Editing Xeelee Sequence (section)

==Shortlist of [[Grimdark]] Shit in the Sequence==
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This is just a small taste on why the Xeelee Sequence is a pants-shittingly terrifying place to live in.
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[[File:Xeelee_40k.jpg|400px|right|thumb|[[Meme|As they say, there is always a bigger fish.]]]]
*It is already a foregone conclusion that the entire Universe [[Grimdark|will die a slow and painful death.]]
*Before the really bad shit starts happening, humanity was fucked up from the start. The Holy Superet Church of Light raised a girl called "Lieserl" as one of their projects, innocent enough right? Well she was infused with nanomachines which caused her to grow to the age of 90 years in 90 days. She was downloaded into a virtual copy, dropped into the sun, to monitor the Photino Bird threat and forgotten about.
*Empress Shira, a girl from a Qax-occupied future, subjugates Earth and makes them believe in a bullshit religion worshipping the sun, in an attempt to not get occupied in this timeline. Well her Empire was the most oppressive and amoral empire yet. For instance, one of her guards found an unauthorized colony of humans living out of the Solar System, and disassembled it, putting all of the inhabitants into stasis pods. Alpha Centauri, one of their colonies, didn't handle the situation any better, unleashing a data-virus on the Earth and hitting it with asteroids, causing tsunamis until Shira gave up. She still didn't prevent Earth from being occupied by the Squeem or Qax. Also, the bad shit is only getting started. 
*What about the precious planet Earth? Well in Xeelee Sequence Earth is a pretty depressing place before the Qax and after it, it’s decaying due to climate change, and in Transcendent, there was the “Reef” outside of the Spanish city of Seville. The Reef was basically a ramshackle village of car parts. Also Spain is a desert and the permafrost is melting. Humanity dodges a threat as bad as the Permian Extinction where the ocean fills with hydrogen sulfide, and methane hydrates fill the atmosphere. Even during the Qax occupation and under the Coalition rule, Earth’s sorry state of disrepair makes [[Terra|Holy Terra]] seem like a nice vacation spot by comparison. It’s overbuilt 10x time, inhabited with all sorts of grimy creepy creatures, and it's incredibly polluted. It state of misery and insanity will make the High Lords of Terra have a collective heart attack.
** This is just the beginning, Earth was not only stripped of its air and water by the ICoG, but also its entire iron core was sucked dry to the point that the planet's magnetic field nearly collapsed. The only reason it didn't collapse was due to the magnetic stations in low orbit that act as an artificial replacement of the long-gone magnetic field. There is literally no more volcanoes or earthquake anymore, even mountains eroded away completely, with Earth's mass shrinking to that of [[Mars]].
*The entire Human race has its culture and history destroyed by the Qax in order to pacify and turn them into useful slaves. Literally, we mean using nanites to kill plants and destroy fossil records. Qax blow bubbles into the bedrock called [[Hive World|Conurbations]] which are basically hive cities shaped like domes and absolutely MISERABLE to live in. 
**Oh did we forget to mention, Conurbations are meant as temporary structures. When the Qax left Earth, no new Conurbations could be built. This resulted in Conurbations becoming unlivable, fucking fantastic. 
**Humanity was completely uprooted of everything. Historical sites, culture, history, even languages were wiped out, the Qax even [[rape|cross-bred]] humans to remove all genetic markers that could give a clue about the origins of Mankind. There are literally no memories of peace or anything else pre-occupation. Even the archetypical hero's journey stories were also erased, and all that was left were the memories of misery, pain and suffering that led to the foundation of the ICoG.
*The Qax occupation deliberately altered the Earth's biosphere, causing mass extinction and pushing the human race on the brink of catastrophe. The Squeem on the other hand, dropped bio-engineered plagues to extirpate out a large segment of humanity's population, and froze the entire fucking oceans using electricity in a process called "polar cubic ice".
**The Qax leaving did not end happily for humanity. As seen above, the Qax were the ones who made new Conurbations, and also provided food to all the humans. People were homeless and starving on a global scale. When the ICOG's Green Army were forcing people to grow food in the nanite-fucked ground, they couldn't and anyone who questioned it got a date with a club to the face. Also, the Green Army deliberately withheld rations from the people.  
