In the beginning, there was Earth, sole and omnipotent. Or so its inhabitants thought. But in truth, there was an entire universe waiting to be destroyed by their technology.

Humans eventually evolved from single-celled organisms. Around their 5000th year of popular recorded and preserved history (which was proclaimed by most to be in the 30th century Anno Domini), their slow progression fizzled away into a spiral of self-destruction. First, their technology saved them, as humans were quite susceptible to rare diseases as though they were common as stars. With relatively small immune systems, they required the advancements in medicines to allow some to live decent life-spans.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Before their 5000th year, the humans began as every current race began: wars. They did a grand job of eliminating themselves -- so much that the foreign universal powers dared not intervene to dispense of the excess humans in fear of under population of the tiny asteroid. Some nations even wanted to go down to the stinking rock and stop the battles. In any case, considering the humans' ridiculous diseases and filthy living habits on top of their wars, many of the sovereigns believed that Earth was a passing blip on the radar of the history of (somewhat) sentient beings.

Religions were developed, even in the most early days and in their most primitive tribes. They created and destroyed gods; they created and destroyed humans; they created and destroyed animals. A common belief among the humans was that they were capable of all things, even being gods; but there was always one god or many that could surpass their efforts or even control their lives.

These religions caused such additional strife among the hundreds of nations (on a planet big enough for maybe two... three nations at most) that again the universal powers considered intervening. Yet a generally unsaid "limbs-off" policy was upheld concerning the blood-thirsty tribes, and Earth eventually progressed to save itself, and Earth eventually progressed to demolish itself.

The biggest problem among the humans was most apparently their mindset. Technology created by their most brilliant minds was more often used as a war tool in the stead of a medical tool, though Earth was quite abundant in both technologies by its demise. But the largest of world-wide wars had diminished by their 4300th year, and only terrorist regimes were most threatening. Thusly, the humans turned to focus on becoming the omniscient beings they made themselves out to be.

First, their technology was simple. Crude computers for recording collaborations and creating procedures were developed. However, after they had a chance to “take a breather” from their constant battles, their production rate of technologies soared. Humans started creating what they deemed as Artificial Intelligence (AI) without knowing that any intelligence, created or inbred, could never be anything but veritable knowledge.

They continued their labors to produce cube-like computers from their many metallic and gaseous elements. Those computers were then infused with life that lasted far longer than any human’s body. The living computers began to teach themselves, upgrade themselves, even add new attachments to themselves. It was the computers who began the true progress of Earth, and it was the computers who left the humans in the dust.

It is near the 4700th year that the computers realized and recorded history of their own accord. Human writings were perishable, and the computers had evolved from their single-program boxes to nearly perfect beings. They knew, they analyzed data that allowed them to sense as well as the humans, and any errors they could easily resolve by entering new numbers into the database. The computers separated themselves from the Earthian human tribes, sending the human nations plunging into despair. All technology thereafter was retrieved by the computers, and the humans were thrown into simple lives once again. They, however, were all too happy to be isolated from the computers.

Once the news of the computers’ domination of asteroid Earth was announced publicly, the Rhombuids immediately denounced Earth. The Rhomboids can be explained thusly: their paradoxical planet was a reflection of their paradoxical thoughts. They understood nothing but knew the answers to everything. Rhombuidian opinion was sought only on matters which would not directly disturb any of the sovereigns, as application was not something that the Rhombuids had ever learned.

But the Rhombuids denounced Earth as potentially troublesome, as the human spirit was infused in the computers; and the human spirit was to war against contrasting ideas. They were thanked for their enlightening view.

Then the sovereigns turned to the members of elliptical planetary orbits, as their development was akin to the humans’. The Orthopodes agreed to study the Earthian orthoepy, and they successfully contacted the humans by their 4800th year. They brought with them an offer predetermined by the sovereigns: the alien powers would remove the healthiest and smartest humans from the doomed planet and place them in an inhabitable environment orbiting a polygonal and universal diplomacy station approximately forty-seven billion light-years from Earth.

The healthiest, smartest humans -- true to their nature -- agreed to this quickly, while the tribal leaders immediately declined aid. They determined to dismantle their own creations or learn to live with them. The Rhombuids later reflected on the human populace’s last chance, describing the majority of the nations’ reactions to be “insufficient to secure the continuance of the race.”

So the best of the Earthian race was relocated to a place in which the powers could keep a close eye on the newcomers, and the humans flourished with the resolve to never create an artificial intelligence without the sovereigns’ approval and guidance. Indeed, they did continue with their refined and restrained technology, but the intelligences on Earth yet posed a threat of expansionism and destruction.