It had no fear, no doubts, no resentment for the task it had been set. Manuta was equipped with artificial intelligence, but it was still a machine, confined to the tasks set for it. Manuta was sent further than any other, set the Herculean task of terra-forming one of the most distant and extreme of these promising colonization planets, but like all the other creators, Manuta was nothing more than a machine designed to build other machines. And with each creator they sent out a capsule filled with the DNA of every species of plant and animal most critical to their survival and, for the sake of posterity, to preserve their race which they considered the most important of all, they sent the DNA of the best of the Danu race.Īs one generation of robots completed the step they'd been designed for in terra-forming, the creator recycled and reproduced a new generation of more sophisticated robots to perform new tasks and bring the planet one step closer to colonization. These robots were creators, designed specifically to build more robots, specialized robots that would help to prepare the world they found for the beings who'd created them-the Danu. To prepare these promising new worlds for their people, they sent out ships carrying very specialized robots to prepare the way for the colonists that would come behind them. In their eagerness to conquer the known universe, they studied the worlds in distant solar systems now open to them, chose the most promising, and scattered seeds into the great unknown like the seeds of a dandelion. They had struggled and learned and finally found the way to do what we only dream of now. Long ago, a civilization very like our own found themselves in the position where we stand today. We were able to see the birth and death of stars, galaxies, and solar systems that were far older than our own … and now we are hovering on the very brink of being able to appease our yearning to go out and seek new worlds, to explore these new worlds and find other civilizations, other sentient beings.

With the Hubble telescope we were able to look back in time for the first time to the beginning of the universe, to the Big Bang itself.

The universe has been expanding since the Big Bang that started it all.

Discovery by Kaitlyn O'Connor