*Human traitors who sold out their race to the Qax are given genetic engineering to become immortal 'Pharaohs'. The immortality, however, is random especially for their children, as sometimes their kids are [[Loli|stuck being an]] [[Shota|8-year-old ''forever''.]] Or, in some cases, stopped growing in-utero, forcing the mother to commit an abortion.
*The Silver Ghosts also abducted humans to keep as samples for experiments. Alien Joseph Mengele, hurray. One of their subjects, labeled "five" was raised differently from humans. When she was extremely young, some human samples who broke into the facility had the audacity to subdue and rape her. What a warm welcome into humanity. 
*When the ICoG exterminated the Silver Ghosts, they kept some of their genetic samples so they could use their skin for augmented purposes. [[Flayed Ones|Ergo, they reduced an entire race into cosmetic farm animals to be harvested and the humans wear them as skin.]] This applies the same to any aliens exterminated by humanity.
**To provide further context, Humanity was actively ''skinning Silver Ghost babies'' in front of their parents to turn them into some [[Dark Eldar]]-levels of deprave utilitarianism (Solar Sails) just out of ''spite''. And later on, the active hunting and butchering of Silver Ghost refugees was considered as a 'family bonding experience' for Humanity. Do take note that this was the ''early ICoG'' where the family unit was still considered a thing, before shit went completely bonkers.
*Humanity went on a mass universal xenocide campaign before entering a 500,000-year siege in the Lanikea Galactic Supercluster. You'll be thankful when the Xeelee put an end to humanity's brutal curbstomping of every Xenos species. 
*The way the Xeelee exterminated humanity was unbelievably brutal, they planted a Xeelee Flower in every star and covered it in XCM (Xeelee Construction Material). While everyone froze to death, the Xeelee provided booths for humanity to escape into (because they aren't a bunch of fucking monsters, they were trying to stop humanity's murder-rampage), and a four-dimensional prison for them to rot in.
**Going on the theme of humanity's murder-rampage, they sent a Xeelee Nightfighter back in time to interrupt Michael Poole's wormhole project, and also kill humanity by firing thousands of diamonds which weigh several thousand tons. Michael drove the single nightfighter back to the galaxy's center with its tail between its legs, but the Nightfighter made sure that humanity would never spread throughout the galaxy and cause pain and misery for themselves and any other species, which the Xeelee was honestly right for doing.   
*When the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] stopped innovating, it's because of [[Fail|incompetence.]] When the ICoG stopped innovating it's because there's no point in this [[Grimdark]] future. It makes no difference if you send child soldiers or mechas against the Xeelee, because they'll kill you anyways, so they just send child soldiers because its cheaper. 
**Also, the Guild of Engineers are so gung-ho on standardization throughout the galaxy. That means technology stood static for tens of thousands of years. It doesn't matter anyways, because the Xeelee are capable of fucking up even the best technology a human can make. 
*Throughout the ICoG's history, the rate of interservice abuse was so extreme, that the commissaries (Their version of the Commissar) routinely [[Blam|beat their conscripts to death.]] [[Grimdark|Do take note that all these conscripts are ''children''. So expect a ''LOT'' of child abuse.]] It gets to the point of being borderline uncomfortable to read.  
**In the short story "Riding the Rock," the Interim Coalition of Governance took over a world and proceeded to condition the children into child soldiers. They took a school, which honestly was like Pol Pot's S-21, and forced the children to do unspeakable things: they beat them to death, forced them to fight, and tried to "breed out their emotions" to prepare them to fight the Xeelee. 
**Because the ICoG has time travel if you did an oopsie, every single variant of your past, present and future self will either be tortured to death or get a summary kicked to the jaw for a crime you have yet or have not commit. 
**One of the highest honours a parent would receive is if their child were to be inducted into what is effectively a child suicide bomber corp. 
