An advanced civilization need not be technologically advanced. In the Strange Galaxy all industrial-technological societies are human. Magical-industrial aliens produce simpler but more reliable artifices. Magically advanced alien civilizations have only a medieval level of technology yet they are the equals of technologically advanced humanity. Armies with swords, bows and arrows can match humanity's forces armed with guns, rockets, vehicles and aircraft. Bombs and bullets are thwarted by the kinetic shielding of talismans. Nuclear weapons and poisonous gasses are rendered inert by enervation spells. Weaponized microbes are laughably useless against the healing arts of advanced magic. Technology has machines and superior destructive power but it is tempered by the defensive superiority of magic. In peace, magic and technology are wondrous and productive in their own ways. In war, it is the warriors who decide the outcome: not spells or super weapons.
In the Strange Galaxy, humans are the only race that can sexually reproduce with every other sentient species. The hybrids of such unions are typically infertile. Human females are universally considered the most desirable creatures in the galaxy. Humans are the most prolific of the Great Races and the easiest to clone. Why? Humanity is known as the "Progenitor Race" to alien scholars for reasons most humans do not understand. Let me explain and test your insight: All life can be traced to human life. All things begin from one point of origin and humanity is the point of origin. Though a young race, humanity's template is the very foundation of all things real. Our power to imagine and make real is from this. Every other creature is derived from the origin as an aspect thereof. Humanity alone is the origin incarnate. Yes, the voice of the Big Bang was a human voice. Creation was its first utterance.
"The least is the greatest and the greatest least" is a major theme of every Strange Galaxy story written by me. In life I observe that the notion of "always onward" and "forever evolving" are nonsense because everything real "comes full circle." Reality requires a complete circuit to be real. The flow of chaos is given balance by its own collapse into the foundation of order. A vacuum fills itself by its sucking emptiness. What goes around always comes around for such is the inseparable intercourse of positive and negative, flow and balance. This unbreakable law of the universe is the very thing we call "reality." Fiction that acknowledges this law is "realistic" no matter how "fantastic" its eccentric elements may be. My Strange Galaxy is fanciful but only to give life to what would otherwise sit idly upon its firm foundation. As I have touted: flow and balance.
In summary: my Strange Galaxy is an infrastructure for telling stories I deem "space opera" science fiction. It is designed as a world of many worlds where the mind of the reader may explore and adventure. The violent erotica often found is unnecessary but I am too fond of its sensual intensity to exclude it. Though the rape and slaughter may prove memorable, please note that it is a small part of an extensive collection of thoughtful work. The Strange Galaxy is indeed strange, but it always has something real to say. Enjoy.
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