On their
own the Eridaneans and Capelleans both achieved extended life spans and also
interstellar travel due to hyperdrive ships.
They
encountered one another and were thrilled at first to find other human beings
in the galaxy, they soon discovered that they clashed on ideological grounds
and became bitter enemies.
13,0000 years before the
present era both the Eridanean and Capellean civilizations achieved
interstellar flight, after hundreds of years of solar space flight. Their first
interstellar ships were sleeper ships.
Both were faced with the prospect that space
exploration would take millennia, and turned all their technology to developing
techniques to extending their lifespans and making
the distances of interstellar flight shorter. Eventually the Eridaneans
successfully created a nano-virus that would
constantly renew the body. It had an effectiveness of a thousand or so years
before the nanites ceased functioning and began
acting as free radicals. Shortly after the successful creation of the Eridanean
longevity serum, a Capellean scientist created a hyperdrive
vessel.[5]
Approximately 8,500 years ago the Capelleans
discovered an Eridanean long-range sleeper ship. Capellean scientists were
stunned to discover that except for slight genetic differences the Eridaneans
were as human as they.[6] The Capelleans toasted the awakened
Eridaneans as heroes and returned them to their home world with great
anticipation. In The Great Exchange Capellean and Eridaneans traded information
and technologies with the hope of forming a galactic civilization.
After the Eridaneans and Capelleans had exchanged
technologies they made an attempt to create an interstellar alliance. This is
when the great differences between the Capelleans and Eridaneans came to
light. Each civilization had a distinct
ideological base, so incompatible it seemed that they could not find any middle
ground for compromise. Although both civilizations had had created social
utopias with common patterns of development from tribal beginnings,
consolidation into communities and kingdoms, period of feudalism and imperial
conquest, then nationalist republican government they had diverged enough to
have dissimilar ideologies.
The Capelleans had a social revolution early in
their period of republicanism that eradicated all traces of Kings and
Aristocracy. They ruled by Council in a Democratic-Communistic society, which
had as its main flaw that they individual became subservient to the State. Tyranny by Simple Majority as administrated by the Council of
Elders.
The Eridaneans began their Republican period with a
constitutional monarchy in which the landed peoples elected their King. As this tended to lead to dictatorial behavior on the part of the
King, the period of elections was shortened and the franchise was broadened.
After devastating world wars at the outset of their
atomic period, both the Capelleans and Eridaneans achieved world government
with peace and prosperity. They conquered disease, poverty and to an extent
death.
The Eridaneans had become individualistic
Libertarians by the time of their space exploration period while the Capelleans
were Communal Libertarians. After several devastating incidents while
colonizing populated planets, both set up a strict non-interference policy, yet
this became more ceremonial than real when the Capellean and Eridanean
interstellar holding began abutting one another.
After a few years, the ideological and cultural
differences between the two civilizations was considered too significant and
they abandoned plans for a unified culture
During their initial period of space exploration
and expansion the two civilizations came into conflict and this conflict
escalated into several interstellar wars. As a consequence of this deep enmity
even when both parties were stranded on Earth they could not come to any sort
of equitable arraignment whereby they could communicate, exchange information
or trade for the purposes of leaving the Earth.
On the
border between their two respective interstellar civilizations was a planet
that was rich in the power crystals used to fuel their hyperdrive
vessels. A bitter war was fought over the planet until it was decided by truce
to share the planet. The problem was that the planet was composed of a high
degree of crystal; the power crystals in fact grew here. Mining had to be done
carefully, without destroying the newly forming crystals. Therefore human
beings had to do the mining. The problem, though, was the planet itself,
because the combination of high gravity, thin air, and destructive solar
radiation caused a 90% fatality rate among the miners. The planet was named Kryp'Tn,
the Crystal World.
8,000 years before the present era in a
dispute over this crystal world the first Eridanean and Capellean war
broke out. The war was costly but only lasted a few years. A truce was signed.
Approximately one thousand years later, the
Capellean/Eridanean truce was broken by the Eridanean indoctrination of a
Capellean colony. The Second Capellean/Eridanean war broke out. Again the war
was short but costly. Capellean scientist Marra[7]
convinced the Capellean hierarchy to use clone drones to populate mining colonies
and other necessary but dangerous outposts. Clone drones were clones of
Capelleans and Eridanean prisoners but genetically altered for mental capacity
and emotional stability. They were also not candidates for the longevity serum.
Marra began to suffer from early longevity serum
decay. He had himself cryogenically frozen in the hopes that a cure will
eventually be found. Fifty years later Marra was
discovered still living and conducting unauthorized experiments on clone drones
in an attempt to create true immortality. The experiments included tampering
with clone drone's consciousness and giving them the longevity serum. He was
sentenced to actual cryonic suspension
In a
dispute over borders the Third Capellean/Eridanean war broke out. This took place
approximately 6,000 years ago. It was becoming almost a ritual for the truce to
end every thousand years.
In the
midst of this Capellean/Eridanean War, a clone rebellion broke out. In response
to this Og[8],
a violent cult formed. Og
believed that clones were soulless creatures that had broken natural law by
their rebellion. The cult's response to the rebellion was to destroy all
clones. They did this in the most sadistic and violent methods that they could
devise. The Capellean Council of Nine voted to remove the Ogs
as they were called from Capellean society forever. They were sent to the Phantom
Zone.
