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>Earth has long since perished due to the machinations of an ancient foe, and the last scattered remnants of mankind flee in titanic bioships through the stars.

Been done, apart from the bioships

What else you got?

Not him but
>Earth was consumed by an alien world harvesting ship
>the remaining humans live in the machinery of the enormous alien ship
>their history is mostly legends and social organization is tribes
>humans survive, using strange tech and dealing with the myriad other species that have hitched a ride after having theirt worlds consumed

>The entire known universe is but the innards of some unfathomable, timeless, -thing-. It hates us.

>Humanity has been fleeing for just so long, but already the stars don't look like they used to.

>The alien ship drifts from world to world harvesting what it can from the various planets, before moving onto the next
>This is not done out of malevolence, but out of mercy on the harvester's part.

>As they drift through the vastness of the cosmos within the alien vessel, fleeing their ancient enemy, many humans have visions, visions of all the stars going out and darkness descending to consume them all.
>These visions are different for everyone, yet they all share a common theme of a hungering darkness devouring light.

So, the first prey?

> Humans are plagued by a god that is trying to communicate with them through some kind of psychic dream telepathy.
> Finally they locate the source deep beneath the ocean.
> Cthulhu.jpg
> Investigators with the help of the US government launch a nuclear attack on its location.
> Humanity stops dreaming entirely.

>Planets that develop for too long succumb to madness and darkness, becoming violent beyond comprehension against any normal life, eventually devolving into twisted abominations

leave

and the second one

>The Ancient Enemy that chases Humanity across the stars has gone by many names. The withering Hour, The Blighted Eternity, The Eater of Starlight, The Poisoner Of Light, The Blasted Waste, and countless others
>But the name that most of mankind knows it by, is the Geist.

>Humanity's galactic empires have fallen and been rebuilt numerous times.
>Current time period is an interregnum with warlords trying to control the galaxy.
>Only remnants of order is a faction holding the galactic core, named the Museum Space (or something like it), who seek to catalog and maintain all of humanity's history troughout the ages.

>The Museum Space gather whatever they can from scattered remnants, and fragmentary passages of humanity's past before the Devouring Eternity, the Geist descended upon them.
>Their ships are less vessels, and are more vast libraries housing an enormous multitude of texts and tombs pertaining to the ancient past.

> The greatest of said ships, named the Alexandria, an ancient ship, dating back from the first empire, when the Museum Space was created, is about the size of a planet.
>It acts as their capital, and the seat of the Arch Curator, the ruler of the Museum Space

>Though humanity is currently being plagued by the Hungering Space, they are not the first.
>Records have been found of other species who the Geist had descended upon, other races who were unlucky enough to draw the ire of the darkness between the stars
>Most of them did not survive.
>The few that did manage to last against the machinations of the Empty Cup were driven hopelessly insane by the horrors they had to endure, becoming murderously suicidal and delusional, minds utterly destroyed by the dark terrors that plagued them.

Bump for continued interest

>Its some horrible quirk of evolutionary processes, as far as we can see
>No matter how advanced, terrestrial life will remain red in tooth and claw, intermittent periods of industry only existing to escalate the bloodshed and debauch
>Life needs the strictures of the void to elevate itself, and only in forsaking the wanton gardens of our homeworlds can we aspire to great works
>So much for sentiment, good bye dear earth

>There is an ellipse of nearly a thousand shrouded stars visible far above the galactic plane
>There is a dark mass at the midpoint, its properties obscure
>It approaches
>we've been watching for forever

>It hates us because we are an annoyance
>A sharp pain in its stomach
>And the fucker's about to drop an antiacid.

Bump

>it's not the humans you play as

>"It's a crude term, really, but an accurate one. As far as we can tell, every million years or so, a field is generated somewhere in space that makes the atomic bonds that give things their physicality simply disappear. Any object that comes in contact with one of these fields simply disintegrates, occasionally violently so. They seem to be expanding at about lightspeed. Current estimations are that these 'breaker fields' will completely surround our fleet in about 357 million years. From there, we'll have about 72 million more years in a slowly shrinking universe before we are devoured."

>the ships are designed to self-repair, 'consuming' small pieces of debris and processing it to rebuild themselves.
>the ships have started to build themselves into configurations no one has ever seen before.

The Big Bang was caused by God Himself moving into a new reality. He was running from something.

>many of the tribes use bastardized symbols of the military organizations, corporations, religious groups, and governments their ancestors might've once held dear
>the meaning is mostly lost on them
>they eventually learned to stop leaving their age-old relics in public view after the hundredth time visitors from Museum Space took off with the things

So we meet again, so-called God

>a group of hotshot space pilots set out to kill God

>it is thought that the Devouring Eternity, The Nightmare hour, The Geist is it's own personal attempt to expunge all mortal life from itself, to truly create a void of non-being.