How Gods Are Born

    It began with the creation of God's Fist. This crude joke name quickly caught on for the most powerful source of clean energy possible. The famous Farlies-Gruber Rock, a nugget of pure gold sat in the centre of an enormous factory complex, but no chemicals are produced and no pollutants are released. Every day a single atom of the gold nugget is painstakingly extracted and, using mind-blowingly simple and powerfully destructive methods, that are known only to a few select, converted wholly to energy. This energy powers the world's machinery cleanly and warms, lights and feeds the world's populace.
    The secret was kept as a source of energy more powerful that atomic power would make a devastating weapon. A lesson learned well when the eastern and western civilisations destroyed each other. The southern civilisation, a conglomerate of the Antarticus, African, Oceanic and Samerican unions took over technologically.
    Once an infinite power source was found, interplanetary travel on an exploratory, industrial, commercial, residential, and finally leisure-based scale became possible. They mined the asteroid belt, placed thriving colonies on most planetary bodies or in orbits.

    The reverse process - to turn pure energy back to matter is not so simple, and hundreds were killed on asteroid-based labs in the attempt to discover the details of this process.
    Not only do you have to destroy an equal amount of matter that you wish to create. Also, the process is so vastly complex that no single man could tell you everything about the process, though the workings of God's Fingers machines are kept as no secret. Complex control of myriads of fields and forces, to create the complex structure of the minute exotic particles, that go to create everyday atoms is required.
    Pollution did not stop instantly, many species had been destroyed before the famous and tragic moment when the last rainforest tree was felled - though people could not provide room with the expansion of agriculture for the growing numbers of people.

    The Genetic Sciences thrived, with the rich illegally and eventually legally perfecting their bodies into horrifyingly perfection, or whimsical colours and shapes. The poorer naturals, held on strongly to their earth-shaped bodies against the tide of human engineering. People began to live regularly over a hundred years of age.

    Once matter creation was discovered, they looked into space and saw what could be done with this god-like power. Mining was no-longer necessary, with the creation of huge asteroid-eating machinery, converting them to anything from ships, chairs and spacecraft to healthy hamburgers, bread and beer. Terraforming finally became possible, whatever the gases of a planet's atmosphere, they could be purified into a breathable cocktail. And soil or rock could be made fertile, and people themselves were altered so that they could survive in different gravity levels.
    This new technology spurred people to clone the lost creatures of Earth and provide habitats for them on the vast uninhabited new worlds. A clashes between the densely populated Earth and the sparsely but technologically more advanced populated other planets, eventually involved the miners of the belt who enforced peace and complete control by monopoly on the main source of energy-material.

    Medicine gradually became perfected, with the advance of nanotechnology and the production of nanites. These tiny self-replicating robots held tiny matter converters, when injected into a person's blood they destroyed harmful pathogens and chemicals, whilst evading the immune system. They turned fat to muscle, fixed registered genetic diseases and slowed the aging process. An important effect of the nanites was a perfect form of contraception. Sperm was destroyed as if it were a pathogen, unless the mother consciously allowed herself to become pregnent.

    Eventually the solar system became devoid of minor bodies, all asteroid and comets had either been collected together to form habitable new planets, or turned to energy and new matter to fuel the growing population. Interstellar travel became necessary, and robots were sent over the light-years at speeds lethal to life, to bring back asteroids and other debris to Sol.

    Nobody grasped the rapidity of the nanites capability of adaptation. People could eat what they wanted and live healthily, they could never become ill or die except by extremely violent accidents. The nanites also cured mental illnesses and curbed excessive violence. The prisons became empty and were knocked down. The first people reached two hundred years of age.

    The control of gravity, and soon afterwards antigravity were discovered, again they were too powerful a tools to be made public and so was kept secret, under the name God's Wings. With this invention, wormholes, long theorised became a reality, and spacecraft became obsolete as portals between the planets were built.

    The nanites adaped to a level where they could even use AGNG (Anti-Gravity, Normal-Gravity) fields to allow people to fly. Otherfields kept an air envelope around their body and the air in the lungs was kept breathable by the nanites. People began to forget their technology. Allowing all the planets to revert to jungles where people feared nothing and ate whatever they wanted. People lived in outerspace, skipped across the sun's surface. The first people reached their millennium birthday.
Many people died trying ridiculous stunts, with eternity to play with people tried everything, society split into those with the right type mind to accept life forever, and those too young to have tired of breeding and the world around them. It was found that it became necessary to alter the Sun, to extend it's lifespan a thousand fold.

    Time went by and it was discovered that the cetaceans of earth were developing intelligence, rapidly - in the eyes of timeless people. They gained sentience and built cities in the deeps, farmed fish and gradually built a civilisation.
This was when humankind knew that he should move on, the first dolphin-descended people explored the land, alien to them, discovering the archaeological remains of an extinct advanced race. Many abandoned their old dark gods of the depths and embraced the love of their awed predecessors. Humans did not interfere, some were amused at the worship of the dolphins, but were incapable of maliciously taking advantage. The dolphins colonised land-locked seas, making many of the same mistakes and advances as the two-legged animals before them.

    Most humans explored the galaxy - meeting occasionally to repopulate lost numbers, and discovered other life, some intelligent, most not. A few remained around Sol, and prepared oceans on the other planetary bodies of the solar system for the dolphins to find - they needed a helping hand that they themselves never got.