stuck in an infinite loop. Some tried to break through the deep Metacosmos to the other natural universes, creating what will be called the Realm Door. And a group of Archons used the Metacosmos to construct a time machine, and after using it, went dead silent.
An Archon claiming to be one of them popped up years later. They went from planet to planet, talking about some person that went by the name of «God» and how their actions would presumably shatter the Cosmos into pieces. Though traveler's words were taken with many grains of salt, officials still began discussing the topic and eventually approved a program of creating dimensions for evacuation in case of any apocalyptic scenario - on each city, planetary, and star system level.
The years went by, though, and nothing of notice happened to the whole of Cosmos. The first years' panic calmed down, never even spreading far beyond the traveler's home cluster. And even if the officials had the terminal date on hand, it was never disclosed publically for obvious reasons. Thus, over time the story of God fainted away, becoming just a city legend, and the escape dimensions were never used — but still stood there as a brick in the foundation of any Archon's belief in a bright future.
Meanwhile, other time travelers also went on with their lives, cutting all ends to their past — and to one another. With one exception, though. Two of these Archons, named Komi and Naia, who knew each other from early childhood, decided to pursue their journey through life together. They eventually settled down on a planet named Hena'an in the Lua system and started a farm together - to sustain their living in an old-style way. They've had two kids, one in two years before the other, and named them Tayne and Caithe.