THE NEBULIUM ARE MATERIALISING.. ..RISING

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Deep, deep down in the cavern, in phase in the out of phase domain, the air was fine but thick. Heavy laden with the persistent ionic charge from the metal mineral rock structure.

All but the most resilient of them had been driven insane. Those that had not succumbed were lead by a group of nine. The D'jinn. Like the Nebulium the D'jinn are humanoid. The D'jinn were humans, originally. And like the Nebulium the D'jinn's life time has been preserved and elongated by a combination of factors existing within the P7X 377 pyramid.

The Nebulium, in initio, had not considered that the biochemistry of their slaves would adapt to the living conditions within the pyramid so thoroughly. An adaptiveness which made them completely unsuitable for internal occupation. During four thousand years of evolvement deep within the catacombs, the Earthling's physiology found a way to process the heavy metal content of their environment. One of the by-products of this survival seems to be have been insanity.

All but a small number of slaves managed to harness the savage wildness that afflicted their population. The Nebulium name for these practically inept slaves is D'jinn. Most of the D'jinn are incapable of work. And their metal sodden chemistry makes them unusable as shells within which the Nebulium can traverse the StarGate's exotic object, its wormhole. The D'jinn nine, leaders of the insane, although seemingly controlled are actually quite psychotic.

Despite their highly advanced technology, were it not for the Nebulium' ability to phase, the D'jinn, living in such close quarters, would by now have defeated them with violence and bloody murder.

The Nebulium are now well aware that it was the continuous exposure to the metal weighted atmosphere thats all but demolished their work force. Rendering them useless but for one thing, food. The D'jinn have no knowledge as to the operation of the StarGate and the Nebulium are no longer able to use the bodies, shells of the D'jinn. Both groups are stranded in the pyramid. The Nebulium influence is eminently strongest through the use of militia technology and an unsavoury feeding program.

Although the Nebulium are solid state humanoids, they're capable of phase shifting. An ability they shared with the Ancients. However whereas the Ancient's ability came about from the natural evolution of their mental capacity and capability, the Nebulium are able to shift purely due to their chemical makeup.

Like the Ancients, the Nebulium can utilise the StarGate system. However because the Nebulium originate from a planetary system well outside our own Galactic Supercluster, they do have problems when it comes to the internal combustibleness of the properties of our breathable air. The Nitrogen content is much to high for them and over a period of not much time their internal systems become poisoned.

It was a good few thousand years before the Ancients, as a race, completely mastered their new ability, phase shifting. It was the natural progression of the human condition. Their condition. It arose as they, a peaceful, non aggressive race of humans, began to expand their minds literally. Presently the humans on Earth use a pitiful pittance of their available brain power. The Ancients on the other hand were charging their brain organs up at around eighty percent of available power. Their deployment of greater brain power unleashed a perception of the universe that as yet we, their progeny, can only but wonder.

The Ancients new ability was quite uncontrollable at first. They had no authority over when and where they would begin to phase shift.

Initially they engineered StarGate travel in a way that the existing protocols would not accommodate a phase shift occurrence in mid wormhole travel. If an Ancient began to phase shift between StarGates, their energetic signature would be altered and thus incapable of reconstitution to the initial code. They would be completely lost. Disrupted and dispersed.

The Ancients found a way to address this. They had already assigned an Eighth Chevron to allow them to travel extra galactically. By adding a further, a Ninth Chevron, they could adjust the conditions within the forming subspace corridor, essentially creating a corridor within a corridor. Ripping a tare. In this way should a travelling Ancient begin to phase shift mid Gate, whilst their demolecularised energetic signature would be altered, as they reached the destination white hole horizon, their altered signature would be rematerialised not to the initial code (which would neglect to take account of the altered state) that had been translated as they entered the StarGate, but instead they would in fact be reconstituted to the state they existed in as they entered the Ninth Chevroned corridor, this would account for any changes in signature that had occurred en route, and only then would they be remolecularised to the initial code that had registered as they entered the StarGate.

In this way the Ancients could travel by StarGate using a Ninth Chevron wormhole without threat or fear of being unable to reconstitute their anatomical patterns at the receiving Gate.

Travel via a Nine Chevron wormhole involves only one criterion. In order to get to where you're going you must first leave the system, the Milky Way, going extra-galactic via the Eighth Chevron (as incorporated in a Nine Chevron address) and then Gating back into the system to the original destination. The return journey would need to be just as round. Ah, obviously two criterion. You need to have to hand an exceptionally rare Nine Chevron StarGate address.

All StarGates can be accessed via the Ninth Chevron. All StarGates have a Nine Chevron address. Only two races are known to have deployed the Ninth Chevron. The Ancients and the Nebulium.

Having long since mastered their ability to shift, the Nebulium can, just as the Ancients, if they so desire, travel via Seven Chevrons. They have but one criterion to consider when using the StarGate system via Seven Chevrons. If they wish to travel inter-galactically in their raw, shell-less state, they will, in most instances, be subject to the lethally harmful (to them) atmosphere of the destination planet. To over come this obstacle the Nebulium seek organic shielding in the shape and form of a human shell. Once they have infected a human person, in order for them to then retain an undisrupted composition during StarGate travel, they must have the protection extended by the deployment of the Ninth Chevron.