Because clones were so instrumental during the war,
the Capelleans granted clones a few rights. They were no longer genetically
altered for diminished mental capacity, they could earn a wage and after fifty
years of servitude could live out their lives where ever they wished. However
they were not allowed to receive the longevity serum nor to procreate.
The Fourth Capellean War broke out nearly one
thousand years after the last one. No records exist however as to the reason
for this particular war. The Capelleans used a biological weapon that had an
unfortunate effect on a portion of the Eridanean population. They became violently
addicted to sex. If the sufferers were denied sexual outlet they resorted
to rape and murder. Even physical and chemical castration did not work.
The Erideanean Council of Nine offered the victims a
choice of exile to the Phantom Zone or death. The disease was called Toc[9]
and its victims became known as the Tocs.
The next two thousand years is called the Millennia
of Life by the Capelleans and Eridaneans. There was not a Capellean/Eridanean
war because two Capellean scientists discovered a way to end the millennium bug
in the longevity nanites. The treatment was flushed
of the nanites, allowed to age for seven years so
that the cells underwent a complete change and then the nanites
were reintroduced to the body. The plan was considered risky because during the
seven year period without the nanites disease and
minor injuries could kill the person. While living on a Capellean mining colony
Marra devised a secondary treatment using a different
set of self-destructing nanites that sped up the
aging process. He discovered that anything less than 7 years in six months was
fatal. His discovery was hailed until revelations surfaced that he had
conducted tests on clones, killing hundreds. A clone rebellion spread
throughout the Capellean hierarchy. After losing the clones were stripped of
their few rights and became virtual slaves. Marra was
sentenced to have his system flushed of nanites and
to die the natural death. He faked his own death and got a position as a
military scientist, thinking to use his process as a weapon in the next war.
The Capellean and Eridanean continued a peaceful
co-existence until tradition minded citizens of both societies clamor for
another millennial war. In 3,000 BP the fifth Capellean/Eridanean war occurs.
It was at first a symbolic war, using ritualized battle plans, single combats,
and ship duels. Capellean forces were stunned when the Eridaneans used atomic
weapons to destroy a Capellean mining colony.[10]
Military scientist Marra convinced the Capellean hierarchy
to use his new bio-bombs. They tested these on three Eridanean colonies. The
bio-bombs were filled with aging nanites, which sped
up the clock on the longevity nanites so that they
expire. A secondary component of the bio-bombs released a virulent plague.
The war escalated, crippling both civilizations. As
he created more virulent plagues, Marra stumbled on a
nanite formula that reversed cell death, which
eliminates death if applied within a suitable amount of time. He kept the
secret for himself.
The Eridaneans fomented another clone rebellion
inside the Capellean system and use this advantage to win this war. Marra was declared a war criminal and sentenced to die. He
substituted a clone for himself and escaped.
After the mutually destructive war, the Eridaneans
and Capelleans agreed to the Truce of Orion, arbitrated by the Organians[11].
They agreed to a peaceful coexistence.
In 2,000 B P the Eridanean discovery of Earth was
paralleled by the Capellean invention of short distance matter transportation
technology. The 7th Capellean/Eridanean war was cancelled as both species sign
the Treaty of Orion to set up separate but equal facilities to study this newly
discovered planet filled with humans. They were also surprised to discover
traces of Sirian and Arcturian
visitations before them as well as the Obelisks of the Firstborn[12].
Now living under another name Marra planned for the
future setting in motion plans that wouldl have a
profound impact on galactic history.
Both the Capelleans and the Eridaneans were amazed
to find another species that was biologically identical to them, so they
allotted time for extensive study. The primitive humans were an opportunity to
test theories of social evolution.
Both civilizations sent a Mothership
designated as long term survey ship but with battle capabilities. Both set up
lunar bases and a small satellite system. The satellite systems were programmed
to self-destruct once the populace below had achieved manned orbital
capabilities.[13] After the Eridaneans and Capelleans set up their observation
satellite systems, their lunar bases and their orbital motherships.
A representative of the Organians visited them and
told them in no certain terms that they may observe the earth but could not
under any circumstances interfere in its development. Marra
was elated by this development for it fit very nicely into his plans.
Marra arranged to be
transferred to the Capellean earth observation team. There he set in motion
what he hoped would culminate in his ultimate goal, to have an entire planet
with a human population to use in his genetic and social experimentation
without interference from anybody. Once on the team he began illicit
experimentation on earth human subjects.