**Hama Druz was a MASSIVE bitch to the highest degree. He organized a witch hunt on all the Jasofts and Pharaohs (human collaborators who served the Qax), even though they were the last ones who remembered Earth's history and only serving the Qax out of necessity. Hell, most Pharaohs were TRYING TO HELP HUMANITY DURING THE RULE OF THE QAX. Hama, being the racist twat, proceeded to exterminate every abhuman species which evolved in the universe. Needless to say, most human settlements were less-than-thrilled to join the Third Expansion. Also did we forget to mention, Hama Druz continued the Extirpation. The deliberate ''deletion'' of every bit of old data regarding pre-ICOG Earth, its biological record, and even intermingling human genotypes to prevent the re-emergence of divergent cultures or ethnicities. Just like how the Qax did, but per Druze’s words, to prevent humanity from being distracted by the past. This, on top of actively discouraging long-term planning among individuals, made the bulk of humans in the ICoG become cogs in a soulless war machine focused only on the present. All while claiming hypocritically that it’s an improvement for mankind. Honestly, WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
*Humans in the ICoG are indoctrinated by birth about the Druz Doctrine and, unlike the half-assed attempts of the Imperium or Galactic Empire to issue autocratic control, [[1984|the ICoG goes full 1984 and have near totalitarian surveillance right down to control of your timeline.]]
**In fact, the rate of indoctrination was so extreme, that even the ''thought'' of outright violating Coalition doctrine convinced one of the characters to nearly commit suicide out of ''pure instinct''. 
*When there is rebellious dissent breaking out, the Imperium uses the [[Adeptus Arbites]] and rarely, a small Crusade to crush them and retake the world. When there is even a ''potential'' tinge of sedition, the ICoG dump an entire moon with the population of tens of billions into a Gas Giant; [[Dick|just to make a statement.]]
*You'll be living in a barracks ball: a spherical conurbation where you live with your cadre of child soldiers, where you'll ride a Greenship straight to your death, or you'll live on a rock: a filthy and miserable environment where you'll work until you die by the hands of the Xeelee. So many children are expended, their names had to be etched on the wall via nanotechnology. Talk about literally becoming a statistic.  
*If you somehow manage to avoid being conscripted into the Green Army as a child soldier, then you will be living in a coalescence, a literal human ant farm built out of faeces with a million people crammed into a space the size of a city block. They make the underhive of a [[Hiveworld]] look pristine in contrast. 
**Coalescences half a million years later evolved into even more nightmarish versions, with humans preforming functions with their own bodies such as recycling air, recycling shit. Yes, we mean post-humans swimming in shit and converting it into food.  
**These nightmarish environments evolve wherever there is massive overcrowding and nowhere else to go. This can happen to any society, and evolved in Rome, Mars, and on a Xeelee structure called the "Wheel" which is a smaller dollar-store knockoff of Bolder's Ring.
*Many of the ICoG's child soldiers are bred from either vats or 'breeders' from Coalescences. [[NSFW|Breeders are human Martian females that are pumped with so many hormones and genetic engineering that their stomachs balloon-up with the number of babies they are carrying.]] [[FATAL|Breeders are essentially impregnated the moment they menstruate and continue the rest of their lives shitting out <s>babies</s> child soldiers until they expire.]] Human females in the Xeelee are reduced to birthing sows' [[Grimdark|Yes, this is state-sanctioned child rape.]] [[Daemonculaba]], eat your heart out.
*The ICoG forbids <u>ALL</u> forms of heroism as it runs counter to the Druz Doctrine and risks splitting humanity apart due to the dangers of individualism and egotism being a potential byproduct of heroic deeds. So if you wanna be a goody-two-shoes and save someone by ignoring orders like [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]] or sacrifice yourself for the greater good like [[WH40K|Sanguinius]], the ICoG would go back in time to arrest you, charge you and than [[Blam|execute you]] if you're the former, or erase your existence from history if you're the latter, or do both if they are feeling particularly spiteful today. Since the ICoG wants you to die like a bitch, they’ve made it absolutely certain that you will die like a <u>''BITCH''</u>.
