Abc: The phantom menace

Abc: THe Phantom Menace
(part one of the abc Imperium trilogy)

Gorgo stretched out a pseudopod. His vast bulk stretched for
light-millennia across the firmaverse, but at present he was
concentrating on a small wierhole which he had created with his
dabbling-probe.

He was curious.

He had not created this universe. He had come upon it in his wanderings
through space and dimension.

Gorgo was a creature who was neither here, nor there - neither when,
nor when. Sometimes he enjambed a continuum, sometimes he burrowed
through it. The result was the same - complete destruction for any
sentient mortal life forms within range.

While the life-forms concerned were almost meaningless to Gorg, he had
recently come upon another of his kind. Such meetings were infrequent,
but almost always resulted in a monstrous coupling which created
universes and time-dispersed continua in a boiling spangle of
alter-reality. Occasionally, they produced offspring, bubbling half
grown out of the roiling maelstrom that trammelled across the
multiverse.

But Gorgo had been denied.

The Other had made a stipulation. Gorgo had to find his 'feeling self'
and produce evidence he was a creative, caring being, before the Other
would allow the mating.

Metaphorically 'panting' for a mating, Gorgo had no choice. The Creator
could return before he found his next opportunity, and he needed a row
of offspring lined up for him if he was to get a chance at continuing
being.

Thus the dabbling-probe.

The probe was a means of manipulating at a
microscopic/micro-tempic/micro -dimensional level, with an
intra-interpretational frond that brushed instinctuality into the
combining elements.

Gorgo (to conjure up an understandable metaphor:-) lay on his side
doodling on the sand. (The fact that his 'side' constituted a
multidimensional, interstitial 'presence' is neither here nor when, and
that the 'sand' was a chrono-spatial disparation is similarly
superfluous for our purposes).

'What if I create some discreet, discrete, alter-actualities in the
interstices between mortal worlds?' he mused. Mortal worlds were
created by the Creator. Gorgo could not interfere with them by intent
(enjambement and burrowing were unintentional, but the creator would
come down on him hard if he intentionally destroyed a mortal
miasma).

And so he started the task. Time quasi-passed as Gorgo worked. He
created the 'imperia' - alter-existence environments with their own
instrumentalities. Due to his nature, the imperia he created were
fundamentally disruptive and destructive. But Gorgo knew he would avoid
censure by engaging the frond, which ensured good and creative,
uplifting imperia would be created in mirror form to counterbalance his
bent. Gorgo knew the secret of salvation was counterbalancing one's
bent. (if only we learnt his wisdom).

And so!

The imperiums were made. And the environment for imperiums were
created, so more could grow.

Gorgo, with a stroke of his mighty enabling frond, spattered the
space/time continuum with putative imperiums. How they might grow, how
they could grow, how they would grow, was open. When, where, and wier
they would grow was open!

And so the confundibulum was born.

And abcTales gained a chance to exist!

(THROB to the next episode!)