Pruning

Pruning refers to a practice associated with entities and civilisations that have gained complete dominance over their local multiverse or Pool of Possibility. 
== Description ==
Often, once an entity or civilisation gains complete control over their local multiverse, they will through one measure or another remove any possibility of a (hostile) peer rising from within their dominion. These measures can range from assimilation of any civilisations that reach a certain height, to guiding species through certain paths of development, to genocide or even outright omnicide and everything in between. 
The phenomenon has been given as an explanation for how the concentration of multiversal civilisations are lower than mathematically expected, as infinite multiverses and Pools of Possibility should in theory give rise to an infinite number of such civilisations within their locality. The practice of pruning is extremely widespread and indeed almost standard across many multiversal civilisations with complete dominance of their local multiverse. Such civilisations are also noted for their longevity; these civilisations tend to last indefinitely without outside inteference from peers or superiors originating from other Pools of Possibility or multiverses. 
In cases where multiple peer multiversal civilisations develop in a multiverse or Pool of Possibility there is a tendency for some form of equilibrium to be reached, especially in infinite multiverses/cosmologies where resources are no longer a problem. In situations where this balance of power is disrupted and conflict is sparked, however, the victors (if there are any by the end) often prune out any possibility for new competitors to arise. The other, often equally likely outcome, entails the complete destruction of all the combatants involved and/or the destruction of their local multiverse. The latter was the fate of the Rest, when Illdurata first awakened after her creation. 
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