Fiction:Realities Altered/Truly Alien Universe

Foreword
This is MasterMachine's attempt at a Realities Altered write up. This realities altered universe is very different from the main universe. You see, in this universe, "Truly Alien Life" is the norm, and "normal life" is so different from the normal life forms that they are called "Truly Alien Life". This is a place where electromagnetic life is common, minds made up of nothing but thought a daily sight, and beings of immense power considered normal. This is a Truly Alien Universe.

The Break
Long ago, when the universe was young and the great forces (electromagnetism, gravitation, weak nuclear interaction, and strong nuclear interaction) were still one superforce, having yet to become the four forces they are today, something different happened. It was, at the time, a small thing, a nothing. It could have happened in any number of universes, and probably did. This little event was that electromagnetism broke free of the rest before gravity. This caused the entire universe to change. Because Electromagnetism broke free first, it became the dominant form of the universe. Instead of a universe that obeyed gravity first, everything else second, this one would obey electromagnetism first, everything else second. The first forms of life, because of this, were based not on planets and bound to gravity, but on the massive electromagnetic forces that spanned entire galaxies in this primitive universe. Instead of small, short lived creatures bound to planet and the speed of light, this universe would have beings the size of galaxies, made up of the electromagnetic forces that connected everything in this universe. Stars? Ha! This universe would have no stars, no, it had massive strands of light. Beams of energy bound into the electromagnetic strands that made up the very framework of this universe.

The creatures that live here are massive, thousands of light years from end to end, but light is not the top speed limit here. Here, the top speed limit is however fast a change can travel over the magnetic fields. That is, there is no maximum speed limit in this universe. Living in the strands of electromagnetic plasma were the first and most primitive forms of life, galaxy sized bacteria. These creatures were simple, they didn't bend the electromagnetic fields by much, only a slight warping, like looking at them through a warped glass. Later, many years later, they started to warp the plasma trails more. They began to make their own trails, their own forms. The first glimmerings of intelligence were forming, 2 billion years after the universe had formed. It was now large and complex enough to support intelligent life, and life wasn't waiting any longer!

Electromagnetic Peoples
All across this 2 billion year old universe the Electromagnetic bacteria were creating their own forms, not just riding the forms of other things. Now, instead of being tiny warpings in the plasmatic trails, they were forming their own trail. They were organizing themselves in a complex manner, and by 3 billion years many different species had come out. Of these species of electro-life there were a few dozen that were sapient. These creatures, all in the same "galaxy" (collection of electromagnetic-plasmat lines) began to war and fight. To the few creatures that were planet bound and biological, it was as if the skies themselves were dancing around each other. Imagine lightning, but more continuous and flowing. Now make that flowing lighting dancing around itself, different colors pulsing through them as the energy levels varied. Now, make these flowing strands of light be in the form of massive creatures, complex and intricate, like a network of ropes that, when they cross, are knotted and glowing with energy. These mighty beings battled for supremacy, warring and annihilating each other.

As the battles raged on, many were killed. Many others fled, eventually dividing into more of themselves by a conscious act of will. The Electro-Life was spreading, and it could not be stopped. The eternal wars followed, but always on the edge of the conflict was a bubble of peace that expanded as the wars grew within them. Eventually, however, that bubble would need to pop. When it did, the wars came to an end. The bubble popped and the Electro-life scattered across the entire universe, moving so fast they met up with the edge of the universe and were forced to slow down. These beings were the size of galaxies, and even they were dwarfed by the universe they lived in. As they spread out, they became more peaceful, and the ones that forcibly divided up also specialized, becoming "species" that would eventually meet billions of years later. These Electromagnetic Peoples would grow and spread just like any other civilization. They would war, they would fight, they would kill. But they would also find peace and work to preserve that peace. Life is all the same, no matter how different it's make up is. All life wants to survive, and survival means being the strongest. War is a part of life, not just any one type of life, but all life. These creatures were no different, and they would wage war again.

The Great War of the Lights
The Electromagnetic Life Forms had long since spread out over their entire universe, becoming mighty species and empires. They had waged war, they had destroyed each other, but they had also created alliances and peaceful cooperations between factions. They were living, as all things were to live. But all good things have their bad things. In this polar universe, balance was the absolute law. So when peace existed, it would be balanced by war. The peace that existed before the Great War of the Lights had lasted a full 2 billion years (200 generations for these creatures) but it would be shattered. A warmongering people were rising, and they could take control of other peoples, even if those people didn't give away control. And thus, the Great War of the Lights would begin.

These "assimilators" didn't stop, ever, they kept on attacking and attacking. The entire universe put aside their differences to defend against this seemingly unstoppable threat, and entire species were wiped out daily as they spread. The defenders now started to grow aggressive, and the Lights battles it out in the skies of the universe. For the first time there was true death, not just a destruction of form. Now there was an extinguishing of the lights that had once held that form. As the lights started to die, so did the electromagnetic forces that held them at bay. The Great War of the Lights ended in a truce, as both sides realized if this war continued their entire universe would be destabilized and die.