In 857 A.D. bio-bombs that Marra
had seeded through the Capellean and Eridanean systems bombarded the home
worlds and major colonies of both civilizations. His intent was to cause both
civilizations to accelerate their technology while he was gone. As a bonus they
would also be much too busy to worry about the survey teams on earth. However Marra had inadvertently set in motion the destruction of
both civilizations
The Eridanean and Capellean Earth observation teams
received subspace reports that the Truce of Orion had ended and hostilities had
resumed. Both survey motherships signaled each and
began a ceremonial duel
In a seeming blatant act of treachery the Capellean
ship fired while the Eridanean ship made its turn. Although the Capelleans
believed this was due to an apparent malfunction Marra
had set the firing controls to fire preemptively. The Eridanean mothership was destroyed but most of its crew was already
aboard life pods. Prior to being hit the Eridanean mother ship sent off a
torpedo that crippled the Capellean mothership, which was also abandoned
Valiantly the scientist Marra
was one of the last to leave the Capellean ship. In reality the damage to the Capellean ship
although extensive was not crippling. The Eridanean torpedo had in fact never
been fired, Juro caused the
ship's damage by rigged explosions. When Marra stayed
behind on the crippled ship, he set up transport systems planning to use the
crude transport technology to make trips between the mother ship and earth and
the lunar base. This transport technology was demonstrated in The Other Log
of Phileas Fogg. The ship was put in a decaying
orbit, which caused portions of it to break off and enter the earth's
atmosphere at infrequent intervals; the largest and final piece hit the Earth’s
surface in Siberia in 1908.[14]
A Capellean pod landed off the coast of California and an
Eridanean pod landed in near present day Chile. An
Eridanean pod landed near the Caspian Sea and a
Capellean pod near the Sea of Japan.
Capellean pods landed in the Adriatic, Lake
Victoria, and the Red Sea.
Eridanean pods landed in the English Channel, Strait of Gibraltar and
the North Sea. The
last Capellean pod landed in the Ionian Sea and
the last Eridanean pod landed in the Ligurian Sea. These
landings were not random but made because the crews of the pods resembled the
natives in those areas.
Although the majority of Capelleans and Eridaneans
stayed hidden while waiting for rescue, so as not to violate the
Non-Interference Edict, the renegade Capellean scientist, Marra
continued his unauthorized experiments on the native human population.
By 1000 A.D. the Eridanean civilization had
collapsed as the entire population was wiped out a plague caused by a
combination of two bio-bombs. The plague also spread to the Capellean system
where only 2% of the population were immune. The
Capelleans slid into barbarism. The Starship Enterprise visited Capella IV, the inhabitants had
reverted to total nomadic barbarism.[15]
After living among the Earth people for a century without
rescue and retrieval, both the Capelleans and Eridaneans realized that either
the war was not going well or that they had been forgotten. The survivors of
the landings in both races formed a Council, which kept in contact thorough
communication devices implanted in their ears and larynxes, sent through
satellites. Each voted to abandon the Doctrine of Non-Interference to advance
the feudal Earth Natives to a space faring culture as quickly as was feasible
and to also indoctrinate the Earth culture with the correct ideological
foundation to make them allies in the war against the enemy. They were also to
thwart the enemy's attempts to advance and indoctrinate the natives. Due to the
lack of the universal hormone Eridanean and Capelleans remained infertile to
each other but were sometimes fertile within their own species and with the
native human population. Females of both species were the primary targets of
the secret war as were those undergoing the seven year period when the
longevity serum was ineffective.
Each group chose a council of nine leaders to lead
the process advancing the technology and indoctrination of the
Earthlings. Both Councils of Nine became legendary among the Earth people
and were fictionalized in mythologies works among them Talbot Mundy's Nine Unknown.
As a means of extending their influence among the
earth natives, the Eridaneans and Capelleans adopted Terran
natives and trained them to think of themselves as Eridaneans or Capelleans.
They also welcomed worthy adult members into their organization binding all
with promises of immortality.
However, neither the Eridaneans
or Capelleans were entirely truthful to their adoptees.
They gave the natives a form of the longevity process that was used on clones
when they were servants. A forty year activation was
encoded into the nanite programming for the Earth
human Capellean and Eridanean adoptees. This way the
True Races, the Capellean and the Eridaneans are kept immortal in their
prime and the Earthlings allowed to age past their primes and then become
immortal. It was a form of control over the adoptees.
The Capelleans and Eridaneans created highly
structured organizations during their few hundred years of living on the planet
but the conflict between them took its toll. They made little progress in
speeding up the advance of the Earth’s technological progress.
In 1873 the Capellean-Eridanean war on earth
apparently climaxed during the “Around the World in 80 Days”
incident when the last Elder of both the Eridaneans and Capelleans purportedly
died.[16]
Rather, the core groups of both surviving Elders,
became determined to work even more behind the scenes. They feared that the
recent advances of earth technology, accomplished without Capellean or
Eridanean help, had reached the point that it could be combined with stolen
alien technology to create primitive space vessels. Being still socially
primitive ethnocentrics, the earthlings could see the
Capellean and Eridanean efforts to aid them as hostile actions and could turn
against them and their Families. Their fears were well founded, for a few years
later Bedford and Cavor traveled to the moon in a
primitive vessel.[17]
The few remaining Elders seemed to have lost heart
as the last vestige of their great civilizations was destroyed in 1908.
The all but destroyed Capellean Mother ship's final impulse engine finally
failed and sent it into an orbit that impacted on Earth. The remnants of the
Mother ship landed in the Tunguska province of Siberia,
causing what amounted to a nuclear explosion.