Ing-Luminoth War: Difference between revisions

[[File:Sky Temple.jpg|350px|right|thumb|The Sky Temple, a result of the conflict between races.]]

==Events Leading To War==

During the [[Luminoth Golden Age|Golden Age]] of Luminoth discovery, technology, and culture, a [[Leviathan|stellar object]] had approached the race's home planet of Aether. <ref name="stellar object">{{cite|By the time we detected the stellar object as it streaked toward our world, it was too late to stop it. We fired numerous weapons at it in a vain attempt to alter its trajectory. Nothing worked. Our efforts placed a great strain on the Energy Controllers, and weakened Aether. All we could do as the object drew closer was take shelter and wait. We gathered stores of food and water, reinforced the shielding on our dwellings, and spent the last hours in peace.|[[Luminoth Lore]]-[[Luminoth Lore#The Stellar Object|The Stellar Object]]|Metroid Prime 2: Echoes}}</ref> The Luminoth had expected total destruction of the entire planet from the impact, as their weapons could not hinder the immense force of the meteor.<ref name="stellar object"/> Although the residents took shelter from the blast, most of the planet was completely ravaged, including the [[Agon Wastes|Agon Plains]] being completely scorched into a desert and the [[Torvus Bog|Torvus Forest]] becoming engulfed by the oceans to the point of becoming a bog.<ref>{{cite|The starborne terror burnt through the heavens and struck Aether with and untold might. We all expected the world to shatter...but Aether held. There was great devastation, however. The green plains of Agon were scorched forever, and the forest of Torvus was engulfed and wracked by the sea. The skies burned for days, casting darkness over the land.|[[Luminoth Lore]]-[[Luminoth Lore#Cataclysm|Cataclysm]]|Metroid Prime 2: Echoes}}</ref> What the Luminoth didn't realize was that the collision into Aether had caused the planet and many objects upon it to enter a state of dimensional flux, meaning that half of that object's total atomic structure was transported to an alternate dimension of the same formations as Aether's current form.<ref name="warped">{{cite|Amidst this turmoil, we discovered many anomalies. Spacial disturbances appeared across the land. Object went into a state of dimensional flux, their atoms divided between Aether and...somewhere else. There was little time to ponder these strange happenings, for we had to deal with the devastation of our lands.|[[Luminoth Lore]]-[[Luminoth Lore#The World Warped|The World Warped]]|Metroid Prime 2: Echoes}}</ref> While not much was known about the other world for a time, rifts began to appear from the torn planet, connecting the two lands for the first time.<ref name="attack">{{cite|The day came when space was torn asunder, revealing dimensional rifts to a dark place. Horrible dark swarms streaked forth from these rifts, engulfing nearby creatures and transforming them into what we could come to call darklings. The dark creatures became our enemies, and peace came to an end on Aether.|[[Luminoth Lore]]-[[Luminoth Lore#The Ing Attack|The Ing Attack]]|Metroid Prime 2: Echoes}}</ref> The first signs of a new race that had been formed in the alternate dimension were shown with almost no interruption.<ref name="attack"/> The creatures swarmed out of the rifts and used their unique ability on nearby forms of life.<ref name="attack"/> This ability allows the race to literally possess and take control of nearly any living thing, including the Luminoth.<ref name="attack"/> <ref name="terror">{{cite|In time, the Ing began to possess Luminoth as well as creatures. Friends and family members became the enemy, spilling Luminoth blood across the land. Desperate, we devised shielding to prevent Ing possession. It was effective, but not perfect. Should the shielding fail, all Luminoth were prepared to self-terminate rather than become a weapon for the Ing.|[[Luminoth Lore]]-[[Luminoth Lore#The New Terror|The New Terror]]|Metroid Prime 2: Echoes}}</ref> The possessed creatures, now known by the Luminoth as [[Darkling]]s, became the main threat and enemy to their kind and ended their state of peace, nearly until extinction.<ref name="attack"/>