Evolution Olympics

The Evolution Olympics are a competitive event that is organised every two million years in the Weave. Founded as a way to bring different civilisations and individuals together in a friendly competition, the games have served as a foot hold for many diplomatic ventures.

## History

Just after the Second Aeon War, when tensions were running high, those living in the Weave realised the need to have its constituent individuals and organisations form closer links with each other. Among the methods that would be implemented, a new series of multiversal games would be conducted, coming to be known as the Evolution Olympics.

The central members of the founding committee, consisting of the Transcend Oria, Godmind En'Ufe and the Old Brethren Entaia announced to the Weave the start of a series of multiversal games in 354 922, inviting all the civilisations in and many outside the great network to participate in the games. During the games, any and all conflicts between participating powers were to cease, to allow for a time of celebration and reprieve between different nations.

Later in that year, the games commended and the competition finally begun. The first winners of the games were individuals from a minor power known as the Corpus Triumvirate, to whom a universe was gifted, being the same one they had competed in.

The event was conducted every two million years, as a way for different powers to come together and bond.

## Rules

The Evolution Olympics have a series of rules that are enforced. Outside of rules concerning safety and friendly competition, the main ones that were always enforced were:

* No direct intervention from participants
* Participants may not utilise anything that is not provided by the competition itself
* No grudges will be held after the competition, and likewise no grudges from outside will be brought in

## The Games

Every game of the Evolution Olympics started out as follows.

All participants enter the universe where they are competing, whereupon they were allowed to select a habitat, be it a planet, asteroid, moon or some other celestial body. The passage of time within the universe where the competition takes place is accelerated to a rate that far exceeds that kept in the Weave Nodes by either a supervising Outer God or several multiversal civilisations. The contestants are then provided with some basic organic cells and a control module, from which they can control the genetics of the organisms and their offspring, all the way to any species that evolve from the resulting genetic manipulation. This control module is the only means by which the contestants are allowed to influence their charges, and the goal is to evolve a sapient species in as short a time as possible.

There are several other conditions before a contestant can be judged as victorious, including having a varied and diverse biosphere with at least several local ecosystems, a stable and sustainable ecological foundation and as few mass extinctions as possible. Once these conditions are met, a contestant may be judged victorious and be awarded the universe in which the competition took place, as well as any adjacent universes. Those who came in second and third receive a universe and several galactic superclusters worth of space respectively.

The current record (set during the eleventh Evolution Olympics) for the fastest evolution of a sapient species (with all conditions met) sits at 113 million years, by the contestant Setmoon, who created an intelligent species of colonial gestalt fungus on a planet with heavy volcanic activity.