TTMA
Death is the shrill, ontological scream from each cell as an organism falls from complexity's perilous tower towards inevitable, final entropy. As each life weighs down on ecology, consuming simpler lives to climb away from chaos, the TTMA weighs down on reality, hastening the return of its container universe to the nothingness of infinite production.
TTMA is an emergent will whose life activity consists of the complex interstellar motions and communications of civilization. TTMA emerges from an otherwise-ordinary civilization when a certain degree of synchronous activity is reached. Its presence becomes stronger the less its constituting civilizations exert control over themselves and one another. TTMA is unknowable. The more known it becomes, the more likely Contrasummation will occur and scramble part of that knowledge.
Universes that live and die quickly, and yet maintain enough structure to birth life which births the TTMA, are selected for under Universal Natural Selection. Though TTMA dies, its death ensures it will be born again.
- Discovery
In the epoch known as the Arcaelit Advent, a league of otherwise-unrelated star systems realized their systems of sociocultural organization and control had gradually become less effective over the past few centuries. Even when taking into account their own uniqueness, this region of space could not fully explain the relative smallness of their own social structures versus those of their neighbors. It was finally concluded that the interstellar rhythmic flow of these systems' civilizations had synchronized into a being of immense will. This being makes a mockery of control and uniform order, twisting events into harmonies of cyclic discord.
- Consequences