Kastelar civilisation

The Kastellian civilisation refers to the civilisation who took over the Kastel-Knia star system and a few other systems in its neighborhood. They are originated from the Kastel planet

History

The Kastellian civilisation is divided in two main eras. The antique era and the modern era the main event separating both eras is the merge.

The antique era

The Kastellians emerged 2 billion years ago, they quickly learned how to make use of Kastel dense vegetation, and they worked in synergy with the vegetation, using it to power their devices and technologies. During this primitive period, the population grew very quickly and at some point they reached the maximum capacity on the planet. This has been later called the First Antique Crysis which led to the deployment of hundreds of nuclear fusion reactors, those were comparable to stellarators.

Without this capacity limit the population grew even more, until they were up to 44 billions individuals. At that point they touched a physical capacity limit when they covered every square meters of land they could cover, leading them to look at space.

The interplanetary war

The Ancient Kastellians had practically exhausted all their resources and exploited every square meter of their planet when they decided to colonize Krates Acestas. Their space travel technology and advanced weaponry techniques allowed them to easily colonise Krates Acestas knowing that the Krates had only just discovered the existence of electromagnetism... However, Krates Acestas being mostly swampy, the Ancient Kastellians had great difficulty progressing against the Krates who knew their environment perfectly. The Ancient Kastellians then decided to turn to Acestas Arir.

The small moon of Krates Acestas did not disappoint them because it had many deposits of nakillium, an extremely rare resource in the universe. The Ancient Kastellians quickly discovered the amazing properties of said crystal: when ionizing rays the crystalline structure of nakillium mutates and causes significant gravitational waves that can create all types of anomalies.

In the meantime, they still tried to colonise Krates Acestas, which led to a lot of life losses.

They used it to work on a bomb capable of dislocating a planet by overloading the nakillium to cause the collapse of its crystalline structure releasing a shock wave distributed over the entire surface of the celestial body where the event takes place, which inevitably causes its destruction...

This unfortunately happened to Acestas Was, the second moon of Krates Acestas, which has been used to install a nakillium research lab. Upon this destruction, the Krates decided to allow the kastellians to use their land with the following conditions: make use of it with maximum erfficiency, merge both civilisation into a common one and prohibit usage of nakillium, forever. The kastellians accepted themselves the conditions because they were also afraid of the threat the nakillium made.

A lot of Ancient Kastellian died during this period, the losses has been estimated at around 19 billions on Krates Acestas and 3 billions on Acestas Was. But also the Krates populations has been reduced due to the war. They reached 8 billions which has been reduced to 6 and a half billions.

The merge

The merge refers to both the end of war and their digitisation into the computer space.

Major developments were made in the fields of superconducting computing, genetic algorithms, neural networks and self-learning software. Allowing the entire population to be simulated within a network of computer. Most building were also converted into datacenters, called simcenters and power plants with adaptations made to be compatible with the self-controlled robotic systems that ran the civilisation for centuries after. During the merge their architecture dropped from sumptuous and nature-inspired to functional and lifeless rectillinear buildings.

The merge concluded about 30 years after the end of the previous war.

The modern era

That era started as soon as the civilisation started to live within the computer space, allowing to unlock conciousness collaboration from all around their world. This made them progressing way much quickier than anyone could expect, after about a few years they replaced almost all their superconducting computers with quantum computers dealing with 12-dimensions qubits within their simcenters.

This led them to discoveries allowing them to do faster-than-light space travel and settle further out of their system, their ship were as basely designed as their buildings, looking closer to simple monoliths than spaceships.

They settled in about 5 other systems making them a interstellar species and their population growth rasied to more than one hundred billions of individuals.

The civil war

Their technological and scientific progression on biology pushed them towards the debate of returning into a biological form. This divided the population so much that activists started to destroy simcenters, both on hardware and software, leading to insane amount of losses about millions every months. About a eighth of the population decided to come back to a biological form, transfering their conciousness into physical bodies.

Seeing this, a small group of about 700 millions intellectual individuals decided to insulate with the rest of the network. They started working on a way to escape the war. They made a ship with an embarked last generation quantum computer and they dediced to use the nakillium to make a gravity catalyst and travel with much more efficiency.

They needed a pilot to drive the ship and as their conciousness structure were way to hard to simulate efficiently they engineered an artificial intelligence called Reks Li'. This AI would have to be in charge of discovering new civilisations and settle permanent links with them. They gave an artificial body to Reks Lih with the image of Ancient Kastellians, which could be much friendful than cubic monoliths.

The war finally concluded with the destruction of almost all simcenters. The biological forms also extincted because of sterility and illnesses. Leaving only remnants of the previous old civilisation now defunct.

Technology

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