*The ICoG's motto is "A brief life burns brightly". They mean it ''literally'', with the average lifespan of a human being measured 16 years of age at most, as the majority of humanity are child soldiers bred to die in the front lines. Combine with the mass state-sanctioned child abuse and child rape, the stripping of identity and the fact that the concept of the nuclear family is pretty much extinguished, you will die a brutal and ignoble death, a death which will be reduced to a statistic and quickly forgotten. They make even the callousness of a [[Death Korps of Krieg|Krieger]] and an [[Iron Warriors|Iron Warrior]] look like a bunch of woodland hippies in comparison.
**On average, the life of a Green Army soldier measured in just 1.7 missions before death, with 10 billion child soldiers dying each year. It was estimated that ''30 trillion'' child soldiers died in asteroid trenches surrounding the Milky Way's galactic core for over 20,000 years, just to get <u>''one''</U> Xeelee too fuck off.
*In one short story, during the Squeem Occupation (The first alien occupiers of Old Earth), a couple of human refugees decided to make a break for it. They modified an asteroid by putting a GUT-drive on it and turning it into a spaceship before escaping the Solar System. The Squeem took note of this and launched a GUT-missile that could tracked them, theoretically, '''forever'''. Since missiles have a better thrust-to-weight ratio, it would eventually catch up. In order to avoid being turned into stardust, the humans slowly increased their velocity, in which the missile would respond in kind, creating an intergalactic cat-and-mouse chase. The faster the ship travelled near light speed, the greater the G-force and inertia. Eventually, slowly but surely, [[Grimdark|the crew of that ship would experience every bit of their bones and organs slowly breaking by the crushing G-force.]] Some of the humans commit suicide whilst others uploaded their minds on a computer. Eventually, they manage to get rid of the missile via baiting it in a black hole's event horizon. Unfortunately, this is the Xeelee and Stephen Baxter knows his shit. The faster you go, the more extreme the time dilation. Ergo, once the humans finally got out of the chase, [[Grimdark|several million years have passed. By this point, the Photino Birds have won and they enter a dying Universe.]]
*In another short story, a Human crew encountered a derelict ship, whose hull is seemingly made out of [[Sons of Malice|human bones.]] Once they entered the ship, they realized that the ship was housing a community of degenerate humans that got lost in space. How did they survive for so long without any agriculture? [[NSFW|By turning their women into a literal food vending machine.]] [[FATAL|Yeah, turns out that the skeleton decoration on the ship's hull were actually ''baby bones'';]] [[Grimdark|they literally reduced infants into ration-packs and farmed meat produce.]]
**Baxter has a tendency for flesh-ships. Near the end of the novel "Raft", the main character gets exiled to the Boneys because nobody else would take him. Well, the Boneys are a fucking ''ball of flayed skins and skeletons'' floating in space. These people live in a mini world made of corpses, and eat discarded corpses from the Raft and Belt societies. The whole place smells like rotten corpses, and it's also described as absolutely filthy. 
**Keeping in theme with the flesh-ships, Spline ships are massive asteroid-like meatballs a few kilometers wide. It's said to feel like being swallowed, being in a Spline ship. 
*One of the ICoG's distant descendants, the Transcendence came to an endpoint, of which they concluded that humanity = suffering, and that it would instead reach into every timeline of every human that has ever existed, would exist, or could exist and just annihilate them; forcing every human who ever lived to experience all the pain and suffering of every other human who ever lived, over the course of quadrillions of relative years. They consider this as 'paradise'.
**A lot of the post-Coalition humans before the Transcendence was just as horrific, with gene wars on a galactic and universal scale being waged where entire human subspecies was created for the sole purpose of war; committing genocides amongst one another. You thought the gene wars from the [[Age of Strife]] on [[Terra]] was a clusterfuck? Wait till you read the Sequence. 
*Configuration Space from "Reality Dust" is a bunch of bacteria in the Callisto ice neurally and chemically communicating with each other to form a new universe: an island with a mountain of order, and a sea of entropy. This island seems pretty nice, but the ocean is all black and it melts whoever touches it by the power of entropy. There's a community of degenerate humans in this universe which are basically zombies. 
**A character was downloaded into this space, and started doing normal shit like eating the grass. She touched the water and melted her fingers off. She saw one of the "zombies" and explored the forest. There, she found even larger, more depraved zombies in the forest.
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