No such protection is to be had during transportation, whilst occupying a shell, travelling via the Crystallo-system. E.g. Crystal Skull. If an infected human uses the Skull to transport, as in the case of Nicolas Ballard, the purifying properties of the crystallic system filter out everything except the natural atomic structure trying to pass through its faces. The Nebulium refer to this as 'low pass'. Presumably because the crystal acts as a low pass filter, allowing little to no superimpossed molecular impurities to pass through its system.

The Nebulium can of course travel via the Crystallo-system in their raw state. However once at the destination, intergalactic destination, unless they quickly find a shell to occupy (infect) they will fall victim to a lethal atmosphere. Air.

Nicolas Ballard unwittingly offered the Nebulium hope. When they first came to Earth, peoples were extremely isolated. Having exhausted the local populations the prospect of an alternative easy supply was not apparent. The resistance they met from other powerful races, along with a lack of easy supplies, convinced the Nebulium that Earth was not a resourceful asset.

The information that the Nebulium have extracted from Nicolas Ballard shows them that the planet Earth is now heavily infested with Homo sapiens and once again a ready supply of human shells is to be had. They also feel that the defeat they suffered on Earth more than a millennium ago is good reason to revisit the planet. The Nebulium are an exceedingly wicked and vindictive race.

"One of our fold, Wah Dar shigarom, is gone. Critically lost to us. Damaged by the low pass crystallo of a Crystal Skull. The Ballard will suffer. As will those around him."

"The Ballard spoke, their StarGate is very new."

"The Ballard spoke. Their StarGate is not new. It is old. Those humans, their intelligence is new."

"Perhaps they do not know how make it function it."

"Perhaps they do know. They brought themselves to us. Perhaps they do not know how to use it properly. That would take a long time."

"At when can we start to bring them? We need workers and we need food. This is what we need. It is a developing detriment."

"No it is not a developing detriment. We will start to bring them now. We can use them to replace the D'jinn."

"Perhaps to eliminate the D'jinn."

"Perhaps not to eliminate the D'jinn. We have been unable to eliminate their number. It is unlikely that beings of low intelligence will prosper where we have failed."

"It is unlikely."

"We are the strongest we have been since we left our home world."

"We are the strongest we have been since we left our home world. But because of the D'jinn's ability to completely assimilate into this environment, we are now without shells in which to traverse the StarGate system. Our access to other worlds is now extremely limited."

"Perhaps it is time to locate crystallo-systems on the human world Earth, through which we can gain entry. From the Ballard's words we will have unlimited shells to collect."

"Begin to locate crystallo-systems on the human world Earth. But ensure that the crystallo access is within a populated area, though not a directly populated area. If we transport into an area with few or no shells we will become trapped and we will be unable to survive, becoming victim of their inadequate atmosphere. If you locate a suitable access I will forward an advance squad to locate their centres of power and identify targets who may attempt to oppose our harvest."

"The Ballard's words told us that they have ships."

"The Ballard's words told us that they have ships. But these ships are inappropriate for us. The crawl along the gravity barrier. The ships we require must be suitable to travel within and without the galactic system in which we are confined."

"Perhaps the humans of Earth world will by now have advanced. Perhaps they will oppose us strongly."

"They will by now have advanced, but only in number. When we last harvested shells from that place it was evident that they would need a great many millennium in which to advance to a more intelligent degree."

"But what of the Engineers?"

"The Ballard's mind was vacant of the Engineers. The Engineers exist but they had already vacated that world so much farther before our last encounter."

"But they left their travel system in tack there. And they also returned to oppose us."

"They leave their travel system in tack everywhere. But they do not return everywhere. And they opposed us, but they did not oppose us alone. They have little interest in that place except to recognise it as their origin."

"As before they will be watching."

"As before they will be watching. But that place is their origin, they are always watching, but they do not watch very well. We will harvest."

"What of the Grey Hammer?"

"The Ballard one had no words of that one. The Grey Hammer exists but he has no interest in the human world."

"But he had interest when last we harvested."

"He had interest, but not in the humans. He had interest in our slaughtered, the Niflheim, and in ourselves."

"He may by now have interest in the human world."

"We are stronger now than ever before, since leaving our home world. We have made a great many developments. And much progress. Our confinement has concentrated our efforts on technical development. If the Grey Hammer appears we will break that one."

"What of the feathered Snake?"

"I am that one the Earthlings call feathered snake."

"What of the one that escaped? The Ballard did not make voice of that one."

"The snake that escaped was without feathers. The Zapoci. Those snakes will suffer much more greatly than previously. The one that escaped without feathers, all that kind, they will die. They isolated us, we will isolate them, from existence."

"The Ballard brought us good news. We will make ready to harvest."

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